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Covering regulatory controls, policy work, internal audits, and AML or GDPR-heavy projects. Bring in experienced compliance leads, officers, or managers who can step into sensitive work quickly and work with vetted, available freelancers.
About the role
Scope of work
A freelance Compliance Manager sets up, reviews, and runs the controls that keep a company aligned with internal rules and external requirements. The work often includes policy updates, control testing, risk registers, incident follow-up, and support for audits or regulator requests.
- Build or update compliance policies and procedures
- Review controls, gaps, and remediation actions
- Prepare audit material and management reporting
- Support training and awareness for business teams
- Coordinate with legal, risk, security, and operations
Typical project work
Companies bring in a Compliance Manager for focused work such as a new compliance framework, a clean-up after audit findings, or support during a product launch, vendor review, or market entry. In Germany, this is common in regulated sectors like finance, insurance, SaaS, healthcare, manufacturing, and shared service environments.
Freelancers may also be asked to act as an interim compliance officer, compliance lead, or regulatory compliance manager when a team is short on capacity or needs specialist oversight for a defined period.
Core skills
Strong Compliance Managers work with structure and calm. They can turn broad rules into practical steps that business teams actually follow.
- Interpret regulations, internal policy, and control requirements
- Run risk assessments and track remediation
- Write clear procedures and governance documents
- Handle stakeholder communication without creating friction
- Work with evidence, traceability, and document control
- Keep pace with changing regulatory demands
Tools and methods
The role often relies on GRC tools, ticketing systems, shared control libraries, audit trackers, and document management platforms. Depending on the project, a freelancer may also work with data from ERP, CRM, security, or vendor systems to test whether controls are actually working.
Good professionals know how to separate critical issues from nice-to-have improvements. They document decisions clearly, close gaps in a practical order, and leave behind a process that the permanent team can keep running.
When to hire one
A freelance Compliance Manager makes sense when the work is urgent, specialized, or temporary. Common triggers are a new regulation rollout, a remediation plan after findings, a due diligence process, or a vacancy in the compliance team.
It also helps when the company needs extra capacity without changing the team structure. In Germany, that is especially useful when local reporting, German-language documentation, or coordination with regional stakeholders matters.
What good looks like
The best candidates are precise, firm, and pragmatic. They do not just point to risk; they help the business resolve it.
- They understand both policy and day-to-day operations
- They can explain requirements in plain language
- They stay organized across many open actions
- They know when to escalate and when to solve directly
- They leave clear ownership and clean documentation
Meet FRATCH Compliance Managers
Kurt Fisch
Technical Editor, CE Coordinator
Last position:
Technical Editor, CE Coordinator at Randstad Professional GmbH / Nippon Gases Deutschland GmbH
- Technical editor, CE coordinator consulting.- Risk assessment of filling systems including Ex area.- Creation of work instructions for filling systems including Ex area.- Review of existing documentation and technical documentation.- Revision of product documentation and checklists.- Editing and checking products based on checklists.
Nico Hirsing
Project Manager Engineering/CapEx/Process Engineering
Last position:
Project Manager Engineering/CapEx/Process Engineering at Sanofi
- Planning, URS/requirements and stakeholder management for a new Greenfield QC building 4000 m²
- Project realization
Uwe Rembor
Head of Challenge, Full-Throttle Driver, Revenue-Obsessed, Loving To Make IT Better
Last position:
Interim CSO at Wörner Medical
- ROI in the last assignment: 13.31-fold
- Medical technology / medical centers / labs / practices
- Group 15,000, Unit 258 employees
- Group €22 bn, Unit €90 million in revenue
- Post-merger revenue slump and underperforming sites
- Turnaround of the sales organization
- Restructuring of sales, marketing, key account management, customer service, complete replacement of the sales team
- Increased efficiency in field sales by 67%
- Reduced prescription billing errors by 80%
- Reduced non-paying customers from 89 to 39
- Increased telemarketing performance from 90.50% to 96.20%
- Integration of 8 subsidiaries
- Acquired 252 new customers
- Recovered 7 lost key accounts
- Generated additional new revenue of €8.2 million
- Stabilization of the organization at the employee level
Domenico Dʼapuzzo
Senior Compliance & Anti-Financial-Crime Expert
Last position:
Compliance Officer at Deutsche Börse AG
- Design and implement financial crime prevention processes and control documentation frameworks for multi-entity organizations
- Conduct annual compliance risk assessments and remediation oversight for regulatory adherence
- Ensure alignment with applicable banking regulations and international compliance directives; identify and document emerging regulatory risks
- Develop and deliver compliance awareness training programs on fraud prevention and financial crime threat mitigation
- Lead cross-functional remediation initiatives to strengthen organizational compliance infrastructure and controls
Aleksandr Selezniov
Investment Compliance Consultant
Last position:
Investment Compliance Consultant at Averroes Concept Lounge GmbH
Implementation of guideline monitoring systems, migration projects, analysis and implementation of contractual and regulatory investment guidelines.
Migrate funds from MIG21 to SimCorp Dimension, designing, testing, and implementing templates in FundDesigner and SimCorp.
Utilize the AI-driven Dakota program in FundDesigner to analyze documents and implement client-specific changes.
Actively collaborate with cross-functional, international teams to support ongoing projects and initiatives.
Design, test, and refine AI prompts based on client requirements to optimize accuracy and consistency of regulatory and investment guideline outputs.
Analyze client-provided prompts and source documents, translating complex requirements into effective prompt structures and reusable templates.
Work with multiple large language models hosted on AWS, evaluating model behavior and output quality for compliance-related use cases.
Coordinate with international teams to support cross-border investment compliance initiatives.
