Global Compliance On-Demand Compliance Officers

Expert advice and counsel—when and where you need it

Organizations often need an infusion of ethics and compliance expertise to handle a particular challenge—someone to work alongside with or lead your team members in risk management, human resources, legal and other departments. They need a cost-effective resource that is available on-demand and committed to success — without the committed investment of a full-time employee.

For these situations, Global Compliance and it's in-house team of Expert Advisors from the Ethical Leadership Group offers On-Demand Compliance Officers who can provide ethics and compliance services including:

• Oversee, coordinate and implement the company’s ethics and compliance program.
• Review Employee Hotline reports, designate investigators and monitor though conclusion (in coordination with HR, leadership).
• Report quarterly on status and progress to the Board, CEO and other leadership.
• Refresh risk assessments.
• Write and/or update policies as required or suggested by risk assessment.
• Ensure your Code of Conduct has the necessary scope, is properly distributed and becomes ingrained in your culture.
• Work with your leadership to develop an on-site ethics and compliance capacity in all locations.
• Function as independent monitors for issues with government agencies or for regulatory crisis management (Deferred Prosecution Agreements, Administrative Agreements and Corporate Integrity Agreements)
• Be on-call 24x7 for ethics and compliance crisis management.

Ethics due diligence in mergers and acquisitions
Too often mergers and acquisitions fail because of cultural differences that should have been recognized and addressed at the outset. We have also seen examples where two companies have vastly different approaches to ethics and compliance, resulting in years of struggle, acrimony, litigation—and billions of dollars in lost shareholder value.

Global Compliance can conduct due diligence investigations of the target company’s ethics, compliance and corporate responsibility efforts and highlight potential areas of conflict and concerns. This internal examination is supplemented by a “background check” on the target company’s ethics and compliance history and reputation. Ethical due diligence is valuable not just for avoiding unknown risks, but for identifying areas to target during post merger integration efforts.

Coaching company leaders
Do you have a new ethics officer who would like to avoid the traps others have fallen into? A top performer who needs a little grounding in ethical discernment or treating others with respect? We can help.  Global Compliance's experts at the Ethical Leadership Group offer confidential, personal and effective leadership coaching. This service is designed for your company’s leaders – whether in the ethics and compliance function or elsewhere – to assist them in achieving their full potential.

Integration into human resources systems
How big is your ethics and compliance team? None that we know of is big enough to do everything on their own. They rely on strong partnerships with line management, legal, audit, and human resources. Under the new Sentencing Guidelines, human resources might be the most important ally of all. Ethics and compliance must be integrated into hiring, performance appraisals, promotions, incentives, discipline–almost the entire HR life cycle. Our team–with experience in legal, ethics, compliance, audit and hr–will help functions work together to build the culture of integrity they all share as a goal.