Compliance Officer - Export

Rochester based role (Full time on site, working from home on a Friday)

-33.61 per hour Umbrella Inside IR35
12 Month Contract initially.

This is a great opportunity to work within one of the UK''s leading Defence organisations based in Rochester. 4 days on site with 1 day working from home on a Friday

- Act as an export control SME to support a businesses'' export controls activities applying a level of knowledge and experience of export control processes and regulatory knowledge.

- Is typically a generalist with the ability to apply knowledge and experience of export controls to audits, projects and communications and give practical advice to the business to support the focus on why export control matters.

- Collaboration with peers both within and external to the business to seek and introduce best practices and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

- Involvement in a variety of Compliance tasks across a broad spectrum of areas and regulations.

Knowledge:

- Knowledge and understanding of UK and/or US export controls.

- Understanding of policy and process and the principles of export controls and company policy.

- Able to resolve basic and some complex issues and queries.

- Understanding of the business strategies and priorities and delivers solutions that best meet them.

Skills & Qualifications:

- Ability and willingness to learn about Export Controls with the intent of becoming an SME.- Strong attention to detail to ensure work output is thorough and accurate.

- Ability to interact with internal and external auditors.

- Ability to communicate effectively with key stakeholders to the role.

- A proactive approach to communicating with internal stakeholders.

- Ability to apply skills and knowledge to a range of problems and issues, drawing upon more experienced members of the team for guidance and advice.

- Good organisational skills and able to work under pressure.

- Meticulous administrative skills to ensure creation and maintenance of compliance records is of a high standard.

- Ability to flex and adapt in line with business priorities.

- Tactful and able to deal with sensitive information (including but not limited to export-controlled data, Government Security Classified information and personal data) to ensure such data is handled appropriately.

- Proactive approach to solving problems, working with the wider team to develop solutions.

- Ability to understand when to escalate matters for senior input.

- Ability to understand/follow and confident in solutionising from these procedures.

- Ability to work independently if required, but predominantly within a team.

For more information please contact Lauren Morley at JAM Recruitment or click apply.