Job Description
KKR is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management, capital markets, and insurance solutions. KKR is seeking an experienced Human Capital - Compliance Lead to strengthen and unify the existing risk and controls work across People Operations into a consistent and scalable global compliance strategy. Based in Gurugram, this role supports all regions globally and partners across time zones and operating models to ensure HR processes, systems, and operations are compliant, auditable, and scalable across the employee lifecycle.
The role works closely with HRIS (Workday), Legal, Privacy, Audit, and People Operations leaders worldwide to consolidate the HR controls landscape by aligning documentation and evidence standards, defining testing cadence and governance, and embedding preventive and detective controls into process and system design. The successful candidate will translate regulatory and audit expectations into practical requirements that strengthen control discipline while enabling efficient operations. This strategic and hands-on role requires strong judgment and rigorous documentation while providing senior leadership with visibility into control health, emerging risks, and remediation progress through dashboards and reporting.
Responsibilities include maintaining the global People Operations controls inventory, partnering with HRIS teams to embed controls within Workday and related HR systems, leading audit readiness and coordination globally, managing privacy and records-management controls throughout the employee lifecycle, developing risk heatmaps and control-health dashboards, implementing risk reviews for HR process and system changes, monitoring regulatory developments, and driving governance activities including testing schedules, access recertifications, exception handling, issue management, remediation tracking, and documentation updates.
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in HR operations risk and controls, HR compliance, operational risk, internal audit, or governance roles within complex global organizations. Experience with Workday, privacy regulations, audit management, stakeholder engagement, risk frameworks, and regulated industries such as financial services is highly preferred. KKR operates in the Investment Management and Financial Services industry and employs more than 10,000 professionals globally.
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