Emmanuel Ezeokala
Privacy Compliance Associate (Volunteer)
Last position:
Privacy Compliance Associate (Volunteer) at Word Alive Ministries (Stone Church)
- Maintain internal GDPR documentation and manage data access controls within digital systems.
- Train users on privacy protocols, recordkeeping, and document management standards.
Hans Malarski
Technical Writer / CE Coordinator / Consultant for Multilingual Information Management
Last position:
Technical Writer / CE Coordinator / Consultant for Multilingual Information Management at Self-employed
- Creating and translating technical documentation and software with regard to regulatory requirements
- Organizing the language components of board and supervisory board meetings
- Leading and coordinating multilingual documentation and translation projects externally
- Achieving annual cost savings
- Advising SMEs and global players on optimizing the workflows of multilingual documentation creation
- Developing efficient terminology and translation management
Lucy Rohda
ESG & MaRisk Compliance Officer
Last position:
ESG & MaRisk Compliance Officer at Lesora GmbH
- Strengthen MaRisk compliance by enhancing risk management, internal controls, and regulatory processes.
- Optimize compliance workflows and perform key control activities to ensure regulatory alignment.
- Advise management and business units on supervisory requirements and compliance obligations.
- Collaborate closely with internal control functions, risk management, and other governance units to improve cross-functional compliance standards.
- Accompany strategic projects from a compliance perspective.
- Develop ESG measures and contribute to establishing ESG risk management.
- Serve as the ESG point of contact and co-author the company’s first ESG report.
- Deliver internal trainings on compliance and sustainability topics.
Said Bedreddin Kalay
Compliance Specialist
Last position:
Compliance Specialist at Safran Passenger Innovations
- Played a key role in developing and implementing internal compliance processes aligned with corporate and regulatory standards.
- Supported the implementation of the Compliance Management System (CMS) and internal policies, ensuring adherence to global compliance frameworks.
- Conducted export classifications under the Harmonized Tariff System (HTS), including Dual-Use and U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ensuring accurate and compliant trade documentation.
- Acted as customs coordinator, overseeing export compliance and customs processes to maintain smooth and legally compliant international transactions.
- Assisted with GDPR-related data protection requirements, internal risk assessments, and compliance reporting obligations.
- Contributed to internal audits, regulatory reporting, and employee training, promoting a strong compliance culture across the organization.
- Led a project to enable compliant remote working abroad, enhancing operational flexibility while reducing compliance risks.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams (legal, operations, IT, HR) to ensure alignment with corporate governance and regulatory requirements.
Sebastian Papke
Freelance Technical Writer and CE Coordinator
Last position:
Freelance Technical Writer and CE Coordinator at Freelance
- Full cycle documentation creation, maintenance and submission: from kickoff, content research, document creation, translation management to final delivery
- Conduct project-related research on documentation-relevant standards, guidelines and regulations to ensure legal security and valid results
- Created documents such as operating, assembly, software manuals as well as online help and infographics
- Developed risk assessments based on Annex I Machinery Directive and compiled requirements of relevant norms, directives and laws
- Prepared all necessary CE documents: risk assessment; nameplate; declaration of conformity
- Collaborated closely with all involved departments to ensure CE compliance process
Stefan Bolle
Owner
Last position:
Owner at Bolle.Advisory
- Specialized consulting and project management for SAP S/4HANA migration
- Special audits of credit business at cooperative banks (§ 44 KWG)
- Process consulting for accounting at cooperative banks
- Annual financial statement audits for asset management and leasing companies
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Compliance Managers statistics
Typical experience
23 years
Average project duration
4.2 years
Certifications per freelancer
5
Top business areas
Legal, Operations, Project Management
Top industries
Professional Services, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing
Most common languages
English, German, Spanish
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
50%
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Frequently Asked Questions
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A Compliance Manager reviews rules, controls, and processes, then turns gaps into clear actions. On a project, that can include policy work, control testing, audit preparation, training support, and follow-up on remediation. The goal is to reduce risk without slowing the business more than necessary.
The strongest compliance managers combine regulatory understanding with solid project discipline. They need to write clear procedures, assess risk, work with evidence, and handle sensitive stakeholder conversations. In practice, they must also be able to keep work moving across legal, risk, operations, and management teams.
Often the titles overlap, but the scope can differ. A compliance officer may focus more on monitoring and reporting, while a compliance manager usually owns broader coordination, controls, and remediation work. Many companies also search for a compliance lead or regulatory compliance manager when they want the same kind of support.
A freelancer is a strong fit when the need is temporary, urgent, or tied to a specific deliverable. That includes audit clean-up, policy redesign, a new market launch, or interim cover during a vacancy. It is also a good choice when the company needs specialist experience without adding headcount.
Typical deliverables are policy packs, risk logs, control matrices, audit responses, training materials, and remediation trackers. A good Compliance Manager also leaves decision records and a clear owner list so the work can continue after the project ends. The best output is practical, not just formal.
Yes, many compliance projects can be handled remotely if access, documents, and stakeholders are well organized. For Germany-based teams, hybrid work is often useful when workshops, interviews, or on-site reviews are needed. Language expectations should be agreed early, especially if policies or training need to be in German.
Look for evidence that they have handled real controls, real audits, and real business pressure. A strong compliance officer or manager can explain how they found a gap, what they changed, and how they made the fix stick. You should also check how clearly they document work and how they work with other functions.
Regulated and process-heavy environments need it most, including financial services, insurance, software, healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing. In Germany, companies often look for support where local governance, vendor oversight, or documented controls are important. A freelancer is especially useful when the work crosses several teams or sites.
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