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Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

To achieve Microsoft’s mission, our Central Controls & Compliance (C&C) Team creates a culture of trust where teams are connected, share insights with business leadership, design effective controls & standards to prevent, detect & mitigate risks, win together with partners & customers. We endeavor to play a vital role in delivering on the promise of Microsoft’s culture and ultimately, make a difference in the world, through how and who we are.

Responsibilities

Compliance Office & Compliance Committees

• Influences committees by formalizing governance on cross-organizational compliance committees, uses existing relationships to coordinate between business stakeholders and groups, focuses on culture and ethics, and contributes to the global training program.

• Monitors and participates in compliance committee execution; reviews and suggests coverage of required topics, and elevates issues to Central Controls & Compliance (C&C) for visibility and support; develops agenda in collaboration with the management team; executes and drives compliance committee agenda all follow-up actions; identifies risk to fiscal year priorities and recommends mitigation solutions to the business.

Monitoring & Collaboration

• Reviews and leverages testing results and metrics to ensure accuracy and ensures team accountability; reviews and ensures business or functional team accountability for remediation plan and execution; consults on remediation or escalates issues as necessary; coordinates between the monitoring program owner and local and corporate stakeholders.

• Contributes to key organizational processes and ensures corporate-designed process or programs can be landed and executed in the local organization provides active input for the annual risk assessment; engages in cross team collaboration.

Risk Assessment and Mitigation

• Identifies and reviews Sales Deal Execution (SDE) risks and issues; leads and ensures the compliance monitoring plan is in place and surfaces issues to teams, management, and corporate teams; anticipates emerging risks in the marketplace industry; informs the leadership team of emerging risk and provides proposals to proactively address emerging risk.

• Reviews vetting and other related third-party compliance actions and ensures that controls are functioning appropriately; flags deals for review where risk indicators exist, this includes support of on-boarding and off-boarding activities.

Education

• Creates and participates in local training and supports a compliance community through community calls, team visits, and annual activities; leverages training opportunities from Controls & Compliance teams and applies training to common issues; supports world-wide groups to influence and contribute to compliance trainings by providing input to build common globally-appropriate training.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in Compliance / Audit with Business partnering

• AND experience in Controlling OR FP&A OR Stats OR Tax

• Experience in Multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment audit/assurance & other finance roles is recommended.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to simplify the complex & problem solving skills

• Articulation and crisp communication is important, with clarity of thought

• Ability to deal with ambiguity and ask probing questions to seek clarity

• MBA Degree/CA/CFA      

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .