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Job Summary
The Compliance Senior Analyst (Specialist level) takes on an active responsibility in resolving compliance issues. Assists in implementing compliance and local legislative requirements at site level. Assists in ensuring Equinix management systems remain compliant to the requirements globally and drives continual improvement. Receives little instruction on work and general instruction on new assignments

Responsibilities

Audits & Certifications

• Plans specialized site level compliance audits (internal and external)

• Leads diverse site level compliance certification projects and identifies processes to be audited based on specialized knowledge of criteria and controls

• Develops industry knowledge of standards

• Conducts/leads compliance  audits, creates specialized reports and communicates findings and risks to management

• Participates in external audits to provide subject matter expertise support

• Ensures any non-compliance findings are closed in a timely manner

Management Systems

• Is involved in specialized changes and updates any local site level management system assets by raising a document change request

• Provides specialized compliance input for site level management review meetings

• Develops specialized local compliance procedures to comply with local legislative and Equinix requirements

• Ensures all required compliance records are maintained in local/global repositories; including:  records relevant to Operations compliance (QISBC and EHS) 

• Assists in the development and maintenance of a global QISBC and EHS management systems including related policies, processes, templates and procedures leading to standardization, consistency and continual improvement

Program Management

• Produces seasoned compliance reports for local management including key performance indicators and metrics for diverse matters

• Performs a moderate analysis on corrective and preventative actions to identify diverse systemic issues/root causes/delays in completion and recommends resolving a variety of compliance issues through preventive actions

• Identifies and participates in specialized process improvement initiatives and compliance projects for the site/country in collaboration with regional and/or global stakeholders.

• Answers specialized queries on compliance tools/systems and manages the tool as an admin.

Training

• Monitors and tracks any QISBC/EHS compliance related training as required by the business, ensuring in scope site personnel complete training within target dates

• Develops specialized local training materials/toolbox talks

• Manages and tracks relevant mandatory diverse compliance training

• Provides specialized level training and inductions for new compliance personnel within a diverse scope         

• May be involved in training existing team members, and contractors 

1st Line Responsibilities

• Performs specialized site level audit evidence reviews and collection including making sure that the sites are prepared for any upcoming audits  

• Acts as a specialized single point of contact (SPOC) for site level compliance related customer or any third party audits, as needed within a diverse scope

• Assists Data Center managers in the implementation of site level compliance policies and processes, as per global requirements

• Ensures site level compliance with new and existing local/federal/regulatory requirements and follow up on any actions

• Provides Compliance SME support for relevant site/country stakeholders including mentoring when necessary, identifying compliance related risks / issues at site level

• Conducts routine site inspections with focus on requirements from local/regional/federal and Equinix requirements

• Assists sites in any risk assessments and business continuity related documentation maintenance as required (Business Continuity, EHS, are kept current)  

2nd Line Responsibilities

• Communicates risks in a timely manner to manager and external groups

• Identifies potential risks for non-compliance

• Provides RFI/RFP support for compliance related topics and second level support for customer audits

• Provides QISBC/EHS specialized compliance support for first line of defense and other internal stakeholders

• Feeds back compliance related content as part of any cross-functional projects

• Reviews first Line of defense management review content                                                         

• May support more junior teammates and field   more diverse requests requiring more seasoned experience and program knowledge

Compliance Implementation

• Provides customer RFI/RFP/Pre-Sales /Audit /Questionnaire site level compliance support

• Supports responses for specialized requests or sensitive issues with diverse risk

• Integrates new sites or site expansions to Equinix standards within a diverse scope   

• Involved in the specialized managing of Data Center business continuity exercise program ensuring all required drills are planned, tracked, conducted, and documented by site operations, as per global policy

• Supports application of designated permits, compliance to existing permits, plans (e.g. Air, Spill Prevention, Chemical Reporting, etc.) within a diverse scope

• Evaluates specialized work place changes, processes, equipment and substances for compliance to Equinix policies and recommends corrective action within a diverse scope

Qualifications

• Proven years of experience in relevant field of compliance preferred

• Bachelor's Degree in a related subject preferred

• QISBC or EHS certification preferred

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