Senior ISO Compliance Auditor

THE ROLE 
As a Senior ISO Compliance Auditor, you will lead enterprise-wide compliance and certification initiatives with primary accountability for ISO audit readiness, control effectiveness, and sustained certification success. This role serves as a key position in ensuring Xylem’s continued alignment with applicable regulatory, attestation, and certification frameworks, with particular emphasis on ISO standards and requirements. 

In this capacity, you will function as a central coordinator across Xylem, partnering closely with control owners, technical teams, external auditors, certification bodies, and customers to maintain a strong compliance posture, mitigate risk, and support successful audit and certification outcomes. This position carries a strong ISO auditor-facing and audit management focus, requiring disciplined oversight of audit preparation, evidence quality, control maturity, and remediation execution. 

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Lead and manage ISO compliance and certification programs, with strong ownership of ISO audit readiness, certification maintenance, surveillance activities, and continuous control effectiveness. 

• Drive the full audit lifecycle, including planning, readiness assessments, internal audit coordination, external audit support, evidence validation, nonconformity management, and remediation tracking. 

• Coordinate and facilitate internal and external audits, serving as a primary point of contact for ISO auditors, certification bodies, and external assessors, while managing timelines, deliverables, and audit expectations. 

• Partner with control owners to ensure controls are appropriately designed, documented, implemented, and operating effectively across in-scope systems, services, and business processes. 

• Oversee the collection, review, validation, and organization of audit evidence to satisfy ISO certification requirements, attestation standards, and customer assurance commitments. 

• Identify control gaps, risks, audit findings, and nonconformities, and drive corrective and preventive actions through to closure with accountable stakeholders. 

• Track and report on compliance performance metrics, including audit status, remediation progress, control effectiveness, certification health, and readiness for upcoming ISO assessments. 

• Maintain governance over corrective actions, exceptions, findings, and deficiencies, ensuring timely resolution and alignment with certification and compliance obligations. 

• Collaborate cross-functionally to proactively mitigate compliance risks and resolve issues that could affect certification standing, audit outcomes, or customer trust. 

• Support ongoing compliance activities, including ISO surveillance audits, recertification efforts, internal audit preparedness, and overall program maturity advancement. 

• Enhance and streamline compliance processes, tooling, and evidence management workflows in partnership with automation and operational teams.