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.

What you’ll be doing?

• 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.

About You

• 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.

Other benefit we offer  
Continuous Learning & Development Programmes – Professional growth is important for our colleagues at Sanderson, which is why we offer training, mentoring and coaching opportunities to develop skills for you to take the right next steps in your career. 
Recognition & Rewards – From long-term service recognition to “Thank you” rewards and access to a Group Bonus Scheme, we like to regularly celebrate and reward our colleagues, letting them know how important they are to us. 
Work-Life Balance Initiatives & Flexible Working – We know that life is all about balance and we all work differently. This is why we offer many benefits around flexible working including a hybrid approach of home working and working from the office. 
Health, Pension & Parental Benefits – We provide a pension scheme and a full range benefits, such as buying or selling holiday days, dental plans, health cash plans and a cycle-to-work scheme. We also offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave. 
Social and CSR Opportunities – We run all sorts of fun and important activities through our internal social committee with our global corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, and fundraising activities. 
Wellbeing – Wellbeing is very important to Sanderson, which is why we offer full access mental health support for you or your family through our provider, Telus. 

About us 
Established 40 years ago, we specialise in recruitment, solutions, consulting, and executive search. Our partnership approach unites our four divisions and sets us apart. 
We value human interactions and lasting relationships, being flexible, agile, and creative. Collaboration is key, as we work together to support each other and our clients. 
Sanderson Solutions offers RPO, MSP, Executive Search, Agency Recruitment, and Project services across various sectors, including Financial Services, Technology, Retail, Government, Defence, and Professional Services. 
We help our clients hire high-quality people who develop quickly, care more, and stay longer. We are committed to building inclusive and diverse teams, welcoming applications from people with varied backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.