Senior Program Manager - Compliance Governance, FinOps & Supplier Risk

** Overview*
* ** Overview:
** The Financial Operations (Fin Ops) team delivers business value for over 300 legal entities through proactive, innovative, compliant, and cost-effective global solutions that exceed stakeholder expectations. As a global team with delivery centers and staff around the world, we combine outsourcing and in-house resources and embrace "AND"-balancing agility with stability and innovation with compliance-to deliver challenging, creative, and deeply impactful work.

Our functions include payroll, accounting, reporting & analysis, statutory compliance, supplier and partner payouts, procurement operations, employee expenses, outbound royalties, controls and compliance testing, and anti-corruption monitoring. Fin Ops continuously expands its scope and evolves its operating models through intelligent automation, process improvement, and co-innovation with strategic vendors, transforming legacy operations into AI-enabled services at scale.

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* Job Summary:

** As a senior compliance individual contributor, you will lead a portfolio of compliance, governance, and risk-management initiatives across Fin Ops Controls + Compliance. You will translate complex and emerging legal, regulatory, and self-regulatory obligations into scalable standards, operational frameworks, clear business impacts, accountable ownership, and tracked actions. Navigating ambiguity and competing priorities, you will lead multifaceted short- and long-term work streams;

partner across teams to align business innovation and cost-management goals with compliance requirements; strengthen operational, regulatory, control, audit, and supplier-risk readiness; resolve compliance barriers; and drive measurable risk outcomes. Through this work, you will contribute to Controls + Compliance operational excellence and team culture while helping the organization deliver on its commitments with accountability and integrity.

** What you'll bring:*
* + Extensive experience in governance, compliance strategy, and regulatory compliance within complex business environments.

+ Proven ability to lead compliance risk management initiatives, including gap analysis and policy development.

+ Excellent communication skills to effectively convey compliance information and influence senior leadership.

+ Expertise in analyzing regulatory trends and developing strategic responses to evolving legislation.

+ Demonstrated capability to manage multiple projects, prioritize tasks, and drive continuous improvement.

+ Commitment to upholding ethical standards and fostering a culture of integrity and accountability.

** Responsibilities*
* + Establish and manage an integrated risk-management framework across Fin Ops, including a centralized risk repository, consistent assessment and prioritization criteria, accountable ownership, escalation thresholds, and remediation tracking. Synthesize assessments, incidents, audit findings, control deficiencies, supplier-risk signals, and other compliance indicators into prioritized risk themes, mitigation plans, and leadership decisions.

+ Establish and manage a formal risk-acceptance and exception-management program that governs decisions to accept, defer, or otherwise manage compliance or operational risk outside established requirements. Define decision criteria, approval authority, documented rationale, compensating actions, expiration and renewal requirements, escalation thresholds, and closure standards. Maintain a centralized record of approved exceptions and accepted risks, monitor residual exposure and aging, and surface emerging concentrations for leadership review.

+ Lead regulatory readiness by identifying emerging obligations, assessing Fin Ops impacts, and translating requirements into scalable…