A Compliance Program, from first principles.

Six structural outcomes for new programs.

1. How to draft the compliance-program charter that the CFO will sign. The four mandates, the scope boundaries, the budget envelope, and the executive-sponsorship structure that survives the first reorganisation.
2. The operating model: where compliance lives in the organisation. Three structural patterns — embedded in IT, embedded in finance, and standalone — with the trade-offs we have observed across one hundred and twenty implementations.
3. The RACI for a 17-process compliance function. Who is responsible for each measurement, classification, reconciliation, reporting, and audit-response activity, and how decision rights are arbitrated when two functions disagree.
4. Technology selection: build, buy, or hybrid. The SAM-tooling market, the SAP-native instruments, and the four-criterion vendor scorecard most procurement teams skip.
5. The annual cadence: from USMM to renewal in twelve months. The month-by-month operating calendar that aligns measurement, cleanup, optimisation, and contract milestones.
6. The reporting stack that earns the program continued funding. The five-page executive review, the leading-indicator dashboard, and the year-end value-realisation report.

Seven chapters. Thirty-nine pages.

Four audiences. One reference.