Principal Counsel, Global Ethics and Compliance

This is a Full Time Job


The Principal Counsel-North America will support the Assistant General Counsel-North America in implementing the Company's ethics, anticorruption, and related compliance policies and procedures in the Company's businesses located in North America and advancing the Company's business priorities while ensuring that it conducts business in a manner that is consistent with its core values, its Standards of Business Conduct (SOBC), other compliance policies, and applicable law. The Principal Counsel-North America will provide the region's varied and diverse businesses with responsive, practical advice regarding ethics, anticorruption, and related compliance, assist with GECM-led internal investigations in the region, participate in risk assessments to ensure that the Company identifies and mitigates risks in the areas of bribery and corruption, oversee anticorruption compliance diligence and monitoring processes, and partner with the Company's management audit department on designated ethics and compliance audits. The role will report to the Assistant General Counsel-North America, and will assist the department in developing and administering the Company's robust global ethics and compliance program.

Responsibilities:

• Provide advice and counsel to all businesses across Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Parks, Experiences and Products located in North America regarding the Company's Standards of Business Conduct (SOBC), anti-corruption laws, and other compliance policies.
• Collaborate with business partners in the North American region to advance the Company's business priorities while ensuring that it conducts business in a manner that is consistent with its core values, its SOBC, other compliance policies, and applicable laws.
• Assist with anti-corruption risk assessments.
• Monitor regional legal and regulatory developments, particularly with respect to enforcement trends involving the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to ensure that the Company is in compliance with the dynamic regulatory environment in the areas of bribery, corruption, and related subject matters.
• Assist with GECM-led internal investigations and remediation as needed.
• Partner with the Company's management audit department on annual ethics and compliance audits and other audits as needed.
• Complete due diligence of certain third-party business partners and vendors.
• Manage compliance workflows and processes, assessing levels of risk, implementing controls, and tracking due diligence, training, contracts, and approvals of third parties.
• Assist with the implementation of compliance training and awareness.
• Provide tailored, practical ethics and anticorruption training to the North American region's businesses and other stakeholders.
• Review government official advantages and donation requests to ensure compliance with local statutory regimes and the Company's policies.
• Actively participate in the drafting and implementation of GECM policy updates.
• Collaborate with GECM team members across the globe in developing and administering the Company's robust global ethics and compliance program.
• Lead special projects and other ethics and compliance related initiatives as needed.
• Participate in DEI initiatives to support the Company's goals and provide more visibility of GECM.
• Travel domestically as needed.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of eight (8) years' experience in providing complex legal and compliance advice, with a focus on anticorruption matters.
• Superior analytical skills and strategic thinking, including ability to assess and present arguments to higher-level attorneys and business partners to help shape strategic decisions.
• Thorough understanding of the region's bribery and corruption regulatory regimes and demonstrated ability to keep up with emerging trends in the areas of bribery, corruption, and related subject matters.
• Experience in conducting internal investigations, including conducting witness interviews, and collecting, managing, and preserving electronically stored information.
• Organizational skills and experience setting priorities, problem-solving, multi-tasking, and a self-starter who works well independently and in a team in a dynamic, rapidly changing workplace.
• Excellent interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional fluency in a second language.

Required Education:

• JD or equivalent from an accredited law school
• Membership in the California State Bar in good standing or willingness and qualification to be Registered In-House Counsel

Additional Information:

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The hiring range for this position in California is $205,700.00 - $266,000.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.