Contracts Compliance Analyst

About the position About the opportunity SWCA Environmental Consultants' Risk Management team is actively seeking to fill a Contracts Analyst position. This position is responsible for reviewing, processing, and maintaining contracts related to professional services and other legal documents while ensuring strict compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices. The role combines elements of contract analysis, risk management, and compliance monitoring, supporting the full contract lifecycle in collaboration with legal, risk, technology and operational teams. This position is a career growth opportunity to join a leading environmental consulting firm dedicated to delivering sound science and creative solutions to our clients. The role is a permanent, full-time, salaried position that offers a hybrid work environment reporting to our Phoenix, AZ office location. Highly qualified remote-based candidates will also be considered. Application deadline: Our team will begin reviewing applications immediately, and interviews will be scheduled with qualified candidates on a rolling basis. The application process will remain open until we have received a robust pool of qualified candidates. Once we have identified suitable individuals, we may close the application process without prior notice. We appreciate the time and effort invested by all applicants and will carefully consider each submission. What you will accomplish Contract Analyst reviews, drafts, and manages client agreements to protect SWCA's interests, ensuring compliance with policies and regulations, mitigating risks, and optimizing contractual terms in the company's best interests, working with internal operational clients and coordinating with contracts and legal department personnel. Key duties include analyzing clauses, liaising with internal stakeholders, and maintaining databases, requiring strong analytical and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Contract Review & Drafting: Analyze client contracts, amendments, and related documents (RFPs, RFQs) and propose redlines as needed to balance risk and expediency.
• Compliance & Risk Management: Ensure adherence to company policies, legal standards, and industry regulations; identify and mitigate risks.
• Collaboration: Work with operations, legal, finance, and other departments.
• Process Improvement : Make recommendations to leadership on process improvements, and play an important role in the implementation of such improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, legal studies, or a related field.
• Five (5) years of experience in contract compliance, legal support, or contract administration—ideally in a professional services environment.
• Familiarity with contract terminology, legal document structures, and risk/compliance principles.
• High attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (especially Word and Excel); experience with ticketing systems or contract management software is a plus.
• Ability to handle confidential information with integrity and discretion.
• Capable of working both independently and as part of a collaborative team.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience supporting legal or risk teams.
• Basic understanding of compliance and risk management in the context of professional services.
• Ability to interpret and communicate complex contract terms clearly to non-legal stakeholders.

Benefits

• We offer a supportive, team-oriented work environment and competitive wages and benefits, including an 100% employee stock ownership plan (retirement).
• At SWCA, we support our team members in developing their careers to make them leaders in their industry.
• Our Career Landscape initiative is a process and guide designed to help develop chart rewarding career paths for employees at SWCA.
• We encourage professional conference attendance, internal and external professional development and training programs, education reimbursement, a Science and Leadership Program, and bonuses for publications meeting certain criteria.
• All regular status employees are eligible to participate in SWCA medical, dental, vision, employee assistance, wellness, life and disability plans, and are eligible to participate in the SWCA 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust.
• SWCA continues to invest deeply in career development programs, delivering our award-winning Career Landscape support resources to accelerate the growth of our staff.

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