Compliance & Due Diligence Analyst

Location: Houston Area, TX
Compensation: $77,000 - $82,500 Base Salary

Our client, a global energy company, is seeking a Compliance & Due Diligence Analyst to support its corporate compliance and ethics program. This role will focus heavily on third-party due diligence, risk assessments, compliance investigations, training initiatives, and compliance operations within an international business environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct third-party and counterparty due diligence reviews and present findings and recommendations to compliance, legal, and business stakeholders.
• Evaluate vendors, suppliers, business partners, and counterparties for potential compliance, regulatory, sanctions, and reputational risks.
• Support ongoing monitoring of third parties, including review of supporting documentation, activity reports, and compliance-related records.
• Manage KYC documentation requests and screening processes.
• Assist with compliance investigations, interviews, fact gathering, and report preparation.
• Support enterprise risk assessments, including risk identification, remediation tracking, and follow-up activities.
• Assist with privacy-related compliance initiatives and policy implementation.
• Partner with Legal, Human Resources, Internal Audit, Supply Chain, and other business functions on compliance initiatives.
• Support compliance training and awareness programs.
• Drive process improvements, automation initiatives, and compliance-related data analytics efforts.
• Respond to day-to-day ethics and compliance inquiries from internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; JD, CCEP, or CCEP-I certification preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in compliance, ethics, risk management, internal audit, SOX compliance, legal, consulting, or related functions.
• Hands-on experience conducting commercial third-party due diligence within a corporate, consulting, audit, legal, professional services, or industry setting.
• Experience reviewing vendors, suppliers, customers, distributors, contractors, joint venture partners, or other private-sector counterparties for compliance, integrity, and reputational risks.
• Strong preference for candidates with corporate due diligence experience rather than government, law enforcement, intelligence, public sector, or security-focused investigative backgrounds.
• Experience supporting compliance programs, risk assessments, internal controls, SOX initiatives, or broader corporate governance efforts.
• Exposure to anti-bribery and corruption, FCPA, sanctions, privacy, conflicts of interest, or related regulatory compliance areas is preferred.
• Strong analytical, organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while managing sensitive and confidential information.
• Highly preferred: Prior compliance, ethics, risk, audit, SOX, or internal controls experience within the energy, LNG, oil & gas, or broader industrial sector.
• Candidates from consulting, legal, audit, or professional services backgrounds with relevant compliance experience are encouraged to apply.

This opportunity offers broad exposure to corporate compliance, ethics, investigations, third-party risk management, sanctions, anti-corruption, privacy, SOX/internal controls, and compliance operations within a growing global organization.