Legal Compliance Specialist - Remote

Legal Compliance Specialist - Remote

Key Relationships

• General Counsel, North America

• Functional team leaders or their representative (eg. Finance, HR, IT, Marketing & Innovation, Legal & M&A, etc.)

• Franchise relations leader

• Director, Legal, Labor and Employment, North America

Job Summary

The Compliance Specialist will conduct regular audits, surveys and investigations of company policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the permanent injunction issued to Terminix relating to its franchise obligations, with relevant legal obligations  and minimizing risk to the organization. The role will also partner with HR and Marketing to understand the changing compliance rules and laws within the jurisdictions which we operate. The role will ensure compliance related to legacy franchisees and regulatory compliance.  

Key Performance Indicators 

• Ensured compliance maintained from federal, state, and local jurisdictions

• Number of audits and surveys performed year over year

• absence of violations

• Functional Partner awareness of compliance obligations

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Partner with functional partners so they are aware of legal requirements 

• Perform audits to measure partner adherence against those requirements

• Support the risk and compliance team to ensure the company remains in compliance from federal, state, and jurisdiction perspectives

• ensure compliance in ancillary projects (I-9 compliance, telemarketing, ect…)

• Develop training content for colleagues who are operating in franchise territories

• Occasionally serves as subject matter expert for regulatory requirements and ensures locations and employees are following franchise

• support compliance across the enterprise as needed

CANDIDATE SUMMARY

Required Experience

• 3 years of related experience and/or training in an audit or compliance role. experience working with telemarketing, marketing, HR, and legal a plus 

• Prior experience in enterprise risk management a plus

• Attention to detail and analytical skills

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret government regulations and franchise agreements

Formal Education, Qualifications or Training

• High School Diploma Required, Bachelors Preferred 

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential function to this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Incumbent must be prepared to:

• Move up to 10 pounds occasionally, by lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or otherwise repositioning objects.
• Sitting for long periods of time while using office equipment such as computers, phones and etc.
• Fingering and Repetitive motions; such as movement of wrists, hands and fingers while picking, pinching and typing during your normal working environment.
• Express or exchange ideas with others through the use of spoken word, quickly, accurately, and at an easily audible volume, and receive detailed information through oral communication at usual speaking levels without correction, and/or make fine discriminations in the nature of sounds in the environment.

Incumbent is required to have:

• Close visual acuity to perform detail-oriented activities at distances close to the eyes, as well as visual acuity to perform activities at or within arm’s reach with skill, control, and accuracy, such as preparing and analyzing data, viewing computer screen and expansive reading.

Incumbent will be subject to:

• Inside working conditions: The change of building environment such as with or without air conditioning and heating.

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