Japanese Bilingual | Corporate Compliance Manager

Accenture; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior Ethics & Compliance advisor to lead governance, risk management and Responsible AI initiatives across Japan and China matters. The role balances hands-on execution with governance leadership within a global operating model.

You will advise business, legal and technology stakeholders, ensuring that regulatory, ethical, and AI risks are identified, mitigated and documented across project lifecycles. 10–15+ years of experience is expected.

Qualifications

• Law degree or equivalent relevant experience for legal/compliance advisory responsibilities.
• Experience across ethics, technology risk, AI governance, or regulatory advisory roles.
• Ability to identify risks and advise stakeholders under ambiguity.
• Strong influence with senior stakeholders and governance leadership.

Responsibilities

• Support the Team Lead in delivering E&C services and guidance to global stakeholders.
• Be a point of contact for E&C process issues and escalation to leadership.
• Research global regulations related to Ethics & Compliance.
• Ensure compliance with internal E&C policies and procedures.
• Develop and deliver trainings to spread E&C awareness across regions.
• Lead Responsible AI risk assessments and advise on policy-aligned AI adoption.

Skills

Law degree

Regulatory advisory

AI governance

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Education

Law degree

Job description

About the role

This role combines Compliance & Ethics legal advisory, Responsible AI governance and risk management, and cross-border regulatory support to enable ethical, compliant, and policy aligned operations and technology adoption across Japan and China related matters. The role serves as a trusted advisor to business, legal, and technology stakeholders, ensuring that legal, ethical, regulatory, and AI related risks are identified, assessed, mitigated, and documented across business activities and AI solution lifecycles. The position operates at a manager / associate manager level, balancing hands-on execution, governance leadership, and stakeholder enablement within a global operating model.

Key responsibilities

• Support the Team Lead manage and deliver services to global Ethics & Compliance Team as per direction from E&C team, address questions by business and Leadership, provide E&C tailored guidance including but not limited to Business, Delivery, and Finance Teams

• Be PoC for E&C process issues, recognize issues and provide timely escalation to E&C Leadership, Counsels, or appropriate stakeholders, in a precise and concise manner

• Research and monitor global regulations related to E&C area

• Ensure compliance with E&C internal policies, and procedures

• Develop and deliver trainings inside the E&C Team and across Accenture to spread E&C related awareness amongst Business and regional stakeholders

• Provide advisory support across Ethics & Compliance domains, including anti-corruption, AML, data privacy, trade compliance, government compliance, and competition law

• Address and advise on Japan and China related compliance matters, including application of region specific compliance policies and regulatory requirements

• Review documentation, business activities, and delivery matters with ethics, compliance, and geopolitical risk implications

• Identify compliance risks, propose mitigations, and escalade issues appropriately to Legal/E&C leadership

• Lead end-to-end Responsible AI risk assessments, accelerate local initiatives, and ensure policy-aligned, compliant AI adoption across Japanese stakeholders and clients

About you

• Law degree or equivalent relevant experience for legal/compliance advisory responsibilities

• 10-15+ years of professional experience across legal, compliance, ethics, technology risk, AI governance, or regulatory advisory roles

• Strong experience in risk identification, mitigation, and stakeholder advisory work

• Practical understanding of AI governance / Responsible AI / technology risk frameworks

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and guide decisions under ambiguity

About us

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability.