Successful business relationships are built on trust and shared values – this is an opportunity to lead a team that programmatically helps Microsoft suppliers understand our values and data protection expectations. We hold suppliers to Privacy, Security and Responsible AI standards that consider cybersecurity risk, regulatory obligations, data subject rights to name a few -- contributing to our company reputation, “Microsoft runs on Trust’.

The Microsoft Supplier Security and Privacy Assurance (SSPA) program is a Corporate control that sets requirements for our global suppliers and drives compliance to these standards. We are looking for a Group Compliance Manager to lead a team paying equal attention to enabling an innovative operation and securing high quality compliance due diligence records to provide assurance to the company and various auditors!

This role requires a skilled executive communicator who can effectively engage with senior supplier leaders and peers across procurement and other business functions. You are adept at conveying Privacy, Security, and Responsible AI policy positions with confidence and can reframe your arguments on the fly to ensure understanding and compliance. You handle difficult conversations with ease and can model and coach these communication skills to further develop your team. Your agility allows you to adapt quickly to changing circumstances and reframe positions for different target audiences.

You will encounter an interesting, diverse and an ever-evolving breadth of supplier use case scenarios and will enable the team to enhance peer review practices that arrive at well-balanced outcomes that match supplier scenarios.

It’s an exciting time at Microsoft – you will lead the team encouraging them to think big, experiment, pilot, and re-iterate and embed into business processes. You will focus on systems thinking, building and integrating processes to drive optimization across procurement and the company. Your leadership will support our suppliers in becoming regulation-ready while ensuring our secure foundations and delivering high-quality outcomes.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Uphold program integrity and standards as the Group Compliance Manager, ensuring that privacy and security principles are applied across a multitude of scenarios demonstrating sound judgement.

• Lead the team to deliver on the Corporate control compliance remit, balancing business expediency with expected compliance outcomes.

• Ensure our operating standards maintain ongoing green audit reports from Internal Audit, regulatory inquiries and customer audits.

• Examine operating guardrails, always considering effectiveness and adjusting as needed.

• Understand the eco-system of stakeholders and seek out opportunities to define and integrate shared goals across teams.

• Analyze team deliverables that convert policy or a general directive into reasonable supplier standards to ensure requirements can be audited while keeping operational impacts to a minimum.

• Drive incremental improvements that increase customer satisfaction via the customer support service without compromising the program remit.

• Proactively build relationships across Procurement to develop shared accountability that together raises supplier compliance standards.

• Participate and provide your thought leadership in efforts to streamline the end-to-end buying process, adding your compliance control mindset to discussions.

• Consider how you continually ‘make space’ through operational excellence to assimilate the growing demands on your team to attain a cost neutral position to the extent possible.

• Demonstrates Microsoft values every day – respect, integrity and accountability.

• Standing Firm on Tough Decisions: The ability to make and uphold difficult decisions that are in the best interest of the organization, even in the face of opposition.

• Making Compelling Business Cases: The skill to create persuasive and well-reasoned business cases that push for necessary transformations and improvements.

• Advocacy for Transformation: The capability to advocate for and drive transformational changes across procurement, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

• Balancing Pace and Scale: The agility to implement changes that allow the business to continue operating efficiently and effectively at scale.

Other

Embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in finance or related field AND 6+ years experience in finance or financial compliance

• OR equivalent experience.

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.

• Security Professional (CISSP) certification OR an IAPP Privacy

• Professional certification OR AICPA qualified auditor is required.

• Experience in privacy and/or security related roles.

Compliance IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $115,000 - $200,300 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $146,200 - $219,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 9, 2024

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to askstaff@microsoft.com .

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) .