Director, Customs Compliance

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Redmond
Posted on: January 10, 2022

Job Description:

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That's what inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. At Microsoft, we also work to empower our employees, so they can achieve more. We believe we should each find meaning in our work and we ensure employees have the freedom and the reach to help make a difference in the world. Microsoft's Finance vision is focused on how business partnership leads to outcomes and how we drive impact. We do this through our core values - People, Prioritization, Partnership and Protect. Tax & Trade is responsible for Worldwide Tax Reporting, Compliance, and Planning, including the technology and process functions to support the coordination of the worldwide tax and trade functions. - The Trade Compliance team preserves, creates, and enables international market access for products, software, technology, and services by providing oversight, guidance and requirements associated with cross-border movements. The team owns and manages export control and customs processes, ensuring compliance with all applications laws and regulations and provides import/export subject matter expertise internally and externally. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the global customs team while identifying strategic planning opportunities, assessing risk, advocating in government and industry forums, and providing guidance to Microsoft business units and leadership on customs related matters. This is a senior position in the Tax and Trade organization and has responsibility for the customs operations in all the countries in which Microsoft operates. Among the Director's main responsibilities are ensuring with the global customs team that value (valuation), classification, origin and entry/clearance requirements are satisfied; any goods subject to import prohibition, restriction or licensing meet the applicable requirements; import activities comply with local customs laws and regulations; and business units can take advantage of trade agreements or any other duty reduction (savings) programs. The successful candidate will bring the following qualities: excellent technical acumen in trade compliance; strong commitment to cross-collaboration, and customer focus to enable business solutions. Strong people management and leadership skills. Ability to attract and develop diverse talent. -

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