Finance Compliance Lead - Saudi & Kuwait

Microsoft

Riyadh

SAR 200,000 - 300,000

Job description

The Microsoft (MS) Saudi & Kuwait Compliance Manager is part of the CEMA Compliance Finance team. He/She reports to the Middle East & Africa Compliance Lead and partners closely the Saudi and Kuwait Country Managers, CFO, CELA and other Leadership team members to help them achieve their goals while ensuring adherence to company policies and risk mitigation. The role also provides compliance support to the smaller countries in ME such as Oman and Bahrain.

The main responsibilities of the role include providing overall finance compliance support, advising on sales deal execution, proactively managing risk, and establishing a stronger culture of compliance via ensuring strict adherence to company policies, implementation of the company´s compliance framework, timely execution of compliance rhythms and processes, and influencing leadership and business compliance champs to foster a strong culture of trust across the organization.

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.

Responsibilities

You will facilitate and monitor compliance committee activities, ensuring all required topics are discussed and the appropriate people are focused on them. As a key member, you will support subsidiary compliance committees for proper execution of business-led compliance rhythm and influence the right compliance culture and tone.

You will also support the sub leadership teams to help them and their teams to navigate through the compliance resources available in the company, are able to speak up without fear, and employees are hold accountable for behaving compliantly and ethically.
You will define the framework for tests and make adjustments where necessary, and leverage quarterly test results and monitoring insights to ensure business and team accountability for remediation plans.
You will review Sales Deal Execution (SDE) risks and issues at both the end customer and partner ecosystem, identifying and flagging risks within business scenarios to recommend and implement appropriate controls if needed. You will seek support from Subject Matter Experts (SME), peers, management, and other corporate compliance teams (High Risk Deal Desk, Partner Compliance Functions (PAM/PERC), CELA etc. ) for guidance, support and escalation.
Leveraging the full spectrum of available training, you will help business stakeholders and local champs to have robust understanding of compliance policies of the company. You will help the landing of new compliance policies and processes locally and be the voice of the field to corp teams for potential process / policy improvements

Qualifications

Minimum required qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in finance / similar field or master's degree or MBA.

extensive experience in finance with sound experience also on financial compliance or equivalent experience.
Business level fluency to read, write and speak English

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

Business level fluency to read and speak in Arabic
CIA /CMA /CIA Certification

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