What comes first? Building a compliance function with purpose and priority

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Are you in a new compliance management or leadership role, tasked with building a team or function and unsure where to begin? Do you start with regulatory obligations and a gap analysis, existing policies and frameworks, governance, structure, budget and resourcing, or the issues you have inherited? Should you consider automation and tools, do you buy or build? What about external support, do you need to first outsource, and what must stay in house?  

The Compliance function should be proportionate and dynamic, not static. With competing demands from boards, executives, regulators, and the business, knowing what comes first and why is often the hardest part. The early decisions you make shape everything that follows.  

Join Rosalind Dixon-Burnett, ICA Head of Training, Education and Development and Global Lead of GRC, for a practical discussion on how to build a compliance function with intent, establish clear priorities, and lay foundations that support credibility, influence, collaboration, and long-term effectiveness.  

The live webinar will explore: 

• Defining purpose and mandate, including what compliance is there to achieve and how progress should be measured.  
• Establishing the starting point, including regulatory obligations, key risks, and where effort will have the greatest impact.  
• Prioritising with discipline, including what comes first, what can wait, and how to avoid spreading compliance too thin.  
• Designing the function, including team structure, sequencing of roles, and hiring the right profiles at the right time.  
• Building capability and oversight, including training, reporting, and monitoring that support early issue identification and informed decision making.  
• Making smart use of tools and support, including automation, buy versus build decisions, outsourcing, and what must remain in house.  
• Embedding culture, including how compliance shapes behaviour, accountability, and trust across the organisation. 

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