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
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.
Qualifications
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.
