Compliance managers are responsible for the legal, management and compliance concerns. They ensure that their company is in compliance with the latest regulations. Their responsibilities include performing audits and analyzing problems and filing reports, collaborating with lawyers, supporting employees in analyzing sales and customer complaints as well as guiding and instructing colleagues, directing compliance procedures, and ensuring the policies. Compliance managers must be effective leaders and also excellent communicators. The job requires a lot of communication and requires a lot of writing and verbal communication with colleagues. It is also important in being persuasive as well as a great problem-solver; compliance managers typically have to look over the results of their analysis and present them to - and possibly convince lawyers or higher-ups.
Compliance managers typically work with human resources, management, lawyers outside of the organization as well as employees in the office. The majority of positions for compliance managers are full-time, work-from-home jobs that require long working hours. The majority of compliance managers work long hours as well as long distance or overnight travel is feasible. An undergraduate degree from business, accounting finance, accounting, or a similar field is required, along with 5 to 7 years relevant work experience. Based on the field of work in which the company is located additional certifications could be required.