Risk Management and Compliance Specialist

COSCO Shipping (North America) is seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Risk Management & Compliance specialist to join our team in the Secaucus, NJ office. In this role, you will play a critical part in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks across the organization's operations while ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations. Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Risk Identification: Proactively identifying potential risks across different areas of the Company’s operation through data analysis, stakeholder feedback, and external information scanning.
• Risk Assessment: Analyzing the likelihood and potential impact of identified risks to prioritize them for mitigation.
• Risk Mitigation Planning: Developing strategies to address identified risks, including preventive measures, contingency plans, and risk transfer mechanisms.
• Risk Monitoring: Continuously tracking and reviewing risks (including external information scanning) to identify changes in risk profiles and ensure mitigation strategies are effective.
• Risk Reporting: Prepare various risk related management related report for senior management review.
• Communicating risk information to relevant stakeholders, including senior management, various department managers, management of our subsidiary companies and colleagues and through clear and concise reports.
• Compliance Management: Ensuring adherence to relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards related to risk management.
• Assist Department manager in conducting compliance review and various audits.
• Risk Register Maintenance: Maintaining a comprehensive record of identified risks, their associated mitigation plans, and responsible parties.

Additional Qualifications or requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree
• Legal Education Preferred
• Prior risk management and compliance working experience a plus
• Prior law firm working experience a plus
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Fluent in Mandarin Chinese a must (both reading and writing)

What We Offer:

• Comprehensive health coverage – medical, dental, and vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) – for healthcare and dependent care expenses
• Commuter benefits – support for mass transit and parking
• 401(k) retirement plan – with a 100% company match up to 6%
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Annual Discretionary Bonus – based on individual and company performance
• Company-paid life insurance – with optional additional coverage
• Fully covered short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – confidential personal and work-life support