Compliance specialist resume examples from 2025
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How to write a compliance specialist resume
Craft a resume summary statement
A well-written resume summary is basically an elevator pitch. You are summing up your skills and experience in a few sentences to wow recruiters, hiring managers, and decision makers into giving you an interview. Here are some tips to putting your best foot first with your resume summary:
Step 1: Start with your professional title, or the one you aspire to.
Step 2: Detail your years of experience in compliance specialist-related roles and your industry experience.
Step 3: What are your biggest professional wins? Here is your opportunity to highlight your strongest accomplishments by placing them at the start of your resume.
Step 4: Don't forget, your goal is to summarize your experience. Keep it short and sweet, so it's easy for recruiters to quickly understand why you're a great hire.
These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some compliance specialist interviews.Please upload your resume so Zippia’s job hunt AI can draft a summary statement for you.
List the right project manager skills
Many resumes are filtered out by hiring software before a human eye ever sees them. A robust Skills section can let recruiters (and bots) know you have the skills to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section:
- You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
- Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
- Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a compliance specialist resume:
- Patients
- Regulatory Compliance
- Strong Analytical
- FDA
- Customer Service
- PowerPoint
- Risk Assessments
- Compliance Program
- Corrective Action
- Internal Audit
- Compliance Issues
- CMS
- Ethics
- Internal Controls
- Excellent Organizational
- Training Materials
- Regulatory Agencies
- HR
- External Audits
- Medicaid
- Management System
- HIPAA
- Corporate Risk
- Compliance Policies
- Regulatory Risk
- Anti-Money Laundering
- Compliance Reviews
- Federal Laws
- Regulatory Changes
- Federal Regulations
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How to structure your work experience
A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.
- Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
- Put the job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
- Include only recent, relevant jobs. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.
How to write compliance specialist experience bullet points
Remember, your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. This is your chance to show why you're good at your job and what you accomplished.
Use the XYZ formula for your work experience bullet points. Here's how it works:
- Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
- Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
- Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.
This creates bullet points that read Achieved X, measured by Y, by doing Z.
Here are great bullet points from compliance specialist resumes:
Work history example #1
Investigator
Bank of America
- Worked ATM Debit card portfolio including training and establishing procedures.
- Documented AML review results and prepared SARs in accordance with US laws, the BSA and the USA PATRIOT Act.
- Compiled data, and maintained necessary records and files to assure efficient and consistent reporting of investigations.
- Developed procedures for and reviewed incoming referrals from internal departments and subpoenas to determine if a full investigation was warranted.
- Substantiated non-SAR decisions with documentation.
Work history example #2
Analyst
IBM
- Established procedures for unit and integration testing and executed unit testing for newly developed and existing roles.
- Cloned data structures, workflow, interfaces, and conversion of data elements to new client SAP instance.
- Developed comprehensive SCM package written in Perl scripts on top of SCM that provided a transparent check-in/check-out display mechanism.
- Partnered with HR during reorganizations/acquisitions/divestitures to identify impact in PeopleSoft and implement system changes.
- Provided a wide array of services ranging from resetting passwords to trouble-shooting desktop applications and maintaining database.
Work history example #3
Compliance Specialist
Alliance Residential
- Developed and implemented standard operating procedure for the compliance specialists that ensured FDA compliance and regulations are tracked and followed.
- Executed revisions and edits of content to standard operating procedures in collaboration with procedure owners from 15 departments within organization.
- Developed marketing brochures and PowerPoint slides for public release to increase program awareness.
- Passed best practices / information along to fellow co-workers as we work through issues surrounding ACA resolving them.
- Examined internal emails and company procedures for compliance with underwriting guidelines in initiating residential mortgage loans.
Work history example #4
Compliance Specialist
Univ of Virginia Med Cent
- Supported the Chief Compliance and Privacy Official in the implementation of the overall corporate and research compliance program.
- Uncovered collected in excess of 10K in unpaid Medicaid claims in first 6 months.
- Assisted with responses to CMS or other regulatory/accreditation site visits, audits, surveys, etc.
- Mentored and trained technical and clinical staff on procedures to monitor compliance with contractual obligations.
- Reviewed Medicare and Medicaid reports to ensure hospital claims billed within guidelines of 24- and 72-hour rules.
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Add an education section to your resume
- The highest degree you have achieved.
- TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
- TField of study
- TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities
Here are some examples of good education entries from compliance specialist resumes:
Bachelor's Degree in accounting
Baruch College of the City University of New York, New York, NY
2006 - 2009
Highlight your compliance specialist certifications on your resume
If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification section.
To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your compliance specialist resume:
- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)
- Certified Specialist of Occupancy (CSO-PH)
- Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Healthcare Research Compliance Certification (CHRC)
- Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS)
- Certified Quality Auditor (CQA)
- International Accredited Business Accountant (IABA)
- OSHA Safety Certificate
- Certified Coding Specialist (CCS)