Trade Compliance Senior Specialist

Who we are

VOIS (Vodafone Intelligent Solutions) is a strategic arm of Vodafone Group Plc, creating value for customers by delivering intelligent solutions through Talent, Technology & Transformation.
As the largest shared services organisation in the global telco industry with 30,000 FTE, our portfolio of next-generation solutions and services are designed in partnership with customers across Vodafone Group, local markets, and partner markets to simplify and drive growth. With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient. This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability.
We work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.
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About this Role We are seeking a Trade Compliance Specialist to support Vodafone and VOIS in maintaining compliance with global trade sanctions and export control regulations. This role operates as part of the 2nd Line of Defence, providing expert review, oversight, and decision support for escalations raised by the 1st Line Trade Compliance screening activities. The role is critical to identifying regulatory risk, validating potential sanctions matches, and ensuring appropriate, well-documented compliance actions across business units. What you'll do

• Review and investigate escalations received from the 1st Line Trade Compliance screening to determine whether potential matches are false positives or confirmed true hits.
• Perform detailed due diligence on target entities, including analysing ownership and control structures and producing accurate organigrams.
• Engage with relevant Vodafone internal teams to gather, validate, and assess information related to entities or transactions under review.
• Conduct regulatory restriction analysis for confirmed matches, assessing applicable sanctions or export control regimes and identifying business prohibitions or licensing requirements.
• Raise follow-up questions and perform additional actions in line with Vodafone trade compliance guidance.
• Escalate confirmed true matches to the Trade Sanctions Screening Centre of Excellence Lead for decision-making.
• Clearly document assessments, decisions, and rationale in line with audit and regulatory standards.
• Provide oversight of 1st Line Trade Compliance activities, ensuring quality and adherence to defined processes.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate resolution of flagged cases.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of global sanctions and export control regimes, including OFAC, EU, and UN requirements.
• Support periodic reviews and continuous improvement of trade compliance screening processes.
• Execute data control activities to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with defined activity standards.
• Resolve queries efficiently and ensure work databases are accurately maintained.
• Carry out additional compliance-related tasks as required by business needs or supervisory direction.

Who you are

• An individual with a strong understanding of global export control and trade sanctions regulatory frameworks.
• Experienced in compliance, risk management, or investigative roles, with approximately 3-5 years of relevant experience.
• Confident in conducting in-depth due diligence on complex organisational structures to identify ownership and control accurately.
• Skilled in interpreting legal and regulatory provisions, reviewing sanctions listings, and evaluating transactional and business risk.
• Analytical, detail-oriented, and comfortable working with complex data sets and regulatory information.
• Ideally holding, or working towards, professional certifications such as ICA, CGSS, or CAMS.
• Experienced within a shared services, telecoms, or similarly regulated environment (desirable).

Not a perfect fit?

Concerned you may not meet every requirement? Vodafone is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. If you are excited about this role but your experience does not align exactly with every aspect of the job description, you are encouraged to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or another opportunity, and the recruitment team will support you in exploring where your skills fit best.

What's in it for you

o Hybrid way of working: 2 days from office per week (8 per month)
o Medical and dental services
o Life and hospitalization insurance
o Dedicated employee phone subscription
o Take control of your benefits and choose any of the following options: meal tickets / private pension / vacation vouchers / cultural vouchers - within the budget.
o Special discounts for gyms and retailers
o Annual Company Bonus
o Ongoing Education - we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills
o You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology
o We let you write your own story by planning vacations: go for a trip, experience new things, have fun, and enjoy your 23 days off.
o Special Paternal Program - 4 months of paid paternity leave

What skills you will learn

• Advanced sanctions and export control analysis across multiple regulatory regimes.
• Enhanced due diligence techniques for complex ownership and control structures.
• Strengthened stakeholder engagement and investigative communication skills.
• Improved risk assessment and decision documentation capabilities.
• Deeper understanding of compliance oversight within a 2nd Line of Defence model.

VOIS Equal Opportunity Employer Commitment

Vodafone recognises and celebrates the value of diversity in building a workforce that reflects the customers and communities it serves. No form of discrimination is tolerated. This includes, but is not limited to, discrimination based on race, colour, age, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, ethnicity, disability, religion or belief, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, citizenship, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, neurodiversity, social origin, cultural background, marital or civil partnership status, or socio-economic background.

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