Consultant, Compliance Advisory & Technology

Epiq; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Epiq is hiring a Consultant, Compliance Advisory & Technology to support clients in assessing, enhancing, and operating corporate compliance programs. The role emphasizes risk management, technology enablement, and data-driven insights, with remote work and periodic travel to client sites.

You will collaborate with leaders and client personnel, contribute to service offerings, methodologies, and thought leadership, and explore AI capabilities to apply within compliance programs.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of professional work experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with data and drawing meaningful conclusions.
• General understanding of risk management principles and risk mitigating controls.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Exposure to artificial intelligence, automation tools, or data visualization technologies.

Responsibilities

• Support assessments of compliance program maturity and effectiveness.
• Assist with risk assessments and the identification of compliance risks and control gaps.
• Contribute to development and enhancement of compliance processes, procedures, and documentation.
• Help prepare client deliverables, presentations, and recommendations.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across client compliance programs.
• Monitor regulatory developments, industry trends, and emerging compliance practices.
• Develop compliance program materials, policies, procedures, and operational documentation.
• Support efforts to improve accessibility of compliance resources.
• Contribute to creation and administration of compliance training and awareness initiatives.
• Help document and assist with improving compliance workflows and processes.
• Gather, organize, and analyze data from multiple sources to identify trends, anomalies, and potential risks.
• Support monitoring and testing activities across communications, transactions, and third party risk areas.
• Create meaningful metrics, dashboards, reports, and visualizations for clients and project teams.
• Help evaluate program effectiveness through data analysis.
• Develop familiarity with AI capabilities and identify use cases in compliance.
• Support software evaluations, technology implementations, and process improvement.
• Assist project teams in identifying opportunities to leverage technology and data analytics.
• Collaborate with team members and client personnel across levels.
• Support project planning, execution, and delivery.
• Maintain organized workpapers, project documentation, and version control.
• Handle confidential information with professionalism and discretion.
• Participate in internal initiatives and thought leadership activities.
• Support business development through research and content development.

Skills

5+ years experience

Analytical thinking

Data experience

Risk management

Written & verbal skills

Organizational skills

Multitasking

MS Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint)

AI/Automation exposure

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

At Epiq, your work contributes to complex, global legal outcomes. You’ll join a values-driven community where integrity guides decisions, relentless service sets the bar, and we thrive on big challenges together. We invest in your growth with enterprise-wide learning and mobility. We celebrate who you are, and we respect life beyond work with flexibility that’s recognized externally. Enabled by modern platforms and AI, you’ll do the most meaningful work of your career and see your impact at scale.

Job Description

Position Summary
The Consultant, Compliance Advisory & Technology will support clients in assessing, enhancing, and operating corporate compliance programs. This role focuses on the operational side of compliance, helping organizations strengthen risk management, improve program effectiveness, leverage technology, and gain greater visibility into potential compliance risks.

Working collaboratively with Leaders, team members, and client personnel, the Consultant will contribute to client engagements focused on strengthening compliance programs through risk assessments, monitoring, reporting, technology enablement, and data driven insights. The role will support practice growth initiatives, including developing service offerings and methodologies, and assisting with thought leadership, marketing, and business development efforts.

This role is ideal for a professional who is intellectually curious, comfortable working with data, interested in emerging technologies and artificial intelligence, and eager to develop expertise in corporate compliance.

This is a remote position. While office attendance is encouraged, periodic travel to client sites and company meetings may be required.

Key Responsibilities

Compliance Program Support

• Support assessments of compliance program maturity and effectiveness.
• Assist with risk assessments and the identification of compliance risks and control gaps.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of compliance processes, procedures, and documentation.
• Help prepare client deliverables, presentations, and recommendations.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across client compliance programs.
• Monitor regulatory developments, industry trends, and emerging compliance practices.

Compliance Operations

• Assist in the development and maintenance of compliance program materials, policies, procedures, and operational documentation.
• Support efforts to improve the accessibility of compliance resources.
• Contribute to the creation and administration of compliance training and awareness initiatives.
• Help document and assist with improving compliance workflows and processes.

Data Analytics, Monitoring, and Reporting

• Gather, organize, and analyze data from multiple sources to identify trends, anomalies, and potential risks.
• Support monitoring and testing activities across communications, transactions, and third party risk areas.
• Contribute to the creation of meaningful metrics, identification of data sources and turning the data into dashboards, reports, and visualizations for clients and project teams.
• Help evaluate program effectiveness through the collection and analysis of compliance data.

Technology and Innovation

• Develop familiarity with artificial intelligence capabilities and identify use cases to apply it within compliance programs.
• Support software evaluations, technology implementations, and process improvement initiatives.
• Assist project teams in identifying opportunities to leverage technology and data analytics.

Client Service and Project Delivery

• Collaborate effectively with team members and client personnel across multiple levels of an organization.
• Support project planning, execution, and delivery activities.
• Maintain organized workpapers, project documentation, and version control.
• Handle confidential and sensitive information with professionalism and discretion.
• Participate in internal initiatives, knowledge sharing, and thought leadership activities as opportunities arise.
• Support business development efforts through research, content development, and project support activities.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of professional work experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with data and drawing meaningful conclusions.
• General understanding of risk management principles and risk mitigating controls.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Exposure to artificial intelligence, automation tools, or data visualization technologies.

Preferred

• Prior consulting experience.
• Exposure to corporate compliance, ethics, legal, risk, audit, governance, or related functions.
• Familiarity with anti-corruption and data protection, including third party due diligence, data privacy impact assessments and data subject access requests.
• Familiarity with compliance technology platforms, workflow tools, reporting solutions, or analytics tools.
• Interest in regulatory developments and corporate compliance leading practices.

Salary & Benefits

Your specific salary will be determined based on several factors:

• Location-based market rate for the role
• Your abilities in relation to the job specification
• Performance during screening and interview
• Pay parity with the wider team in the considered location

Further details about the package will be provided during the initial screening call with the Talent Acquisition Team.

Epiq Leadership Compass

Fosters Relationships & Collaboration

Builds trust and alignment through open communication, shared goals, and strong partnerships to drive collective success.

• Build trust-based partnerships
• Nurture long-term relationships
• Remove collaboration barriers
• Celebrate cross-team success

Engages & Influences

Inspires action and alignment through clear communication, purposeful influence, and a compelling vision.

• Use storytelling to build buy-in
• Align communication with organizational goals
• Guild alignment through strong engagement

Maximizes Performance

Sets and reinforces performance standards that drive results, ensure accountability, and align with Epiq's goals.

• Use data to identify improvement opportunities
• Make informed decisions
• Align team goals with boarder strategy
• Empower teams to manage their own goals
• Translate vision into clear priorities
• Prepare for disruptions with strong change management

Achieves Operational Success

Drives continuous improvement and operational excellence through smart processes, data insights, and quality execution.

• Improve workflows for team efficiency
• Use clear documentation and expectations
• Resolve issues quickly using data and feedback

It is Epiq's policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual's race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. In addition Epiq will take affirmative action for minorities, women, covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. Pursuant to relevant law, where applicable, Epiq will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.