Senior Quality Associate - Compliance

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Our purpose is to guide all companies toward a sustainable world. EcoVadis is the leading provider of business sustainability ratings. Our solutions are backed by an international team of experts and powerful technology. We analyze data and build sustainability scorecards that give companies actionable insights into their environmental, social and ethical risks. 

Why apply to EcoVadis? Be a part of the global sustainability change in business. Grow your career. Work with extraordinary people. Feel valued for your contribution.

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As part of our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and aligning with the evolving regulatory landscape, we are seeking a Senior Quality Associate-Compliance. This role is critical in strengthening our Evaluation Services (EVS) Quality Assurance framework specifically within the context of ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority) regulations, including the ESG Rating Regulation (EU 2024/3005) and other potential ESG raters regulations in other jurisdictions (e.g. UK, Japan).

The Senior Quality Associate-Compliance will support the deployment of the EVS Quality roadmap, ensuring our assessment methodologies and internal controls meet stringent European transparency and integrity standards. You will be a key guardian of our compliance posture, helping to track mandatory KPIs and communicate regulatory requirements to the broader EVS team.

To maintain the highest standards of integrity, your responsibilities include:

• Licensing & Audit Readiness: Actively liaise with stakeholders to centralize compliance data for the ESMA license process and ensure constant audit readiness.

• Respond to ESMA Oversight function’s needs for information.

• Policy Management: Update and communicate compliance policies, manuals, and procedures to reflect current regulatory shifts.

• Training & Awareness: Maintain up-to-date training content, track mandatory participation/declarations, and raise general compliance awareness within the EVS team.

• Corrective Actions: Manage and follow up on action plans resulting from internal or external regulatory audits.

• Performance Tracking: Help track mandatory KPIs and communicate regulatory requirements across the organization.

• Any other activities related to EVS compliance to ESG regulations

To be successful in this role, candidates should demonstrate a blend of technical regulatory knowledge and robust analytical skills:

Technical Expertise & Experience

• Compliance Experience: Previous experience in a compliance-related function

• Regulatory Knowledge: Deep understanding of Quality Assurance frameworks and experience with regulatory audit preparation and documentation . Advantage: conversant with ESMA-related regulations, specifically ESG Rating Regulation (EU 2024/3005).

• Data Analysis: Strong ability to analyze complex data sets to identify trends, gaps, and areas for process improvement.

• Audit Management: Proficiency in managing documentation for internal and external regulatory audits.

Core Professional Skills

• Communication: Good  interpersonal and presentation skills, with the ability to interact effectively with diverse global stakeholders.

• Problem-Solving: Strong organizational skills with a proven ability to solve problems independently in a fast-paced environment.

• Language: Full professional fluency in English (both oral and written).

• Ethics: A high level of integrity and a commitment to maintaining transparency standards.

• AI Fluency: Ability to use AI tools (such as Gemini, Claude) to review regulatory updates, draft preliminary compliance summaries, and automate routine monitoring tasks. 

Location: Ebene, Mauritius

Starting date: Asap

Position: Permanent (after 6 months probation)

Everyone at EcoVadis contributes to a culture of trust, respect and empowerment. Our growing team in Mauritius is full of talented professionals from various fields who all share a desire to make an impact. We offer competitive salaries and support personal growth from day one with extensive onboarding, mentoring and a brand new e-learning platform bursting with courses and modules so you can learn new skills and fine-tune old ones.

In return for your expertise, we offer:

• Support with all the necessary office and IT equipment

• Flexible working hours

• Wellness allowance for mental and physical wellbeing

• Access to professional mental health support

• Referral bonus policy

• Learning and development 

• Sustainability events and community involvement

• Peer recognition program

• Employee-led resource groups

• Travel/Vacation Grant allowance

• Transportation and Parking Allowance

• Annual performance bonus

• Remote work from abroad policy

• Career Growth Management 

• Hybrid work organization

• Pension contributions and optional private health coverage

• Internet and electricity bill allowance 

• Community service day when volunteering

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your CV, in English, with a guaranteed response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you!

Don’t meet all criteria? Please apply anyway. We welcome diverse candidates and want to assess your skills and potential contribution to EcoVadis, regardless of your background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want all candidates, including people with disabilities, people with long-term health conditions, and neurodiverse applicants, to feel confident demonstrating their potential. If you require adjustments, such as interview questions in advance, please inform the hiring team.

Our team’s strength comes from everyone’s uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity, inclusion and reducing bias in our hiring processes. EcoVadis does not accept any form of discrimination based on characteristics such as color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, parental status, or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique. To reduce bias in hiring, applicants are encouraged to remove personal details such as photos, marital/parental status, religion, gender, postal code, university name/graduation date, past leave details, and nationality (instead, confirm eligibility to work in the job location).

Our recruitment processes do not include AI systems that make autonomous decisions impacting individuals’ rights without human oversight. Inputs and outputs of the system have been validated by humans and answers are based on algorithms that analyze previous data with which the system has been trained. We use SmartRecruiters as our applicant tracking system and to schedule interviews. Gemini is used to summarize notes from interviews and to refine job descriptions and social media messaging. AssessFirst is used to support talent assessment decisions.