Senior Consultant - Compliance Services

Senior Consultant - Compliance Services

We're looking for a passionate and curious Compliance and Ethics Consultant to join our team and make a real impact. You'll help shape ethical business practices, assess and enhance compliance programs, and advise clients across a variety of industries. This role blends hands-on client work, strategic guidance, policy and training development, and opportunities to contribute to thought leadership in the compliance space.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and supporting risk and program assessments, uncovering insights to strengthen client compliance frameworks
• Developing and refining policies and codes of conduct that set the standard for ethical behavior
• Collaborating on engaging compliance and ethics training (online and in-person) that drives real change
• Providing expert advisory services on regulatory requirements, investigations, and program implementation
• Driving thought leadership by authoring articles, whitepapers, blogs, and presenting at webinars and events
• Contributing to business development, including proposal preparation and client meetings
• Building trusted, long-term relationships with clients through high-quality delivery and deep expertise

Required experience and skills include:

• Undergraduate degree required; legal qualification preferred
• Strong knowledge of regulatory frameworks (e.g., FCPA, UK Bribery Act, EU AI Act, DOJ Guidance)
• Excellent writing, communication, and presentation skills
• Experience in policy drafting, training development, and managing compliance programs
• Proven project management and client-facing skills
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

What Diligent Offers You:

• Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
• We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
• We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
• Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, Singapore and Sydney. To foster strong collaboration and connection, this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations, you will be expected to work onsite at least 50% of the time. We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.

We are a drug free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.