About the position

This role is responsible for managing and providing strategic leadership for compliance and ethics programs within PPL Corporation. The Principal Compliance and Ethics role focuses on managing activities such as risk assessments, policy development, regulatory monitoring, investigations, communications, and internal controls. The Senior Principal Compliance and Ethics role provides strategic leadership for these programs across assigned subsidiaries and business units, driving continuous improvement and leading initiatives to ensure adherence to regulatory and company requirements. Both roles work with cross-functional teams to identify and mitigate risks, resolve compliance issues, promote ethical behavior, and support a strong culture of integrity and compliance across the organization. The Senior Principal role is recognized as an expert/thought leader in the compliance and ethics profession.

Responsibilities

• Oversee compliance and ethics programs, including specialized regulatory programs, ensuring policies, procedures, and controls are implemented across business units and aligned with requirements.
• Manage compliance monitoring activities, including audits, assessments, litigation support and reporting processes, to ensure timely identification and resolution of compliance issues.
• Integrate compliance processes and systems across functions to improve coordination, visibility, and consistency in compliance and ethics activities.
• Optimize compliance performance by monitoring key metrics, identifying trends, and implementing improvements to strengthen risk management and program effectiveness.
• Develop and standardize compliance policies, procedures, and training materials to ensure understanding and application across the organization.
• Expand collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders to resolve compliance issues and enhance overall program effectiveness.
• Support compliance communication and training programs that enhance awareness, engagement, and understanding of compliance and ethics requirements and expectations.
• Lead enterprise-wide compliance initiatives to strengthen regulatory adherence and organizational culture.
• Oversee preparation and consolidation of compliance and ethics reports, including investigations and key risk indicators, for review by senior leadership.
• Manage the investigation process to respond to alleged violations of law, regulations, policies, and procedures, including conducting investigations as appropriate.
• Identify potential areas of compliance and ethics vulnerability and risk and assist with program updates to rank the relative compliance risks faced by assigned area.
• Assist with the development and presentation of internal compliance and ethics updates.
• Strategize the enterprise compliance and ethics vision by aligning regulatory requirements, corporate values, and operational practices to strengthen organizational integrity.
• Function as the compliance program lead for assigned subsidiaries, business units and/or locations with respect to all PPL compliance and ethics efforts.
• Support the compliance and ethics programs by developing, maintaining, and communicating compliance policies, controls, and governance frameworks that prevent illegal, unethical and improper conduct and ensure adherence across business units.
• Sponsor and lead enterprise-wide compliance initiatives to strengthen regulatory adherence and organizational culture.
• Develop and support compliance communication and training programs that enhance awareness, engagement, and understanding of compliance and ethics regulatory requirements and expectations.
• Integrate data governance, reporting systems, and performance metrics to improve visibility, accountability, and program effectiveness.
• Maintain expertise in compliance and ethics programs and support the development, periodic review and update of the corporate compliance and ethics program to ensure continuing currency and relevance in providing guidance to management and employees.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to maintain and nurture culture of compliance and ethics.
• Monitor, and as necessary, coordinate compliance and ethics activities of other departments to remain abreast of the status of relevant compliance and ethics activities.
• Identify potential areas of compliance and ethics vulnerability and risk and assist with program updates to rank the relative compliance risks faced by assigned subsidiaries/business lines.
• Assist with the development and presentation of compliance and ethics updates to senior leadership and the Audit Committee, including risk exposures, investigation outcomes, and program effectiveness insights.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree is required.
• 15 years of experience with regulatory or legal issues (Principal role).
• 20 years of experience (Senior Principal role).
• Ability to engage and influence.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with internal investigations (Principal role).
• Experience in compliance programs (Principal role).
• Extensive experience in regulatory or legal issues (Senior Principal role).
• Experience with internal investigations preferred (Senior Principal role).
• Experience in compliance programs preferred (Senior Principal role).

Nice-to-haves

• Master's or Law Degree is preferred.