The Microsoft (MS) Mexico Compliance Manager is part of the Americas Enterprise Compliance Finance team. The MS Mexico Compliance Manager reports to the Americas Enterprise Compliance Lead and partners closely with the Microsoft Mexico Country Manager, CFO and the Enterprise Commercial and Public Sector teams to help them achieve their goals while ensuring adherence to company policies and risk mitigation.
The main responsibilities of the role include providing overall finance compliance support, advising on sales deal execution, proactively managing risk, and establishing a stronger culture of compliance.
The MS Mexico Compliance Manager is accountable for ensuring strict adherence to company policies, implementation of the company´s compliance framework, timely execution of compliance rhythms and processes, and influencing leadership and business compliance champs to foster a strong culture of trust across the organization.
**Responsibilities**:
Compliance Stakeholder Engagement
- Creates and leads stakeholder engagement (e.g., compliance committees, Sales Leaders) by formalizing governance on stakeholder engagement (i.e. cross-organizational compliance committees). Supports the adoption of business-led compliance rhythm and influences the culture and tone resulting in full adoption of the business-led compliance rhythm. Coaches and holds people accountable for behaving compliantly and ethically and implements global compliance initiatives.
- Engages proactively with compliance stakeholders (e.g., compliance committee) to ensure required and participant-recommended topics are discussed. Facilitates and monitors compliance execution, including getting the right people to focus on at-issue topics (e.g., Sales Deal Execution (SDE) related risks, services, Partner compliance), and ensures appropriate escalation and oversight. Supports the adoption of a business-led compliance rhythm, coaches others and holds them accountable to compliance and ethical standards, leads discussions to address existing risks, and identifies and acts against emerging risks (e.g., non-ethical sales, corruption).
Monitoring & Auditing
- Identifies and reviews compliance risks and issues both at the end customer and in the partner ecosystem (e.g., Sales Deal Execution, Procurement, Corruption) and implements appropriate controls. Surfaces issues to Subject Matter Experts (SME), peers, management, and corporate teams to drive program/process improvements and identify novel solutions to compliance issues across external stakeholder groups (e.g., end customer, Partner ecosystem).
- Defines the framework (e.g., controls), scope, and definition of the testing and makes adjustments and updates in coordination with the central team. Reviews and leverages quarterly monitoring test (e.g., Compliance Monitoring Insights (CMI)) results and dashboard metrics to ensure accuracy and team accountability. Reviews and ensures business or functional team accountability for remediation plan and execution, consults on remediation or escalates issues, as necessary, and coordinates between CMI, local, and corporate stakeholders.
- Facilitates and lands the process (e.g., high-risk deal desk (HRDD), partner accountability management (PAM), Subsidiary Controls Assessment (SCA)). Participates in annual risk assessments and ensures relevant stakeholders (e.g., local management, Partners) are taking appropriate actions and controls are functioning appropriately. Defines monitoring programs, provides feedback to make the process better, and sets timeliness of implementation of the corporate program. Engages in and shares best practices within team and across geographies.
Education
- Leverages the full spectrum of available training. Trains business stakeholders to ensure robust business compliance community and supports stakeholders to deliver internal and external compliance training to their respective organizations. Facilitates the landing of compliance policies and processes.
- Facilitates policies and processes by reviewing and developing team development of Role Based Compliance (RBC) trainings, leveraging existing cross-functional teams to partner with required departments such as Proactive Risks Team (PRT in Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA)) or others, and managing the delivery of trainings that ensure message consistency and risk prioritization.
Other
- Embody our culture and values
**Qualifications**:
Required Qualification:
- Bachelor's Degree in finance or related field AND 6+ years experience in finance or financial compliance
- OR equivalent experience.
- Business level fluency to read, write and speak English and Spanish.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in finance or related field AND 12+ years experience in finance or financial compliance
- OR Master's Degree in finance or related field AND 8+ years experience in finance or financial compliance
- OR equivalent experience