Human Capital - Compliance Lead

KKR's Gurugram office provides best in class services and solutions to our internal stakeholders and clients, drives organization wide process efficiency and transformation, and reflects KKR's global culture and values of teamwork and innovation. The office contains multifunctional business capabilities and is integral in furthering the growth and transformation of KKR.

Position Overview
KKR is seeking an experienced risk, controls, and compliance professional to strengthen and unify the existing risk and controls work across People Operations into a consistent, scalable global compliance strategy. Based in Gurugram, this role supports all regions globally, partnering across time zones and operating models to help ensure HR processes, systems, and operations are compliant, auditable, and scalable across the employee lifecycle.
Working closely with HRIS (Workday), Legal, Privacy, Audit, and People Operations leaders worldwide, the role will 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 is a strategic, hands-on role requiring strong judgment and rigorous documentation, with accountability for providing senior leadership clear global visibility into control health, emerging risks, and remediation progress through dashboards and targeted reporting.

Role Context
This role sits within HC Operations to ensure direct ownership of operational controls across HR processes. Unlike traditional compliance oversight roles, this position is responsible for translating compliance requirements into how work is actually executed-ithin Workday, approval workflows, and HR operations processes such as onboarding, payroll, and benefits.
The role requires deep integration with the teams running these processes, with the authority and credibility to influence design decisions and drive changes. When audits occur, this role ensures readiness, owns evidence, and drives remediation to closure.

Key Responsibilities
•    Maintain the global People Operations controls inventory in partnership with process owners, including control taxonomy, ownership, evidence standards, and testing cadence.
•    Partner with HRIS to embed and sustain key controls in Workday and related HR systems (e.g., approvals, role-based access, segregation of duties, audit logs) aligned to agreed governance standards.
•    Lead the People Operations audit readiness and coordination effort globally: support internal and external audits, ensure consistent evidence management, track findings, and drive timely remediation with root-cause resolution.
•    Establish and maintain privacy and records-management controls across the employee lifecycle (retention/deletion, DSAR support, incident response coordination) in partnership with Legal/Privacy and regional stakeholders.
•    Develop and publish dashboards, risk heatmaps, and control-health reporting for senior leadership; identify trends, highlight emerging risks, and escalate material issues through defined governance forums.
•    Implement a risk and controls review for HR process and system changes (new modules, major enhancements, policy/process redesign), ensuring control impacts are assessed and requirements are built into delivery plans.
•    Stay current on relevant regulatory and policy developments (data protection and employment-related operational requirements) and translate them into updates to controls, standards, and guidance in partnership with Legal/Privacy/Audit.
•    Define and run the operating rhythm for ongoing controls management (testing schedule, access recertifications, exception handling, issue logging, remediation tracking, and documentation refresh).

Skills and Qualifications

Required
•    8+ years’ experience in HR operations risk & controls, HR compliance, operational risk, internal audit, or
governance roles within a complex, global organisation.
•    Demonstrated ability to build and mature a controls operating model (controls inventory, ownership model, evidence standards, testing cadence, issue management, reporting) across multiple regions and stakeholders.
•    Strong working knowledge of privacy and records-management requirements and how to operationalise them across the employee lifecycle (retention/deletion, DSAR support, incident response coordination).
•    Experience partnering with HRIS/technology teams to implement controls in systems, including role-based access, approvals, audit logging, and segregation of duties concepts.
•    Proven ability to support internal/external audits, manage evidence expectations, and translate findings into practical remediation plans with clear accountability and closure criteria.
•    Strong analytical and communication skills, with experience producing control-health reporting and senior-leadership-ready dashboards.
•    Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills in a matrixed, global environment; able to drive alignment without creating unnecessary friction.
•    High integrity and discretion; experienced handling sensitive employee data and confidential matters.

Preferred
•    Workday experience (or comparable enterprise HCM platform), including exposure to security role design/access governance.
•    Experience operating in a regulated environment (e.g., financial services, insurance) and supporting multi-jurisdiction requirements.
•    Familiarity with governance / control frameworks and routines (e.g., RCSA concepts, control testing cadence, issue management disciplines).
•    Relevant certifications such as CIPP/E, CIPM, CIA, CISA, CRISC (or equivalent).

Competencies for Success
•    Strategic mindset: Translates risk and control requirements into practical operating routines aligned to business goals.
•    Systems thinking: Understands how HR operations, technology, compliance, and risk intersect; designs end-to-end frameworks that scale globally.
•    Influencing & partnering: Builds strong partnerships across HR, HRIS/IT, Legal/Privacy, Audit, and business stakeholders to embed controls without creating friction.
•    Analytical & action-oriented: Identifies control gaps, prioritises remediation, tracks metrics, and drives continuous improvement.
•    Operational discipline: Establishes clear governance and cadence (testing, evidence, issue management) and drives follow-through across a matrixed organisation.
•    Integrity & discretion: Handles sensitive employee and firm information with maturity, confidentiality, and sound judgment.
•    Communication & reporting: Produces clear dashboards and narratives; briefs senior leadership on risk posture, control health, and remediation progress.