Compliance Consultant - Contracts

Compliance Consultant
Sanderson Recruitment – Full Time Permanent
Clifton, Whiteladies Road – Bristol

Job Summary

We’re looking for a people-focused and detail-driven Compliance Consultant to join our Compliance Team. In this role, you’ll play a plays a central role in ensuring a seamless, compliant, and people-first onboarding journey for candidates joining our clients via contract, temporary, or permanent routes.

This role blends attention to detail and regulatory accuracy with customer-centric service delivery. You will act as a key liaison between candidates, recruiters and client services colleagues, ensuring all onboarding tasks are completed to the highest standards of accuracy, efficiency, and care.

Key Responsibilities

• Guiding candidates through the pre-employment screening and onboarding process in a friendly, professional, and timely manner.
• Delivering right-first-time onboarding by ensuring contracts, compliance documentation, and background checks meet client and legal standards.
• Generating, issuing, and administering contracts, offer letters and contract extensions accurately and in line with SLAs.
• Conducting vetting activities including references, Right to Work checks, and client-specific requirements.
• Maintaining accurate records and ensure all systems (SharePoint, CRM, Onboarding platforms) are kept up to date and fully audit ready.
• Flagging and resolve any issues that may impact compliance or onboarding timelines, escalating when needed.
• Embracing a team culture where “one team”, collaboration, ownership, and communication are central to how we work.

Required Skills & Experience

• A relationship-builder who enjoys working with people and supporting them through the onboarding process.
• A confident communicator – both written and verbal – who can liaise professionally with candidates and colleagues.
• You’re proactive, organised and have excellent attention to detail.
• You’re comfortable learning and using systems such as CRMs, contract management tools, and onboarding platforms
• You enjoy working closely with others and thrive in a collaborative environment.

Who are we?

Established 40 years ago, Sanderson Recruitment, offer industry expertise in recruitment, solutions, consulting, and executive search.
Through our UK-wide network of offices we offer support to clients and candidates across a wide range of industry sectors, including Information Technology, Not-for-Profit, Retail and Consumer, Government and Defence, Utilities and Energy, and many more.
The cornerstone of our business is our partnership approach. It’s what brings together our four divisions, and what sets us apart.
This is your chance to build your career with great people. We’re all about human interactions and lasting relationships. We’re flexible, agile and creative. We’re collaborative, working together to understand and support each other and our clients.