About the Role
We are a consulting service team within EY Japan Consulting that specializes in helping organizations solve business challenges through Work Design consulting. For this engagement, we are seeking an experienced Compliance Transformation SME to support a governance, risk, and compliance transformation program within a regulated industry. The work is delivery-oriented and requires a professional who can translate complex regulatory and compliance requirements into structured and practical documentation.
Responsibilities
- Map regulatory obligations to controls, processes, governance structures, and documentation.
- Review and enhance compliance frameworks and supporting documentation.
- Conduct policy and procedure reviews and support alignment to enterprise standards.
- Support compliance monitoring and control framework enhancement initiatives.
- Perform controls mapping and governance documentation activities.
- Analyze regulatory requirements and translate them into practical business processes.
- Support risk assessment, governance, and compliance transformation activities.
- Identify gaps, dependencies, and opportunities for process improvement.
- Collaborate with local, regional, and global stakeholders to ensure consistency of approach.
- Organize, maintain, and improve compliance-related documentation.
- Support the preparation of information for migration into centralized governance, risk, and compliance systems.
- Contribute to broader compliance transformation and operating model initiatives.
Requirements
- Experience in compliance transformation programs.
- Experience in regulatory change initiatives.
- Experience with Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) frameworks.
- Experience in compliance monitoring programs.
- Experience in regulatory obligations management.
- Experience in controls design and controls mapping.
- Experience with risk assessment methodologies.
- Experience with internal controls and governance documentation.
- Experience in AML / Financial Crime Compliance.
- Experience in policy and procedure development and remediation.
- Experience working within regulated industries.
- Experience in cross-border or multinational compliance environments.
Skills
- Strong understanding of compliance, governance, and risk management principles.
- Ability to interpret regulatory requirements and business obligations.
- Experience performing mapping, documentation, and gap assessment activities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating with diverse stakeholder groups.
- Strong written documentation skills.
- Experience supporting transformation or change initiatives.
- Professional-level English communication skills.
- Business-level Japanese communication skills.
Location
- Tokyo
- Within the 23 wards of Tokyo
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Project-based
- Quasi-Mandate Contract (業務委託)
About the Company
- EY Strategy and Consulting Co., Ltd. is a consulting service team within EY Japan Consulting that specializes in helping organizations solve business challenges through Work Design consulting.
- Company Address: Hibiya Mitsui Tower, Tokyo Midtown Hibiya, 1-1-2 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0006 Japan
