Risk and Compliance Manager – Federal Operations

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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.

Responsibilities

• 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 requirements
• Responsible 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 framewor