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Position: Risk & Compliance Central Operations Coordinator

The Risk & Compliance Operations Coordinator plays a crucial role in supporting the department’s strategic initiatives, governance, communications, and operational efficiency. This role ensures seamless collaboration across teams, maintains critical processes, and enhances department-wide communications and reporting.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, proactive, and detail-oriented, with strong communication and stakeholder management skills. They will be responsible for supporting leadership, managing internal communications, overseeing document libraries, and coordinating cross-functional initiatives.

Key accountabilities

Communications & stakeholder engagement

• Develop and implement the department’s internal communication strategy to ensure consistent and clear messaging.
• Draft and distribute key updates, newsletters, memos, and reports for leadership and broader department engagement.
• Manage and maintain the department’s intranet site - prepare, roll out and post content, coordinate site re-vamp and updates.
• Be part of a central point of contact for key stakeholders, responding efficiently to ad-hoc information requests.

Operations & governance support

• Assist in planning, coordinating, and documenting committee meetings, ensuring action items are tracked and followed up.
• Format, issue, and maintain department policies, guidance documents, and regulatory updates.
• Support process improvements and best practices to enhance governance and operational efficiency.
• Manage communications for our team internally and externally; look after team mailboxes, organise, dispatch and respond to enquiries from network firms.

Document & knowledge management

• Maintain and manage the department’s document library, ensuring proper organization, version control, and accessibility.
• Implement and oversee a document retention policy, ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal requirements.
• Curate and distribute knowledge-sharing materials, including training guides, policy updates, and industry insights.

Event & meeting coordination

• Plan, coordinate, and support conferences, department events, and leadership meetings.
• Manage logistics, scheduling, and materials preparation for cross-department meetings and forums.

Cross-team collaboration & community management

• Manage and oversee the department’s Teams community, ensuring active engagement and information sharing.
• Organize and coordinate virtual team-building events, awareness campaigns, and training sessions.
• Act as a liaison between teams to facilitate collaboration and cross-functional initiatives.

Interim responsibilities (cover for colleague on maternity leave):

• Look after team mailboxes, organise, dispatch and respond to enquiries from network firms.
• Intranet updates, including ensure contact lists and key resources are up to date, news postings, ensure contact lists and key resources are up to date.
• Events and travel – organise travel and accommodation arrangement for business trips, process expenses
• Manage meetings, coordinate schedules and format minutes
• General support - help, support and assist the CO team with various administrative and technical tasks, assist in updating and fixing the forms and templates on an ongoing basis as needed.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• Relevant bachelor degree and/or experience in operations coordination, risk and compliance, project management, or a similar role of at least 4 years.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience in drafting reports and business communications.
• Have excellent command of English, both spoken and written.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint) and other collaboration tools.
• Detail-oriented team-player with a focus on achieving excellent results through being accurate, efficient and responsible.
• Positive ‘can do’ attitude, easy-going and good sense of humour.
• Ability to work independently as well as effectively in an international team.

About us

BDO is an international network of independent public accounting, tax and advisory firms ('the BDO network'), which performs professional services under the name of BDO (‘the BDO Member Firms’). BDO is the brand name for the BDO network and for each of the BDO Member Firms.

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