Job Title – Policy Adherence Specialist
Location: Miramar, FL (Hybrid- Onsite Tuesday- Thursday)
Salary Range: $50 - $54/hr
6-Month assignment on W2 with a possibility for extension or conversion based on performance and budget
You will play a key role in strengthening risk mitigation, compliance, and policy adherence across the Firm.
You will be part of the Operations Policy Adherence team, which drives adoption of preferred buying channels by designing, implementing, and overseeing consequence-management processes that ensure compliance with Firm policies.
Reporting to the Manager of Operations, Policy Adherence, you will help build and scale Policy Adherence Operations within Optimize’s Operations team. Your work will focus on operational risk mitigation, compliance execution, and continuous process improvement to minimize risk and help set the standard for our profession.
Skills & Qualifications
- 3–5 years of corporate and/or professional services experience
- MUST have experience auditing policy adherence, risk mitigation exposure, case management or compliance investigations, and Procurement governance knowledge
- Excel skills are required
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities independently
- Proven ability to lead projects and manage stakeholders in complex, autonomous environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with adaptability across audiences and seniority levels
- Experience creating professional deliverables, including PowerPoint, Excel, and written materials
- Background in policy adherence, risk management, compliance, or auditing
- High level of discretion and professionalism when handling confidential information
- Data-driven decision maker with strong problem-solving skills
- Comfortable raising issues, influencing senior stakeholders, and delivering tough messages
- Willingness to work in-person and outside standard business hours when need
- You thrive in high-performance environments and bring a growth mindset, ownership
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Lead operational aspects of risk mitigation, compliance, and policy adherence
- Conduct research, audits, and reviews of procurement and expense processes
- Operationalize policies and document standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Expand the scope of risk management and develop efficiency and audit plans
- Serve as an escalation point for complex, sensitive expense-related issues involving policy, risk, and compliance
- Provide expert guidance to resolve high-impact issues with colleagues and senior leaders
- Measure and track performance of teams and external partners
- Collaborate with service providers (e.g., Coupa, Aravo, Uber, Lyft) to drive innovation
Partner cross-functionally with Legal, Finance, Information Security, Risk, HR, - Compliance, Supplier Risk, and other Firm groups
- Align with leadership to implement and deliver ESG and Risk strategies
- Your work will directly help protect the Firm by strengthening governance, improving compliance outcomes, and enabling responsible growth.
Our company offers our contractors a suite of benefits after a qualification period including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance.
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