Specialist: Compliance at BMW Group South Africa

• Our Compliance team safeguards the integrity of the BMW Group, its assets, customers and employees by operating an effective local Compliance Management System. In this role, you will support compliance activities across the National Sales Company, Plant Rosslyn and the IT Hub in South Africa.

What awaits you?

• Develop, implement, maintain and continuously improve the local Compliance Management System in line with Group governance and applicable legal requirements.
• Define the local compliance strategy and perform compliance risk assessments covering country-specific and business-model risks.
• Monitor relevant legal requirements and external trends, and implement effective compliance processes, controls, tools and Group-wide IT systems.
• Prepare and deliver compliance communications, training and business coaching tailored to local legal and business requirements.
• Manage compliance inquiries, complaints and incidents, including fact-finding, root-cause analysis, remediation and support on sanctions where applicable.
• Perform regular and ad hoc compliance reporting and provide clear advice to employees, business departments and management.
• Coordinate with Group governance functions, authorities, auditors, forensic service providers and external legal counsel on compliance matters and investigations.

What should you bring along?

• A Legal degree.
• At least five years' professional experience in compliance, data protection and/or information protection.
• Proven experience implementing and maintaining a Compliance Management System, conducting compliance risk assessments, and developing frameworks and controls.
• Experience advising business stakeholders, presenting to management, promoting compliance culture, and engaging with public or supervisory authorities.
• Sound understanding of compliance structures and business processes in sales and production environments; basic knowledge of investigations, forensics and labour law is advantageous.
• Excellent analytical, communication, presentation, stakeholder-management and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work across cultures.
• Very good written and spoken English, confident use of Microsoft Office (particularly PowerPoint) and fundamental process and IT knowledge.