Compliance Jobs Report: Mar. 14

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Another Compliance Jobs Report full of news, this week with updates from Scout Motors, Cox Enterprises, Apple, Nidec Motors, Gilead Sciences, Jumeirah, Pfizer, and elsewhere. New jobs, promotions, compliance folks joining consulting firms or vice-versa; we have it all. Job leads are in data analytics, healthcare, and audit firms; and don’t forget Meme of the…

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Study Warns on Ethical Culture Disconnect

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LRN released its annual compliance program effectiveness report last week, which is always worth a read to understand the challenges of holding your corporate culture together and driving it forward in a unified way. One big issue in this year’s report: a perceptions gap on ethical culture that exists between senior executives and other employees.…

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Turning Around Compliance Programs

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Most compliance officers will at some point in their careers find themselves needing to turn around an under-performing corporate compliance program. So today we have another Radical Compliance podcast interview, this time with a compliance officer who styles himself as a “turn-around specialist.” He had plenty to say about how to get under-performing programs back…

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Compliance Program Priorities That Endure

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’Tis the season for speeches from Justice Department officials, as they reflect on the year’s enforcement activity — and these days, try to establish some sense of continuity even as the incoming Trump Administration portends a very different approach to corporate compliance and regulatory enforcement. Which brings us to a Justice Department speech delivered late…

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Double Blast of FCPA News

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Keep up, compliance officers! A subsidiary of global consulting giant McKinsey agreed today to pay $122.8 million to settle FCPA charges in South Africa; and the Justice Department says it might allow some companies currently under corporate integrity agreements to exit those agreements early.  Those are very different news stories, so we’ll take each one…

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Compliance Jobs Report: Nov. 8

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The Compliance Jobs Report this week has new hires at Balfour Beatty, Anchorage Digital, Microsoft, Jefferson Health, and more; also promotions at McKinsey, Eaton, Standard Chartered, and a few other places. Job leads are in defense, healthcare, and cable television; and Meme of the Week goes out to policy manuals! Always remember that we need…

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Australia’s Adequate Procedures Guidance

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Today we have a guest column from Mary Shirley, chief compliance officer at ScionHealth.  Earlier this year Australia passed new anti-corruption legislation known as the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combating Foreign Bribery), and in August the government released voluntary guidance to help corporations understand the “adequate procedures” — that is, the elements of an effective compliance…

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Boeing, Part II: The New Spending

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Boeing reported second-quarter earnings today, which were predictably awful given the company’s safety and compliance lapses. So now seems like a good time to ponder the company’s recent promise to the Justice Department to increase spending on compliance efforts by $455 million over the next three years. What’s that all about?  As you may recall,…

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Compliance Jobs Report: April 5

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This week the Compliance Jobs Report has a slew of promotions, plus new hires at Infosys, Applied Materials, Walmart, FIS, and lots more. We also have job leads in economic development, financial services, and a certain electric car manufacturer with a nutty CEO; plus our Meme of the Week goes out to CCOs who report…

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Yes, Automating ICFR Helps, But… 

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Internal audit and GRC professionals talk all the time about the importance of automating internal controls. Now we have some fresh academic research demonstrating what sort of benefit a company can gain from following that path. The research comes from Musaib Ashraf, an accounting professor at Michigan State University who published a nifty paper several…

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