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Job Function:
Legal & ComplianceJob Sub Function:
Enterprise ComplianceJob Category:
ProfessionalAll Job Posting Locations:
Bogotá, Distrito Capital, ColombiaJob Description:
Title: Risk & Compliance Specialist
Department Name: Risk & Compliance
Location: Bogota
Geographic Scope of Responsibility: Global
Position Summary
Risk & Compliance Specialist will perform the regulatory assessment on the Third-Party Due Diligence landscape. Will be responsible for working closely with Law Departments, Procurement teams, among other cross-sector units for the proper identification, elevation, and development of action plans for alerts as well as support the strengthening of the compliance program to ensure JNJ is compliant with legal requirements and regulators expectations.
Major Duties & Responsibilities
Third-party due diligence (60%)
- Support GS Risk & Compliance to ensure that Sanctions issues identified are properly documented, discussed, and escalated as per Sanctions, AML, ABC procedure / SOP
- Perform follow-ups with business owners, procurement, and key stakeholders to actions plans defined to mitigate risks identified Perform the AML + ABC Due Diligence for all new suppliers before its activation in the Vendor Master Data & existing suppliers by following a risk-based approach
- Conduct periodic external reviews about current regulations on sanctions, AML + ABC, and potential impacts on JNJ due diligence processes.
- Maintain close relationships with Legal departments to review red flags identified during due diligence processes for suppliers.
- Consolidate, review, and monitor sanctions, AML + ABC DD results for low, medium & high-risk alerts.
- Provide guidance and support from a regulatory perspective about red flags identified
- Perform the Periodic Screening Check (Quarterly/Annually) to identify Sanctions red flags on the supplier database.
- Send periodic communications to key stakeholders about action plans and alerts review status.
- Partner with risk functions to ensure proper management, maintenance, and deployment of global compliance processes at the regional level.
Risk Mitigation (40%)
- Escalate issues identified related to AML, ABC, and Sanctions to discuss and establish an effective action plan that will mitigate the risk
- Regulatory risk landscape reviews to maintain updated current regulations map
- Support procurement requestors by providing guidance on the documentation required to conduct the Due Diligence process
- Support Internal Audit and Regulatory Agencies on any documentation required in case Due Diligence evidence is required by them
Other Duties & Responsibilities
- Seek to continuously learn and improve knowledge and skills by identifying developmental opportunities with the supervisor. Participate in appropriate training sessions and share lessons learned. Competently apply knowledge of new skills learned to existing projects and work.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Finance, Compliance, Regulatory, HCC, and other risk functions
- Drive continuous improvement and identify areas of opportunity
- Partnership and cross-collaboration with all regions LATAM, EMEA, NA, and ASPAC to develop a teamwork spirit, share best practices, and suggest process improvements as needed on the Supplier Due Diligence process
- Demonstrates an understanding of AI concepts and frameworks, including awareness of responsible and ethical AI practices, and has experience generating effective prompts to boost efficiency and productivity.
Required Qualifications
- Required Minimum Education: bachelor's degree in Law, Political Science, or related social sciences.
- Required Years of Related Experience: +2 years
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Key skills include:
- Advanced English skills to communicate with peers and key stakeholder globally.
- Knowledge of sanctions, AML and ABC, ethics, Supplier/3rd party Due Diligence, and related topics.
- Good written and oral communication skills and an ability to present and interact with the highest level of business leaders; Ability to build strong business partnerships
- Possess two years of work experience managing Suppliers assessment, Audit, Compliance roles, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely across all levels of the company.
Travel on the Job: N/A at this moment
Preferred Qualifications
- Preferred Minimum Education: bachelor's degree in Law, Political Science, or related.
- Preferred Area of Study: Law or related field is required
- Preferred Related Industry Experience (if applicable): Preferred experience in a support function with a comprehensive understanding of compliance, audit, and regulatory landscape.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Regulatory background and expertise assessing regulatory risk
- Knowledge of Procurement processes.
- Results-driven achiever with exemplary planning and organizational skills, along with a high degree of detail orientation.
- Innovative problem-solver who can generate workable solutions and resolve complaints.
- Exceptional listener and communicator who effectively conveys information verbally and in writing.
- Change management experience preferred including impact assessments, stakeholder analysis, communication planning/delivery, etc.
- Experience and exposure to Global and matrix organizations are preferred.
- The candidate must have strong analytical problem-solving and interpersonal skills, leadership, influencing, and presentation skills. Must be able to work under pressure achieving consistently high results through individual and team efforts.
Key Working Relationships
- Internal: Law, Quality, Finance, Audit, Compliance, End Users, Technology (STA), Affiliate and Procurement Leadership, Category Procurement, Region Procurement; Sector Procurement.
- External: Suppliers, Outsourced Providers, Regulatory agencies.
Decision Making Authority: Plans work of others; Reviews work quality and quantity of others.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Audit and Compliance Trends, Audit Management, Audit Reporting, Business Behavior, Business Writing, Coaching, Communication, Compliance Management, Critical Thinking, Detail-Oriented, Legal Function, Legal Services, Office Administration, Problem Solving, Regulatory EnvironmentSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Law, Political Science, or related social sciences.
- Minimum 2 years of related experience in supplier assessment, audit, or compliance roles.
- Advanced English skills for global communication.
- Knowledge of sanctions, AML, ABC, and supplier/third‑party due diligence.
- Experience performing AML and ABC due diligence and periodic screening checks.
- Ability to present to and build partnerships with senior business leaders; strong written and oral communication.
- Knowledge of procurement processes and supporting procurement requestors (preferred).
- Understanding of AI concepts, responsible AI practices, and experience generating effective prompts (preferred).
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