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CEE Compliance Manager - Czech Republic

Global Sales Marketing and Operations (GSMO) Finance is driving shareholder value in 60 subsidiaries and carries the local accountability for the financials as well as statutory and compliance matters across all segments and products.

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• Land the company vision around the transformation of our business, consumption and customer orientation in the subsidiaries and externally.
• Drive strategic resource allocation and investments through local insights, ensuring optimal returns aligned with our worldwide strategy. Key focus is on New Business with an industry and workload perspective.
• Build trust to lay the foundation of long-term growth from a customer and shareholder point of view in a compliant way.
• Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of top performing teams while providing diverse career opportunities.

   

Microsoft Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is a Multi-Subsidiary Area (MSA) and one of 14 regions in GSMO Finance.

The Area consists of eight subsidiaries, one of which is Microsoft Czech Republic & Slovakia.

Microsoft Finance is a truly global finance team and you will be part of the WW community of Compliance Managers to make each other great and build on each other.

The Compliance Manager is responsible for establishing a culture of compliance in the subsidiary by articulating the importance of compliance to senior management and driving the right tone at the top. The successful candidate builds strong support for the compliance agenda by the leadership and the business by establishing a structure and compliance checks and coaching them on key compliance risks and processes to drive compliance deep into the organization.

You have a growth mindset, act as an entrepreneur that drives business impact, and continuously learn and innovate. You have a capability to actively contribute and build strong collaboration within diverse and virtual teams. You are action oriented and able to build and deliver strong results through others beyond the team as well. You are experienced in risk prioritization and management and passionate about doing business in a compliant way. You are nimble in understanding new local requirements and business models and the new compliance risks associated with these. Microsoft values and ethical behavior are a corner stone in our culture.

Job's Details

Responsibilities

• Establish compliance as a foundational & cultural pillar of doing business in your organization.
• Lead by example, ensure strict adherence to policies, supported by strong tone at the top and efficient compliance governance process with regular monitoring.
• Provide compliance leadership, consulting services, and monitoring in support of management’s business objectives and their responsibility to mitigate risk.
• Implement a structure of Business & Finance Compliance champs in the sub; train them on driving good tone and investigating red flags and dashboard indicators.
• Use the Compliance Advisory Board meetings to push compliance with the Country Manager, Legal and HR, and orchestrate the remediation of compliance issues.
• Conduct deep data analytics and produce actionable insights to focus the compliance efforts on the highest risk areas, leveraging the available global standard reports.
• In particular, work closely with the High-Risk Deals Desk to ensure all risky deals are subject to a pre-closure compliance review, all red flags appropriately resolved or escalated, and key learnings communicated back to Finance and business stakeholders.
• Identify and address geo-specific risks not covered in the global Compliance framework
• Continuous feedback loop with EY (controls testing) and Corp C&C and also Accenture (e.g. Buy Center) to improve the risk elimination achieved by the 3rd party work.
• Monitor and direct the landing of Corp-led strategic projects by the business, validating what is agreed is being executed and the right segregation of duties is in place
• Leverage Corp teams to escalate and address compliance risks in non-GSMO entities in your geo
• Review for opportunities to simplify, automate, or eliminate activities that are now covered by newer processes.

   

Key Indicators Of Success

• Number of issues proactively identified (rather than after the fact) and remediated
• Full process remediation -> no recurring Internal Audit issues + improved C&C dashboard results
• Quality and timeliness of landing Corp projects

   

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of active experience in a role that includes risk management
• Experience in Governance, Compliance & Risk Management as well as Statutory, Accounting, Controlling, Tax is preferred
• Fluent in English
• BA/BS or MBA degree in Finance, Economics, CPA/CA/CIA/CFE preferred