Compliance Programs & Policy Lead

Overview

Microsoft Ireland Payment Services Limited (MIPSL) is being established as an Irish payment institution, subject to authorisation and regulation by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI).

You will report to the Head of Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering and form part of MIPSL's independent second-line Compliance function, working closely with teams across MIPSL and Microsoft, including Risk, Legal, Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime, Operations, Product and Engineering.

Responsibilities

Go-Live Readiness & Operationalisation: Play a hands-on role in completing, testing and operationalising MIPSL’s Compliance programmes ahead of go-live, ensuring key policies, training, issue-management and governance arrangements are embedded and effective.

Policy Governance & Lifecycle: Build and manage MIPSL’s Compliance policy framework and lifecycle, including development, approval, review, exceptions, breaches and attestations.

Policies, Procedures & Evidence: Maintain effective governance over Compliance policies and procedures, ensuring appropriate ownership, records, approvals and supporting evidence.

Issues & Remediation Management: Design, operationalise and lead the Compliance Issues & Remediation framework, ensuring issues are appropriately assessed, prioritised, tracked, escalated and sustainably remediated.

Compliance Training: Build and deliver MIPSL’s risk-based Compliance Training Programme, ensuring training is targeted, relevant and aligned to regulatory requirements and emerging risks.

Compliance Communications & Culture: Develop effective Compliance communications and awareness initiatives, partnering across the business to support a strong and sustainable compliance culture.

Programme Governance & Delivery: Coordinate key policy, training and issue-management governance cycles, tracking material Compliance actions, commitments and deliverables through to closure.

Programme Effectiveness & Insight: Assess programme effectiveness, identify emerging themes and systemic issues, and translate these into actionable improvements across the Compliance framework.

Management Information & Reporting: Develop clear Compliance programme MI and senior-level reporting, providing insight into programme effectiveness, issues, remediation and key priorities.

Automation & Continuous Improvement: Lead opportunities to automate, simplify and scale Compliance policy, training, issue-management and reporting processes.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Significant Compliance or regulatory risk experience within a regulated financial services environment.
• Strong knowledge of Irish and EU financial services regulation and its application within Compliance programmes.
• Experience managing Compliance policies, frameworks and policy-governance processes.
• Experience managing Compliance issues, remediation and action tracking, including root-cause analysis and escalation.
• Experience developing and delivering risk-based Compliance training and awareness programmes.
• Strong programme-management capability, with experience coordinating multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Experience developing Compliance MI and reporting for senior management or governance committees.
• Excellent written, organisational and stakeholder-management skills.
• Degree, relevant professional qualification or equivalent professional experience.

Additional/Preferred Qualifications

• ACOI/LCOI, ICA or equivalent Compliance qualification.
• Experience in payments, e-money, fintech or banking.
• Experience building or significantly enhancing Compliance programmes.
• Experience managing policy governance and end-to-end policy lifecycle.
• Experience with root-cause analysis, issue management and remediation governance.
• Experience developing risk-based regulatory and Compliance training.
• Experience using data, technology or automation to improve Compliance programme delivery.
• Experience in a complex multinational or matrixed organisation.
• This role may be designated as a Controlled Function under the Central Bank of Ireland Fitness and Probity Regime. Where applicable, appointment will be subject to the relevant Fitness and Probity requirements.
• Finance Compliance IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Ireland is € 80,000.00 - € 136,400.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/ireland-corporate-pay.html

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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