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$70K - 90K a year
Identify, assess, mitigate, monitor, and report risks while ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, maintaining risk registers, and assisting with audits.
Bachelor's degree required, legal education preferred, prior risk management or law firm experience a plus, excellent communication skills, and fluent Mandarin reading and writing required.
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
This job posting was last updated on 12/8/2025