Compliance Analyst

At Aperam, our Legal & Compliance team operates as a single global organization of experienced and committed experts, actively involved in all strategic and operational activities of the Aperam Group. We partner closely with the business across all regions, ensuring pragmatic, high-quality, and forward-looking support in a fast-evolving environment.

We are a lean, collaborative, and highly integrated team, working as one team across borders (Europe, Brazil, and beyond). Diversity, trust, transparency, and personal development are at the heart of how we operate. We value open dialogue, knowledge sharing, and collective intelligence, seeking to deliver excellence while continuously developing our people. Joining us means being part of a team that invests in your growth, encourages autonomy, empowers you to take ownership, and provides real opportunities to expand your skills, responsibilities, and international exposure.

If you are looking for a dynamic environment where you can make a meaningful impact, grow as a professional, and contribute to shaping the future of a truly global Legal & Compliance function, this job opportunity is for you.

Aperam is committed to deploy and embed a compliance mindset by promoting a spirit and culture of individual and collective responsibility and an understanding and adherence to the Aperam policies and values at the company’s core in order to protect Aperam from the disrespect of internal and external standards.

To accomplish this mission, the Compliance team is in charge of:

Defining, planning, implementing and overseeing compliance risk-related programs including the third party due diligence process

Coordinating and scheduling required compliance trainings for employees

• Supporting the Compliance officer in the implementation of the Compliance program within the group
• Perform due diligence reviews for suppliers and customers of Aperam in close collaboration with the sales, purchasing and sourcing teams around the world and based on the analysis of:
  • Country risk (Economic sanctions on the country or embargo, Non cooperative jurisdictions)
  • Activity risk (sectors linked to authorities and public agencies, state owned companies)
  • Ethical risk (ethical scandals, sanctions on individuals, Politically Exposed Persons)
  • Transactions (size of the business, date of creation, atypical currencies, bank location…)
• Take part in cross-functional projects to ensure global consistency across entities (CSRD, integration of new sectors, etc.)
• Participate in the deployment of Compliance training for Aperam employees worldwide and coordinate the follow up of those trainings, including the follow up of KPIs and the communication with the Compliance correspondents network
• Provide support to the business teams as such reviewing compliance related matters in contracts with our stakeholders
• Create development and implementation of compliance awareness trainings
  

• Ideally graduated from a law school or economic school with legal experience
• First experience ideally in industry or in Legal or Compliance departments
• English speaking
• Collaborative and excellent communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills, creativity, empathy and the ability to act as a genuine business partner
• Ability to work autonomously while managing a wide variety of projects in parallel
• Demonstrated leadership, collaborative mindset and ability to influence without formal authority
• Customer-oriented and proactive team player, comfortable working in cross-functional environments
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of building strong relationships with non-lawyers and senior stakeholders
• Ability to align legal expertise with commercial and strategic business objectives
• Customer Mindset: think customer first, understand markets and stakeholders, build long-term partnerships, and maintain a solution-oriented approach
• Continuous improvement: seek efficiency and simplification, challenge the status quo and pursue process improvements every day