Job Description
The Compliance Manager oversees prevailing wage and apprenticeship compliance for Nexamp's clean energy construction projects, leading a team of analysts to ensure regulatory adherence, manage investigations, and implement quality control measures in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise, mentor, and develop a team of Compliance Analysts
- Oversee certified payroll review processes for accuracy and defensibility
- Monitor apprenticeship utilization, ratio compliance, and prevailing wage determinations
- Implement quality control procedures to improve compliance documentation
- Manage subcontractor engagement on complex compliance matters
- Exercise authority in high-risk or disputed compliance determinations
- Ensure timely resolution of underpayments, restitution, and corrective actions
- Lead investigations into alleged wage, fringe benefit, and apprenticeship violations
- Validate audit methodologies and ensure complete, defensible documentation
- Identify systemic compliance risks and recommend control improvements
- Monitor and assess impact of federal and state labor law updates
- Lead implementation of regulatory changes into internal controls and training
- Prepare compliance reports on trends, findings, and remediation status
Requirements
- Four years of experience in compliance and regulatory auditing.
- Demonstrated ability to lead compliance reviews, make defensible regulatory determinations, and oversee resolution of complex compliance matters.
- Experience supervising audits and investigations, reviewing underpayment calculations, and ensuring defensible documentation standards.
- Advanced ability to analyze large payroll datasets, identify patterns of risk, and maintain structured compliance tracking systems.
- Ability to use standard computer programs, including Microsoft Office Suite and particularly Excel.
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university, preferably in Accounting, Law or Legal Studies, Business Administration, Public Administration or a related field.
- Experience in overseeing and ensuring prevailing wage enforcement.
- Experience in renewable energy, construction compliance, or federally funded projects.
- Experience with certified payroll platforms.
- Ability to supervise, mentor, and develop a team of 5-10 Compliance Analysts.
- Ability to provide coaching to ensure consistent application of regulatory standards and enforcement practices.
- Ability to oversee certified payroll review processes to ensure accuracy, consistency, and defensibility.
- Ability to ensure proper monitoring of apprenticeship utilization, ratio compliance, and prevailing wage determinations.
- Ability to implement quality control procedures to reduce errors and strengthen compliance documentation.
- Ability to oversee subcontractor engagement on complex or escalated compliance matters.
- Ability to exercise professional authority in high-risk or disputed compliance determinations.
- Ability to ensure timely resolution of underpayments, restitution, and corrective actions.
- Ability to escalate material risks to the Director with clear recommendations and impact analysis.
- Ability to oversee investigations into alleged prevailing wage, fringe benefit, and apprenticeship violations.
- Ability to validate audit methodologies and ensure documentation is complete and defensible.
- Ability to identify systemic compliance risks and recommend control enhancements.
- Ability to monitor federal and state labor law updates and assess impact on company practices.
- Ability to lead implementation of regulatory changes into internal controls, processes, and training materials.
- Ability to prepare monthly compliance reports summarizing trends, findings, financial exposure, and remediation status.
- Ability to translate technical compliance risks into clear business impact summaries for leadership.
- Commitment to Nexamp’s mission and a passion for solving climate crisis issues.
- Demonstrated experience in effectively communicating information, ideas, and perspectives with people inside and beyond the organization.
- Experience in showcasing initiative to improve current work, processes, products, and services across the organization.
- Strong accountability and ownership mentality.
- Ability to ask appropriate questions, analyze data, identify root causes of problems, and present creative solutions.
- Expertise in building strong internal and external relationships with customers and stakeholders, instilling trust and loyalty.
- Eagerness to develop a fundamental understanding of how Nexamp operates and apply that knowledge to inform business decisions.
Benefits & Perks
Competitive compensation package ranging from 122,000 to 147,000 USD
Participation in incentive programs such as annual bonuses and other performance-based incentives
Eligibility to participate in the company's stock option plan
Health, dental, and vision insurance starting day one
Flexible paid time off and holiday PTO
Commuter benefits
Cell phone reimbursement
401(k) employer-match retirement plan
Healthy snacks and coffee
Service days and volunteer opportunities
Company outings
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