Responsibilities

Position Summary: We are looking for an experienced Compliance Audit Lead to contribute to the ongoing development of the Compliance pillar. The role will build and mature the compliance audit capabilities in Payments, Privacy and other compliance areas using innovative assurance methods to impact and influence positive business outcomes across products such as TikTok, TikTok Shop and Lemon8. Responsibilities: - Audit Management & Execution: Lead planning and execution of compliance audit programs and compliance risk assessments. Leverage data analytics to detect risk signals and unearth insights. Communicate issues and recommendations to senior management. - Stakeholder Relationships: Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with management, understand the business to provide value-added services, and establish credibility as a management consultant and internal controls resource. - Subject Matter: Ability to grasp complex, home grown technology stack, comfortable speaking with legal and product teams; and be the go-to person on compliance topics such as Privacy & Data protection and regulatory frameworks. Understanding emerging compliance hot spots and build a robust framework to help manage changing compliance landscape. - Compliance Assessment: Work closely with business partners, including product and legal compliance leaders, to assess complex regulatory frameworks and evaluate applicability across Bytedances suite of products. - Audit Program Development: Collaborate with the Global Head of Compliance and peers to develop and implement an audit program for compliance and integrated audits, tailored to TikTok and ROW ByteDance products (example: Lemon8, CapCut, TikTok LIVE, TikTok Shop etc.). - Quality Assurance: Ensure the overall quality and consistency of audit work, adhering to department and professional standards. Continuously seek opportunities for audit process improvement. - Audit Techniques: Identify and develop audit techniques, including continuous auditing, data analysis, and monitoring using internal platforms and technology.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: - Portfolio Management: Demonstrated experience managing a portfolio of audits, with concurrent oversight and execution of multiple projects. - Integrated Audits: Experience managing integrated audits that address a combination of financial/compliance and technology objectives. - Professional interests: Passion for decoding compliance, products and standards. Strong critical thinking skills combined with the ability to provide a credible technical challenge to the business. - Industry experience: Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a product centric culture. - Analytical skills: Proven analytical ability to assess complex technology environments against risk assessment outcomes, industry best practices, internal standards and external regulatory requirements. - Communication skills: Strong written communication skills appropriate for executive reporting and presentation. - Global Experience: Experience working in a global organization and managing projects across different time zones (America and EMEA). Preferred Qualifications: - Experience: 5+ years of experience in compliance or compliance adjacent fields. - Understanding of data protection and privacy frameworks (eg. GDPR). - Ability to identify gaps in privacy controls and regulatory frameworks and provide risk-based recommendations for remediation. - Knowledge of regulations, compliance testing methodologies, and risk management principles as it applies to fast growth technology companies. - Experience of working at a startup company or tech/fintech company is a plus. - Education: Bachelor's degree in law, risk, business or any other related field. - Knowledge of external current and upcoming risk and controls frameworks such as DSA, DMA, EU AI Act, etc. is a plus but not essential. - Certifications: Professional certifications such as CFE, CISA, CIA, CRISC, CRCM.

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