Senior Analyst, Compliance
Invenergy · Chicago, IL · Yesterday
Legal$82k–$98k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Formalize and streamline corporate compliance monitoring, risk assessment, and reporting activities to evaluate program effectiveness, identify emerging risks, and assess adherence to internal policies, legal requirements, and regulatory expectations.
- Develop and maintain compliance risk registers, monitoring plans, dashboards, trackers, and management-ready reports that provide visibility into key Compliance activities, trends, issues, and priorities.
- Analyze and validate compliance source data, reporting outputs, and process trends to identify recurring issues, outliers, control weaknesses, remediation needs, and opportunities for deeper review or escalation.
- Partner with subject matter experts, and cross-functional stakeholders to gain information, gather status updates, advance improvement efforts, and track corrective actions through timely closure.
- Document key observations, recommendations, and follow-up actions in clear, practical reports that translate compliance activity into actionable insights for Compliance leadership and other stakeholders.
- Prepare management-ready reports, dashboards, and summaries for executive and senior management review, with guidance and oversight from Compliance leadership.
- Support data privacy and protection activities by coordinating with various stakeholders to address technology and security compliance requirements, such as GDPR, LGPD, and domestic state law requirements.
- Contribute to evolving initiatives, special projects, and cross-functional efforts as needs change, taking ownership of discrete workstreams and building new skills, subject-matter knowledge, and leadership capability over time.
Process Improvement & Automation
- Identify and help advance practical opportunities to leverage approved technology, automation, analytics, and AI-enabled tools to improve workflow efficiency, reporting quality, data integrity, issue tracking, and scalable Compliance internal operations.
- Lead the mapping of recurring Compliance workflows to identify where manual steps, duplicative data entry, inconsistent handoffs, or unclear ownership create inefficiency or control gaps.
- Document decision trees, or internal procedures instill consistency while evolving with Compliance processes and making them easier to execute, monitor, and improve over time.
- Translate Compliance needs into practical technology use cases by defining business requirements, expected outputs, data inputs, user roles, and success criteria for automation or analytics-enabled solutions.
- Help execute testing, validation, documentation, and responsible scaling of approved automation, analytics, and AI-enabled approaches that reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and strengthen monitoring and reporting.
- Apply responsible technology governance considerations, including data quality, confidentiality, privacy, security, transparency, validation, appropriate human oversight, and escalation of potential legal or compliance risks.
- Liaise with Business Operations and relevant internal stakeholders to stay informed about enterprise tools, technology capabilities, and process improvement opportunities that may support Compliance activities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- 4+ years of experience, or 2-4 years of directly relevant experience, including experience supporting compliance, risk, monitoring, reporting, workflow, process-improvement, or related business operations activities.
- Strong analytical, organizational, project management, and follow-through skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy and quality in a deadline-driven environment.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, including experience using Excel or other approved tools to analyze data, track workflows, and prepare management-ready reporting.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Power Automate and SharePoint list configuration, or similar workflow/data-management tools, with an interest in using these platforms to support automation, reporting, tracking, and Compliance process improvement.
- Experience with compliance monitoring, risk assessments, dashboards, performance reporting, business-facing analytics, workflow improvement, automation readiness, or continuous improvement initiatives.
- Experience working cross-functionally with business stakeholders to gather and validate information, support remediation, evaluate process improvements, and communicate practical recommendations.
- Working awareness of legal, compliance, and governance considerations related to artificial intelligence, automation, analytics, or emerging technologies, including data quality, confidentiality, privacy, security, validation, and appropriate human oversight.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, attention to detail, and ability to translate complex information into clear, actionable insights for varied audiences.
- Eligible to work in the United States without the need for employer visa sponsorship now or in the future.