Compliance Specialist – Oil and Gas Sector

NSR Associates

Doha, Qatar

Ref: KP714-771

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

To provide the business with the professional compliance management support that contributes towards the achievement of the company’s strategic objectives. This includes advice and guidance on all aspects of compliance awareness, management and control matters.

The successful candidate will have a key role in shaping and maintaining a fit-for-purpose and responsive risk strategy and framework that meets current and future corporate and project plans.

Key responsibilities include:

Develop and implement a risk-based compliance monitoring programme, identifying, assessing, monitoring and reporting all material compliance risks.

Ensure that compliance procedures, systems and controls are up-to-date and effective.

Maintain a thorough understanding of relevant regulatory requirements to provide advice and guidance to senior managers enabling them to implement compliant policies and procedures.

Contribute to discussions on new business activities providing compliance expertise and advice ensuring regulatory requirements can be met and dealing with conflicts of interest.

Provide regular training to employees on compliance matters, including internal policies and procedures, the application of standards and guidelines, and relevant laws and regulatory requirements, promoting and enhancing a strong compliance culture.

Provide essential input as a senior member of management and credibly challenge the management on current issues and the development and implementation of strategy.

As a senior member of the CFO team, assist in the recruitment, coaching and development of direct and indirect reports.

Identify & drive improvement initiatives to reduce duplication and achieve simplification and standardisation, where possible

Represent the company, where applicable with third parties (e.g. regulatory authorities, asset/venture partners) to maintain and enhance relationships, visibility and reputation.

Requirements

Recognised professional qualification (e.g. CA), university degree (covering accounting, finance, law and tax) or equivalent

At least 10 years knowledge and experience of best practice compliance management and governance frameworks, methodologies and emerging practice.

Knowledge of energy investment projects and investments.

Proven analytical and communication skills.

Strong cultural awareness and proven ability to operate, lead and influence in culturally diverse environment.

A ‘can do’ attitude and ability to perform in difficult situations.

About the Company

At NSR we pride ourselves on market knowledge, integrity, loyalty and professionalism. Through personal relationships and knowledge of what our clients look for in specific requirements we like to pride ourselves on matching people to the right role.

The partners at NSR have always dealt with people in an open and honest manner and as a company we are driven to find the right opportunity for people enhancing their career where ever this may be worldwide.

We work on the principal that every person we deal with is a potential client, this process has proved beneficial for us as there are many people we have dealt with on the International circuit that have approached NSR Associates to recruit for them as a client after we have worked on their behalf as a candidate.

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