People & Culture Specialist - Compliance & Governance

Are you highly organized, detail-oriented, and relentless in driving accountability, audit remediation, and control excellence across a complex global environment?
Partner with the bestBaker Hughes is a global energy technology company serving customers across more than 120 countries.
Our People & Culture (P&C) function plays a critical role in enabling business success by delivering scalable, compliant, and high-quality people solutions across a complex, global environment.
The P&C – Compliance & Governance supports the execution of People & Culture (P&C) governance, internal controls, compliance, and audit-related activities.
This role plays a key part in monitoring control effectiveness, coordinating audit and remediation activities, maintaining governance documentation, and ensuring P&C processes remain compliant, auditable, and aligned with company requirements.
While the primary focus of the role is Internal Controls & Compliance (ICC), the position also provides support for P&C Policy Governance and P&C M&A Due Diligence & Integration initiatives as business needs arise.
Fuel your passionThe P&C Specialist – Compliance & Governance will be part of the People & Culture Compliance & Governance team and play a key role in supporting the execution and continuous improvement of P&C internal controls, compliance, and governance activities.
This role is best suited for a detail-oriented, analytical, and highly organized professional who thrives on driving accountability, coordinating complex activities, and ensuring commitments are completed in a timely and sustainable manner.
The position will primarily support Internal Controls & Compliance (ICC) activities, including audit readiness, remediation tracking, governance monitoring, and control effectiveness reviews.
The role will also have opportunities to contribute to P&C Policy Governance and P&C M&A Due Diligence & Integration initiatives.
As a P&C Quality Assurance Specialist, you will help with:Supporting the execution and monitoring of P&C internal controls to ensure compliance with regulatory, audit, and governance requirements.
Coordinating internal and external audit activities, including evidence collection, documentation management, stakeholder engagement, and audit response tracking.
Tracking audit findings, remediation plans, corrective actions, and closure evidence to support timely and sustainable issue resolution.
Supporting control testing, governance reviews, approval matrix validation, and control effectiveness monitoring activities.
Identifying process gaps, control weaknesses, and compliance risks, while supporting root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
Maintaining governance documentation, control inventories, trackers, dashboards, metrics, and leadership reporting related to controls and compliance.
Supporting the governance, review, maintenance, and publication of P&C policies, standards, and related documentation.
Assisting with P&C due diligence, integration, and separation activities related to mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other business transformation initiatives.
To be successful in this role, you will require to have:Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Human Resources, Business, Risk Management, Compliance, Internal Audit, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field.
Experience in internal controls, compliance, governance, audit support, risk management, process improvement, shared services, or related operational environments.
Experience coordinating audits, managing remediation activities, maintaining documentation, and tracking deliverables through closure.
Ability to review policies, procedures, controls, approvals, process documentation, and supporting evidence to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities, stakeholders, and deadlines simultaneously.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root cause assessment skills.
Effective stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and follow through on commitments across all organizational levels.
Fluent English communication skills, both written and verbal.
PreferredProficiency in Excel and PowerPoint for reporting, dashboard creation, tracking, and executive-level presentations.
Experience with Workday, ServiceNow, SharePoint, Power BI, Tableau, audit management tools, or other HR and governance systems.
Knowledge of internal controls, audit methodologies, policy governance, M&A integration, compliance frameworks, or project management practices.
Lean, Six Sigma, Audit, Risk, Compliance, or Project Management certification is an advantage.
Work in a way that works for youWe recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best varies.
This role offers hybrid working options.
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