Ethics & Compliance Director, APAC

About Lightsource bp

Lightsource bp is a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects. We are a joint venture with bp with a mission to help drive the world’s transition to low carbon energy.

With solar set to increase tenfold in the next 20 years, we are well-positioned to capitalise on this growth. By joining the Lightsource bp team, you will ‘be the change’ on the world’s energy transition to a more sustainable future.

We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit as we continue to push the boundaries of an ever-changing energy landscape. By choosing a career with us, you can expect a challenging and fulfilling role surrounded by people who are passionate and have brilliant ideas about sustainable technology, innovation and making the world a better place.

What You’ll do (the role)

Summary

The E&C team is a global Group Function. We operate an ethics and compliance program to maintain stakeholder trust and protect the value of our company. We lead on setting and deploying standards across the Group, providing the tools to enable teams to meet those standards, and on monitoring compliance for our executive and governance bodies.

You will interface with senior management and their teams on a broad range of topics to enable regional leadership to meet their ethics and compliance accountabilities, and to promote ethical and complaint business conduct in your region. You will carry substantial responsibility for implementation of the program, it’s ongoing development, and its alignment with our ethical standards and relevant legislation.

Duties and responsibilities

Reporting to the Chief Compliance Officer you will be responsible for:

• Being a ‘trusted advisor’ to executive and senior leadership across the Asia Pacific Region, enabling them to deliver their accountability for doing business ethically and with integrity, and for applying all elements of the group’s E&C program. This will involve both advising on individual cases and presenting regional data-based reports based on our group E&C dashboards.
• For E&C, being a contact point for staff, providing advice and guidance on the application of our Codes of Ethical Conduct and the associated Compliance Policies, procedures, and controls.
• Providing training on all aspects of the E&C program, and assisting teams to deploy communications, engagement, and eLearning resources.
• Ensuring that risk and control assessments remain current as the business grows and evolves.
• Conducting monitoring activities and providing insights to project, country and regional leadership, enabling them to fulfil their accountabilities for managing E&C risk and for implementing E&C policies, procedures, and controls proportionately for their area of responsibility
• Being an intake channel for breaches or concerns raised by staff and other stakeholders, complementing the speak-up service and coordinating with other channels such as HR
• Highlighting trends and insights that contribute to continuous improvement of the group’s E&C activities, and supporting projects as needed to strengthen the E&C program
• This is initially a senior ‘individual contributor’ role. Depending on the growth of the region and broader business, there may be opportunity to manage small teams comprised of staff and consultants, to i) deliver projects that strengthen the overall global E&C program and ii) provide data and analysis to leadership and individuals.

Who we’re looking for

Knowledge

• In depth understanding of Business Ethics and Compliance
• Deep understanding and expertise in ABC (Anti-Bribery and Corruption) and Conflicts of Interest.
• Core understanding of laws on sanctions, trade controls, human rights, modern slavery, competition, data privacy and AML (Anti-Money Laundering)

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant subject.
• English: Fluent; spoken and writing
• Fluency / competency in additional languages would be a significant advantage, especially Spanish, Portuguese or the language(s) of one or more Southeast Asian countries
• A legal qualification, and / or additional E&C qualifications or certifications, would be an advantage

Experience

• Extensive post-graduate business experience, or equivalent, is essential.
• Relevant experience of E&C Program improvement and implementation.
• E&C experience within the energy / renewables sector would be an advantage.

Why you’ll make a great member of the team

• You are recognized as being a role model of doing business with integrity.
• You demonstrate a high level of objectivity, integrity, motivation, team orientation, professionalism, and trustworthiness.
• You are self-assured and confident in a variety of settings with confidence in your capabilities, but respectful and humble in their application
• You are highly competent in presenting qualitative and quantitative information effectively to senior management and in management-by-influence
• You have demonstrated ability to resolve conflict between groups with opposing perspectives, objectives, or priorities 
• You have planning, project-management, problem-solving and change management skills
• You are familiar with resolving Compliance issues and taking a proportionate and risk-based approach to Compliance due diligence
• You are proficient in PowerPoint, Excel, Word, SharePoint, Teams and related Microsoft Office tools.

Why you’ll want to work for us

Our company is a place where you can be yourself and grow – a place where your ideas and opinions matter.

Be you

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive community, where every individual is valued and treated with respect.

Be responsible

Our culture is driven by our core values. From operating safely to ensuring our solar projects are responsible and promote biodiversity.

Be recognised

Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits including annual bonus, retention bank, health insurance, pension, and other local benefits.

Be inspired

Join an agile, international team working across 15 countries to power the future and positively impact people, communities, ecosystems and biodiversity across the world.

Our core values

Lightsource bp truly cares about creating a sustainable future through safe, responsible and meaningful low-carbon energy projects. Our core values of Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability and Drive are the guiding principles for everything we do. 

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