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Compliance Managers

$128.62K Median Salary 79.2K Job Openings (Annual Projection) 8% Job Growth

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About This Career

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities of an organization to ensure compliance with ethical or regulatory standards.

Reported Job Titles

Accreditation Lieutenant, Accreditation Manager, Compliance Director, Compliance Manager, Compliance Operations Manager, Environmental Health and Safety Director, Environmental Manager, Environmental Program Manager, Health, Safety, and Environmental Manager (HSE Manager), Risk Manager

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Abilities

Oral Expression

Problem Sensitivity

Written Expression

Deductive Reasoning

Inductive Reasoning

Oral Comprehension

Written Comprehension

Near Vision

Speech Clarity

Information Ordering

Speech Recognition

Category Flexibility

Far Vision

Fluency of Ideas

Selective Attention

Knowledge

Law and Government

English Language

Administration and Management

Customer and Personal Service

Personnel and Human Resources

Computers and Electronics

Education and Training

Administrative

Public Safety and Security

Skills

Critical Thinking

Reading Comprehension

Active Listening

Speaking

Writing

Active Learning

Coordination

Monitoring

Persuasion

Judgment and Decision Making

Social Perceptiveness

Instructing

Complex Problem Solving

Learning Strategies

Systems Analysis

Negotiation

Systems Evaluation

Time Management

Service Orientation

Technology Skills

Electronic mail software

Presentation software

Compliance software

Internet browser software

Analytical or scientific software

Risk management data and analysis software

Spreadsheet software

Medical software

Accounting software

Document management software

Tax preparation software

Office suite software

Cloud-based data access and sharing software

Operating system software

Word processing software

Data base management system software

Data base reporting software

Human resources software

Data base user interface and query software

Project management software

Calendar and scheduling software

Process mapping and design software

Information retrieval or search software

Desktop publishing software

Tools

Photocopiers

Notebook computers

Laser printers

Special purpose telephones

Laser fax machine

Desktop computers

Personal computers

Abilities

Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

Knowledge

Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
Administrative: Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

Skills

Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.

Technology Skills

Electronic mail software: IBM Notes; Microsoft Exchange; Microsoft Outlook
Presentation software: Microsoft PowerPoint
Compliance software: ESS Compliance Suite; Mannus Compliance: EHS; Primatech AUDITWorks
Internet browser software: Web browser software
Analytical or scientific software: Statistical analysis software; TapRooT
Risk management data and analysis software: ArcSight Enterprise Threat and Risk Management; McAfee Enterprise Security Manager
Spreadsheet software: Microsoft Excel
Medical software: Henry Schein Dentrix; Medical condition coding software; Medical procedure coding software; MEDITECH software
Accounting software: Billing software; Bookkeeping software; Intuit QuickBooks; Sage 50 Accounting
Document management software: Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat; Filing system software; Records management software; Transcription system software
Tax preparation software: ATX Total Tax Office; Creative Solutions UltraTax CS; Intuit TurboTax; Petz Enterprises V-Tax
Office suite software: Microsoft Office software
Cloud-based data access and sharing software: Dropbox; Google Drive; Microsoft SharePoint
Operating system software: Microsoft Windows
Word processing software: 3M Post-it App; Evernote; Google Docs; Microsoft Word
Data base management system software: Apache Solr; Elasticsearch; MySQL
Data base reporting software: SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports
Human resources software: ADP Workforce Now
Data base user interface and query software: Blackboard software; Database software; Microsoft Access; Yardi software
Project management software: Mavenlink; Microsoft Project
Calendar and scheduling software: Appointment scheduling software
Process mapping and design software: Microsoft Visio
Information retrieval or search software: LexisNexis
Desktop publishing software: Adobe Systems Adobe InDesign; Microsoft Publisher

Tools

Photocopiers: Photocopying equipment
Notebook computers: Laptop computers
Laser printers: Computer laser printers
Special purpose telephones: Multi-line telephone systems
Laser fax machine: Laser facsimile machines
Desktop computers:
Personal computers:

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