Compliance & Risk Management -Executive

Overview

Support workplace operations by ensuring adherence to applicable labour laws, statutory regulations, corporate compliance standards, and internal governance requirements, driving compliance programs, managing audits, mitigating risks, and partnering with internal stakeholders and vendor organizations across locations.

What you'll do

• Support labour law compliance programs and ongoing risk management initiatives.
• Ensure adherence to labour laws and statutory requirements, including the Contract Labour (Regulation & Abolition) Act (CLRA), Shops & Establishments Act, Provident Fund (PF), Employees' State Insurance (ESI), Professional Tax (PT), Labour Welfare Fund (LWF), and building compliance requirements.
• Identify compliance risks and implement preventive controls.
• Review audit observations, statutory notices, litigation risks, vendor compliance issues, and corrective action plans.
• Drive closure of compliance gaps through effective escalation and follow-up mechanisms.
• Collaborate with Legal, Risk & Compliance, Facilities, Procurement, HR, Transport, and Vendor Management teams.
• Participate in internal and external audits, statutory reviews, and government inspections.
• Review audit reports received from compliance partners, analyze observations, and classify compliance gaps by risk level.
• Communicate audit findings to site teams, stakeholders, and vendor partners, and track closure of observations through documentation and evidence validation.
• Escalate overdue, recurring, or critical compliance issues to relevant leadership teams.
• Conduct trend analysis on recurring observations and recommend preventive measures.
• Monitor audit scores, compliance metrics, and closure status across locations.
• Monitor CLRA licensing compliance through audit reviews and monthly assessments, and highlight expired, invalid, unavailable, or non-applicable licenses for immediate action.
• Support obtaining CLRA registrations and amendments where required, and coordinate annual CLRA return submissions within statutory timelines.
• Ensure vendor participation in monthly compliance audits and reviews, monitor submission of statutory documents, and address documentation gaps and recurring observations.
• Drive vendors toward achieving and maintaining compliance audit scores above organizational targets, and present vendor compliance performance during governance reviews.
• Collect and validate workforce headcount information using attendance management systems and site records, and maintain accuracy of workforce-related compliance records.
• Coordinate labour law, PF, ESI, and CLRA inspections across locations, and track statutory notices and timely responses.
• Coordinate with facility and property management teams to collect, validate, and upload building compliance artifacts, and support periodic compliance reviews and spot audits.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc compliance reports for leadership and present audit results and corrective action plans in governance forums.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Law (LLB).
• Strong knowledge of Indian labour laws and statutory compliance requirements.
• Experience managing vendor and contractor compliance.
• Audit management and risk assessment expertise.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong reporting, governance, and compliance monitoring capabilities.

Nice to have

• Company Secretary (CS) or Chartered Accountant (CA).
• Additional qualifications in Compliance, Risk Management, or Governance.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, KA (on-site).
• Scheduled weekly hours: 48.