Compliance Officer

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**Compliance lawyers in the technology field**

Would you like a chance to work alongside some of the most talented people in the technology business and improve your skills?

Keen to understand how data and AI are revolutionizing the industrial world?

**If yes, you´re in luck. We got an opportunity for you**

Cognite’s legal team believes in utilizing cutting-edge technology in our operations. Thinking outside the box is encouraged and we are always searching for more intelligent ways to improve our efficiencies and the way we work. We are seeking a Compliance Officer for our Bangalore office. This is an excellent opportunity to join Norway's first unicorn and to get a deeper understanding of what it takes to work for a cutting-edge legal tech team as a Compliance Officer.

**About the team**

Cognite’s Legal team is responsible for providing legal advice to all of the company’s business and corporate activities as well as handling the corporate compliance function. We are seeking a Compliance Officer who will report directly to Cognite’s General Counsel.

If you enjoy working in a lean and flexible team with various and challenging tasks, this might be the opportunity you are looking for.

**Focus Areas**:

- The role will entail providing legal assistance related to Cognite’s overall activities with the main focus on:

- Manage the design and monitoring of Business Integrity
- Safeguard that Cognite complies with its outside regulatory and legal requirements as well as internal policies
- Privacy, GDPR
- SOC2/ISO 27001 Compliance

**Role & Responsibilities**:

- Working with legal tech tools to automate the legal department
- Provide direction for, review and recommend approval of Business Integrity and Compliance plans, ensuring alignment between the various teams at Cognite
- Document and report findings from assessments and incidents to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner with plans for improvement and monitoring of corrective actions
- Maintain and communicate the Code of Conduct, the Anti-Corruption Policy, the Third Party Representative Policy, GDPR Policy etc.
- Company wide compliance and ethics training
- Obtain and redistribute KPI’s within compliance
- Annually review corporate responsibility and ensure compliance with legal requirements and internationally recognized reporting guidelines
- Norwegian Transparency Act Due Diligence and reporting
- Customer, partner and vendor background checks and compliance due diligence
- ESG compliance, including EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
- Support the India office and the global legal team with ad-hoc legal tasks

**We believe most of these areas match your experience**:

- Master's degree in Law
- Minimum 3 years relevant legal experience (in-house legal department, private law firm or relevant authorities), preferably from the technology field
- In depth experience with working with compliance
- Practical and commercial mindset
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
- Ability to work independently and efficiently, often with tight deadlines, with understanding of the legal in-house role
- Positive attitude
- Good negotiation skills
- Fluent in English

**Additional experience that is a benefit, but not required**:

- Experience with GDPR, SOC2, ISO 27001 and EU data protection and privacy regulations

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- Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers, with