Microsoft Director Compliance - Worldwide Sales Solutions WSS 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

346742196

mission first, people always.

Each day will be different and will require agility, teamwork, and a commitment to operate at the highest levels of integrity, inclusivity, trust, and ourlearn-it-allculture. You will need to be self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity, and excellent at communications in a fast-paced environment while driving high quality results.

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Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 8+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of strategic program and/or project management experience in a technology organization, working across global stakeholders, multiple functions, and complex interdependencies.
• 8+ years of compliance-related experience in one or more of the following areas: security, privacy, anti-corruption (FCPA), trade, accessibility, supplier compliance.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 12+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND 15+ years experience in program management, process management, or process improvement
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills and experience with solid finance/business acumen.
• Ability to accurately assess and synthesize qualitative and quantitative information (e.g., Return on Investment, Key Performance Indicators, business performance-to-value drivers, core data analytics, etc.), draw conclusions, present solutions to management and drive overall execution across a complex program.
• Adept at traversing business, people, and P&L (profits & loss) priorities with proven success in leading and executing across multiple, concurrent workstreams/initiatives.
• Track record in building partnerships and influencing stakeholder groups, as well as experience with internal advocacy in a large, dynamic and highly matrixed environment.
• Work experience from business management, program/project management, finance, management consulting and/or change management preferred.

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In this role, you will deliver strategic and operational leadership and execution across the following key areas:

• Compliance planning and operational leadership:
  • You will deliver comprehensive program leadership across WSS’ core compliance function and aligned workstreams. Working in close partnership with WSS/MCAPS teams and key business partners, you will both lead across and deeply collaborate with a WSS Core + extended compliance v-team, providing business leadership across a diverse range of strategic compliance focus areas including Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI), Responsible AI, privacy, anti-corruption/Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), trade, Executive Orders/regulatory mandates, and new/evolving strategic initiatives as prioritized. You will lead cross-org coordination and execution of core compliance rhythms, requirements/actions, reporting/Exec status updates, etc. for prioritized compliance workstreams/workloads- on time and with quality.
  • You will partner with the WSS Exec Office/Business Mgmt team(s) to ensure coordination and on-time execution of internal org compliance mandates (e.g. Executive Orders, required compliance trainings, supplier compliance requirements/vetting, internal tool vetting, etc.)
  • In addition to leading the holistic WSS compliance portfolio, you will also serve as the WSS compliance lead on critical priority risk domains, requiring a depth of knowledge/SME on the given compliance landscape (requirements, risk parameters, etc.), a highly effective risk-mitigation/solution-orientation, and demonstrated ability to effectively mobilize key internal teams on all phases of scoping to execution. You will lead, implement and/or manage strategic WSS compliance initiatives (as prioritized) to drive compliance/operational excellence that empowers our organization at scale. Core responsibilities include:
    • Identifying key opportunities for risk mitigation/business improvement through a combination of analytics, qualitative insights, and business acumen
    • Performing landscape research and analysis (e.g., cross-IPS, cross-MCAPS, cross-MSFT) to drive scoping and solution recommendations for key program/operational priorities
    • Defining project/program requirements and creating project plan(s), timelines, communication rhythms/deliverables, status/risk management protocols and success measures/KPIs to ensure teams align and execute on a clear plan of record
    • You will collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. compliance leads/champs) to 1) build consensus across key program/initiative goals and strategies and 2) ensure programmatic and/or business processes are rigorous, executed on-time/on-plan- with operational excellence
    • AI leadership and operational transformation to evolve core compliance/business operational areas: lead net-new WSS projects or AI-focused initiatives (as prioritized) to drive transformative, operational impact and excellence that empowers our sales organization at scale.
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