Job Description

Microsoft Asia Pacific (APAC) is a high growth multi-country region consisting of 6 subsidiaries and the Southeast Asia New Markets multi-country sub region. Microsoft Asia Pacific has been a key enabler of the IT market growth through solid partners Microsoft Asia Pacific (APAC) is a high growth multi-country region consisting of 6 subsidiaries and the Southeast Asia New Markets multi-country sub region. Microsoft Asia Pacific has been a key enabler of the IT market growth through solid partnership with Governments, Enterprise and Small and Medium customers and partners in the region. The APAC MCAPS Finance team is responsible for partnering effectively with sales and marketing teams across the region, serving customer's needs and growing the cloud market share and strategic product workloads whilst operating at the highest level of integrity. The Compliance Finance Director is responsible for establishing a culture of compliance in the APAC region by articulating the importance of compliance to senior management and influencing the right tone at the top. The successful candidate facilitates the execution of a solid business-led compliance rhythm by establishing a structure and compliance checks and coaching stakeholders on key compliance risks and processes to drive compliance deep into the organization. He/she is also a strong people leaders who is committed to attract, develop and retain amazing talent. People Management Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modelling, coaching, and caring. Model - Live our culture Embody our values Practice our leadership principles. Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes Enable success across boundaries Help the team adapt and learn. Care - Attract and retain great people Know each individual's capabilities and aspirations Invest in the growth of others. Compliance Office & Compliance Committees Supports efforts to create an environment of compliance and ethics influences the culture and tone resulting in full adoption of a business led compliance rhythm coaches and holds people accountable for behaving compliantly and ethically implements global compliance initiatives. Facilitates and oversees the execution of compliance committee activities advises committee and provides oversight as needed oversees and supports teams focus toward at-issue topics (e.g., Sales Deal Execution (SDE), services, and partner compliance related risks) identifies opportunities for teams to increase knowledge of SDE-related risks and solutions. Monitoring & Collaboration Defines the framework (e.g., controls), scope, and definition of the testing and makes adjustments and updates in coordination with the monitoring program owner reviews and leverages quarterly testing results and metrics to ensure accuracy reviews and ensures business or functional team accountability for remediation plan and execution consults on remediation or escalates issues, as necessary takes a holistic view of trends across teams and geographies and works to ensure they are prioritized and addressed in a consistent manner. Oversees employee's efforts to drive key Corporate processes encourages employees to provide input for annual risk assessment, engages in cross team collaboration identifies and reports risk to senior and executive management. Risk Assessment and Mitigatio n Monitors business trends to isolate unusual patterns and examine data from a compliance perspective partners with other finance stakeholders to identify unusual circumstances, anomalies, and/or outliers. Oversees teams' efforts in the vetting process oversees teams' actions to ensure controls are functioning appropriately creates and implements plans to address patterns of risk or risk indicators ensures consistency in third party vetting and control definition within and across regions. Education Delivers, reviews, oversees, and participates in strategic training which includes community calls, team visits, and annual education activities tailors training to address local issues identifies opportunities for employees to increase compliance community efforts (e.g., evangelizing and training on policy) including the partner ecosystem. Reviews team endeavors to stabilize compliance of policies and processes oversees and encourages team development of Role Based Compliance (RBC) trainings, intra-business partnering, and management of these trainings provides feedback on training and policies. required/minimum qualifications bachelor's degree in finance or related field and 12+ years of financial compliance experience.