Compliance Specialist - Operations & Risk

About the role

As a key member of EQT's Compliance Operations & Risk team, the Compliance Specialist will provide direct execution support across sanctions monitoring, LNG & LPG counterparty compliance, control testing, and program metrics. This role is responsible for maintaining scalable, consistent throughput on high-volume, recurring compliance obligations, including conducting counterparty risk reviews, executing sanctions screenings, performing control effectiveness testing, and delivering metrics and reporting that support EQT's growing LNG & LPG strategy and maturing Compliance Control Testing program.

Responsibilities

• Execute Know Your Customer (KYC) reviews, including Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), for LNG & LPG counterparties and materially important suppliers.
• Run sanctions pre-screens against restricted-party lists ahead of new counterparty relationships, and maintain the ongoing monitoring queue to flag and escalate potential matches.
• Execute routine control tests across regulatory, ethics, and sanctions programs under defined methodologies, coordinating with other compliance program managers to ensure effective testing.
• Gather and organize supporting documentation for testing and audits, and track deficiencies and remediation actions to resolution.
• Administer intake, logging, and triage of compliance cases, maintaining case management systems for completeness, accuracy, and audit readiness.
• Maintain compliance dashboards, trackers, and health/instrumentation metrics, and research emerging risk inputs and trends to support risk posture and repeat-issue analysis.
• Prepare agendas, materials, and minutes for Compliance Councils, committee meetings, and select Board-level updates.
• Support cross-functional coordination with Legal, Enterprise Risk Management, Internal Audit, and business operations.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, standardization, and scalability of recurring compliance obligations, and support implementation of compliance tools and process documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
• 0–3 years of experience in compliance, risk, audit, legal, or related field.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working in data, spreadsheets, and reporting tools.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including preparing materials for leadership and governance forums.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with compliance concepts such as sanctions screening, KYC/EDD, and control testing.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills, with comfort managing multiple concurrent cases and deadlines.
• Ability to follow structured, defined processes while identifying opportunities for improvement.
• High integrity and sound judgment in handling sensitive and confidential information.

Schedule

Remote work is being considered for this role excluding the following states: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, and Tennessee unless willing to relocate.