Compliance Assistant
// Role Summary
Join BAE Systems as a Compliance Assistant and play a vital role in supporting export control compliance activities. This onsite role in Rochester, Kent, offers the opportunity to apply your expertise, resolve complex issues, and contribute to shaping a safer future.
// Key Responsibilities
- Support UK, US, and global export control compliance, including licensing and record-keeping.
- Assist with licence applications and export control processes.
- Contribute to training, communications, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Provide flexible support across compliance and legal activities.
- Requires strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- Must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS).
// Role Specification
About BAE Systems
Join BAE Systems and become part of a global network dedicated to pioneering progress and protecting what matters most. We deliver advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace, and security solutions, shaping a safer future for all. Your career here can span from the ocean depths to the far reaches of space.
About the Role: Compliance Assistant
We are looking for a detail-oriented and collaborative professional with a strong understanding of export control principles and company policy. In this role, you will apply your knowledge to support compliance activities, resolve a broad range of issues, and provide guidance within your area of expertise. Working as part of a closely connected team, you will contribute to shared objectives while managing your own responsibilities independently. You will engage with stakeholders across the business, support continuous improvement, and deliver solutions aligned to organisational priorities, leveraging your understanding of the business and its products.
Core Duties:
- Support management of UK, US, and global export control compliance, including licensing activities, record-keeping, and compliance checks.
- Maintain compliance registers and shared mailboxes, ensuring accurate records, timely follow-ups, and efficient administration.
- Assist with licence applications, authorisations, and export control processes to support business operations.
- Contribute to training, communications, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen compliance standards across the business.
- Provide flexible support across compliance and legal activities, including research, documentation, investigations, and process improvement projects.
Essential Skills:
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to work effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail, particularly in maintaining and managing compliance records.
- Proven experience handling sensitive and confidential information, ensuring adherence to data protection and security requirements.
- Competent in Microsoft Office applications, with the ability to use them efficiently in a professional environment.
The Compliance Team
As an Export Control Assistant, you will work with numerous business functions to provide day-to-day guidance on compliance issues, with a particular emphasis on meeting UK & US Export Control regulations and appropriate corporate/local policies. Within the Compliance Team, you will collaborate to seek and introduce best practices and drive compliance-related continuous improvement initiatives. You will apply your subject matter expertise in an area of Export Control, including application or development of policy and procedure, or resolution of problems and issues in complex, sensitive/difficult, high risk/impact situations.
Why BAE Systems?
Build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. We offer lifelong learning, meaningful work, and the confidence to grow. You'll be recognised for your contributions and enjoy tailored rewards, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, and a balanced lifestyle. Join a supportive culture with a strong sense of shared purpose, where you can thrive and make a difference.
Inclusivity at BAE Systems
We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We believe that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to our work.
Important Information Regarding Security and Export Control
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must, as a minimum, achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK, depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.