Assistant Manager, Digital Regulation & Corporate Compliance

About this role

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As part of our Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory business, we are significantly investing in the growth of our Ethics & Regulatory Compliance (E&RC) team. We empower organisations to navigate the full spectrum of regulatory demands and ethical expectations, fostering truly responsible business practices. This includes critical areas such as Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Data Privacy, Human Rights, Competition, and the rapidly evolving landscape of Digital Regulation (including online safety, artificial intelligence and consumer protection).

Deloitte’s E&RC team is formed of a multi-disciplinary team that includes governance, risk and compliance specialists, non-practicing lawyers, technologists, trust & safety and policy experts working across the areas of digital compliance and broader corporate compliance, working in collaboration with specialist teams across Deloitte. We are helping some of the world’s leading brands navigate the challenges of regulatory change by delivering premium advisory services with our services spanning compliance operating model design and implementation, regulatory risk assessments, and monitoring & reporting, with deep regulation specific subject matter expertise.

We establish frameworks, capabilities, and technology, making a tangible impact by improving the rights of billions of digital users and ensuring ethical conduct across all industries. Our team has extensive experience in delivering E&RC projects for organisations across a variety of different industries around the world, as well as providing insights, thought leadership and regular contact with our global network.

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

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We are expanding our Ethics & Regulatory Compliance (E&RC) team and seek motivated, collaborative individuals with a strong understanding of risk, compliance, ethics, governance, and assurance. You will be part of team providing compliance and regulatory advisory solutions and advice, building trusted client relationships across diverse industries.

This role suits candidates with proven professional experience (ideally with a professional services or industry governance, risk and compliance industry role) and with a desire to help companies establish practical processes for regulatory compliance and build customer trust. You will support clients, including some of the world's largest and most complex organisations, across the full regulatory lifecycle – from operating model design and risk mitigation to audit preparation.

You will help clients identify challenges and provide solutions through advisory, process, capability, and technology improvements. You will have the opportunity to be involved in projects such as:

• Reviewing and assessing the current state of compliance across the organisation and recommending practical enhancements.
• Designing and implementing enterprise-level governance, risk, and compliance frameworks.
• Performing regulatory risk assessments, including anti-bribery & corruption, online safety and broader compliance topics.
• Designing and documenting regulatory controls and preparing for independent audits (e.g., ISAE3000).
• Establishing specific content compliance and trust & safety processes (e.g., minor/vulnerable user safety, fundamental rights, deepfakes).
• Advising on specific regulatory domains such as anti-bribery & corruption, whistleblowing, fraud and digital regulation
• You must possess excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to senior stakeholders, and be a strong team player capable of assimilating issues across industries, with potential for leadership. Our engagements demand pragmatic approaches, grounded in a solid understanding of ethics and regulatory compliance, to provide sound advice and minimise client risks effectively.

Working across multiple industries, you will need to work with clients to help them identify challenges with their existing risk and compliance capabilities and help provide solutions via a combination of advisory, process, capability and/or technology improvements.

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Essential

Governance, risk and controls exposure

• Experience supporting the design, implementation or assessment of governance, risk and control frameworks, or an understanding of how these frameworks support operational processes, regulatory compliance and assurance in organisations.

Regulatory interpretation and application

• Basic understanding of regulatory or compliance requirements, with some experience supporting their translation into policies, processes, controls or monitoring activities.

Practical compliance approach

• Ability to identify and assess compliance risks, support the evaluation of control effectiveness and contribute to the development of pragmatic, proportionate solutions.

Regulatory or compliance domain exposure

• Experience working in or supporting projects across one or more regulatory or compliance domains such as anti-bribery & corruption, financial crime, privacy, consumer protection or digital regulation.

Delivery, problem solving and workstream contribution

• Experience contributing to project delivery, managing your own priorities and producing high-quality outputs to agreed timelines, with strong problem-solving skills to support the development of client solutions.

Stakeholder communication

• Good communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain ideas, contribute to discussions and support engagement with business, risk, legal or compliance stakeholders.

Adaptability and approach

• Highly adaptable, able to assimilate new regulatory topics and work across diverse industries and project types, with a willingness to learn and respond to evolving client priorities.

Teamwork and proactivity

• Proactive and collaborative team player, able to work effectively in a global, diverse and agile team environment with an inclusive working style.

Flexibility

• Openness to travel to client sites and/or flexible working hours as required.
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Regulatory interpretation capability

• Experience or demonstrable exposure to interpreting regulatory or compliance requirements and applying them in a business or project context.

R*egulatory risk and control exposure:*

• Exposure to supporting regulatory risk assessments, control testing or control design activities across one or more compliance domains.

Controls and assurance awareness

• Understanding of how controls are documented and how organisations prepare for assurance or audit processes (e.g. ISAE3000 or similar frameworks).

Engagement exposure

• Exposure to core engagement management processes (e.g. working to budgets, tracking deliverables or supporting proposal and client delivery processes).

Digital and technology awareness

• Interest in digital technologies and their impact on regulatory compliance, including areas such as online safety, AI or data-driven business models.

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