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Posted date: Jul 31, 2024
Category: Governance, Risk, & Compliance
Location: Reston, Virginia
Estimated salary: $147,550
Range: $94,600 - $200,500
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
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.You can help us achieve our mission. Joining the Microsoft Federal Operations team will bring you close to the customer and a leading edge go-to-market team. The team has a dynamic, mission-driven culture, with a high degree of passion to meet the needs of United States (US) Government customers with a range of solutions. We offer unique opportunities to work across global projects and teams in an environment that appreciates diversity, focuses on talent development, and recognizes and rewards great work. We make doing business with Microsoft easy.
Microsoft Federal Operations is seeking an experienced and passionate professional with deep experience in risk management, compliance, and regulatory controls, especially for US government requirements. The Risk and Compliance Manager - Federal Operations role is a critical role as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert in deal level risk management and plays a key role in partnering with pre-sales field and operations teams to assess deal risk and to drive adherence to controls. The focus of this role is specifically related to compliance and risk monitoring in the transaction processing area of the business, and includes Business Continuity Management, privacy/data management , trade & anti-corruption, and risk management. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working within a highly matrixed multinational organization, exhibit outstanding organizational, communication, judgement, and negotiation skills, and have a customer and compliance focus.
Escalation point to de-risk standard and complex deals in collaboration with pre-sales and operations teams to ensure that they can be compliantly and operationally executed with proper financial and regulatory controls in place. Proactively engage in sales deal execution by providing consultation on compliance risks to support business teams as they land deals in a compliant manner.Embrace a “compliance by design” mindset; proactively identify systemic gaps that should be integrated into program design and elevate them to the appropriate owners. Prevent local/one-off solutioning whenever possible.Partner with finance teams to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and regulatory continuous monitoring controls are adhered to, driving correction of error for all compliance findings discovered through audits/continuous monitoring. Review and signoff of automated and manual processes and related controls and support remediation as needed.Understand and apply financial and regulatory controls that drive compliance and Government security requirements. Develop proactive monitoring and controls measuring process rigor, compliance, and quality.Ensure policies and processes are enforced and communicated. Accountable for tracking, resolving, and determining root cause of escalations. Familiarity with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)/Defense Federal Acquisition Requlation Standard (DFARS) regulations Experience in internal controls and risk management (User Access, Privacy, Business Continuity) Proficient at designing business controls. Proficient at researching compliance requirementsResponsible for ensuring all Business Continuity Management plans are in place and tested in advance of each financial quarter-end.Ensure the business is audit-ready at all times and assist internal and external auditors in audit planning/execution. Ensure that compliance risks are tracked and maintained via risk register.Responsible for investigating all privacy incidents and recommendations to resolve key gaps.Ongoing support of operations anti-corruption controls, data management controls & testing, trade controls and testing, and fraud investigations with legal teams.Supports compliance-related assessments for product and service launches in partnership with Launch teams.Drive and facilitate a modern and agile training and communication program in order to foster business accountability, compliance awareness/risk acumen and improvement of compliance behavior.Actively participate in the global compliance community rhythm and processes, supporting the creation of a world class compliance framework. This includes support in design and execution of periodic monitoring programs and projects. Provide feedback to support the transformation to more data driven and preventive monitoring tools.Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Required/Minimum QualificationsBachelor's Degree in Science, Business, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in business, legal/regulatory, compliance, audit/consulting firmOR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security background screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements currently include, but may change, and are not limited to:
Microsoft Cloud Screen Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Screen background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter while in this role.
Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
Minimum 8 years professional experience in risk management, compliance, regulatory, or other governance and control-related roles preferredBachelor’s degree in a Business-related field (Operations, Accounting, Finance or IT) or related fieldExperience with FARS/DFARS, federal regulatory compliance, and SOX controlsExceptional attention to detail and ability to identify compliance, process, program gaps and work with stakeholders and process/solution owners across global teams to enable required change. United States Government (USG) contractor experience is a plusProficient at designing business controls, general computer controls, and general application controls. Proficient at researching compliance requirements.A proven track record of success in leading large-scale and global business process development, process engineering, project management, consulting, or related operational functions.Experience working in a fast-paced international environment, managing stakeholders, processes and collaborating with diverse teams across multiple time zones and cultures for shared outcomesProven impact and influence skills - ability to work broadly across disparate groups to gain agreement on direction, integrate disparate opinions into cohesive strategy/message and present/defend recommendations.Exceptional written, verbal and creative communication skills, including ability to translate insight into content, create slide or written presentations, create overall communication plans.Ability to deal with ambiguity and navigate uncertain situations to drive for clarity; work calmly and maintain good judgment in fast-paced, high-speed environment.Compliance IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,600 - $183,800 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 $122,000 - $200,500 per year.
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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 14, 2024
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