A compliance career can be rewarding, strategic and meaningful and is ideal for those who enjoy analysing and translating theory in business to achievable outcomes and integration to business practices to help achieve the goals and targets of the organisation.

Your Career in Compliance

The Australian Compliance Institute can help you develop your compliance career right from the start of your journey.

• Has your organisation asked you to do something about helping make sure they are compliant?
• Are you uncertain of where and how to start?
• Are you not even sure what ‘doing’ compliance is?
• Can’t imagine that compliance is a career?

You may even be asking yourself: is this a career move?

Yes! People do compliance management and leadership as a career and find a lot of challenge, reward, and respect as a compliance professional.

Welcome to the highly satisfying role of compliance professional!

What’s Involved in a Compliance Career?

Being a compliance professional long term can be an extremely varied undertaking. Depending on where you’re employed, you may be broadly responsible across the organisation, so you are likely a ‘complete toolkit’ compliance professional, contributing throughout the compliance management system and associated activities and across all obligations.

You may then go and work for other organisations where you evolve into what’s termed a ‘T’ professional – you have the general compliance risk and strategic acumen, coupled with specialised knowledge or skills – maybe in a particular area of obligations or the compliance management system activities, for example in policy writing or risk controls.

As you move up in seniority, you will also experience a change in expectations about what you will deliver and enable regarding compliance on behalf of the organisation. At a more junior level, you may have discrete responsibilities around areas of obligations or the program and deliver as per specific requirements. At a more senior level, you are strategically assessing these discrete activities, evaluating, adjusting and supervising others doing the day-to-day execution. You may be leading a team or the culture and compliance efforts on behalf of the line two function, keeping in mind the governance model for compliance, which means line two isn’t responsible for complying; it’s the system that assists the business with doing so.

A career in compliance risk can be rewarding, strategic and meaningful. If you enjoy analysing and translating theory in business to achievable outcomes and integration into business practices to help achieve the goals and targets of the organisation, then a compliance career is ideal for you.

The Australian Compliance Institute has courses, events and professional development activities to assist you and take you where you want to go.

Where are you in your compliance career and what do you need to develop?