Regional Compliance Officer

Role Overview

• Lead the LATAM FCPA/ABAC compliance program, including regional strategy, governance, risk prioritization, executive reporting, and execution across active businesses, acquisitions, joint ventures, and government-facing operations.
• Build and mature a scalable ABAC control framework covering government interactions, gifts and hospitality, sponsorships, charitable donations, third-party risk, escalation standards, monitoring, and reporting.
• Lead post-acquisition and joint venture compliance integration, including due diligence input, pre-close risk assessment, policy deployment, control implementation, remediation tracking, and post-close monitoring.
• Advise senior regional stakeholders on high-risk business decisions involving government touchpoints, books-and-records risks, internal controls, sanctions, PEP exposure, and third-party engagements.
• Partner with Accounting, Finance, Legal, M&A, Compliance Operations, in-country leadership, external counsel, and forensic advisors to identify, escalate, and remediate material compliance risks.
• Direct regional ABAC/FCPA training and communications, ensuring content is locally relevant, language appropriate, role-based, and supported by completion tracking and effectiveness measures.
• Oversee regional risk reviews, forensic compliance workstreams, remediation plans, and leadership updates to ensure timely accountability, closure of findings, and visibility into emerging risk trends.
• Develop durable regional compliance infrastructure, including templates, workflows, dashboards, escalation protocols, and cross-functional operating rhythms that support sustainable oversight.
• Ensure that regional programs align with global program standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; JD, MBA, advanced degree, or relevant certification such as CCEP, CFE, CAMS, CISA, or CPA preferred
• 10+ years of FCPA/ABAC, ethics and compliance, investigations, audit, legal, or related risk experience, including meaningful responsibility for Latin American or Caribbean markets.
• Demonstrated Director-level capability to set strategy, design governance, influence senior stakeholders, manage cross-functional execution, and deliver executive-ready reporting.
• Deep working knowledge of FCPA anti-bribery provisions, books-and-records obligations, internal controls, third-party risk, government interactions, gifts and hospitality, sponsorships, donations, and high-risk approvals
• Fluent Spanish, written and verbal, with the ability to advise senior stakeholders, deliver training, engage in-country teams, and coordinate with regional counsel; Brazilian Portuguese preferred.
• Experience leading post-acquisition or joint venture compliance integration, including ABAC due diligence, risk prioritization, policy deployment, remediation tracking, and post-close monitoring.
• Strong understanding of LATAM regulatory, cultural, and business environments across multiple jurisdictions, with sound judgment in balancing risk management and commercial practicality
• Ability to partner effectively with Accounting, Finance, Legal, M&A, Compliance Operations, in-country management, external counsel, and forensic advisors on complex regional risk matters
• Working knowledge of financial statements, books-and-records risk, internal controls, and forensic accounting concepts; accounting background or CPA strongly preferred
• Experience with GRC, workflow, monitoring, or compliance reporting platforms such as Workiva, AuditBoard/Optro, OneTrust, ProcessUnity, or similar tools
• Willingness to travel regularly within LATAM and engage directly with local leadership, finance teams, and business stakeholders.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental and mental health benefits for you and your family, with access to a health care concierge, and Flexible or Health Savings Accounts (FSA or HSA)
• Free concert tickets, generous paid time off including paid holidays, sick time, and personal days
• 401(k) program with company match, stock reimbursement program
• New parent programs including caregiver leave, plus fertility, adoption, foster, or surrogacy support
• Career and skill development programs with School of Live, tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment
• Volunteer time off, crowdfunding match