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What You'll Do

This is an exciting opportunity for a Global Trade Compliance Lead Manager to join the Cisco Legal team, within the Trade Legal and Compliance team. This team is responsible for global trade regulations globally and across the business. We are looking for a curious, creative teammate. You will be responsible for:

• Leading a team of professionals responsible for transaction screening, including, but not limited to, restricted party screening, geolocation screening, end-use screening and export authorizations’ screening
• Designing, developing and executing export and sanctions screening compliance reports, policies, practices, and controls for a wide variety of sales, service and other transactions
• Handling inquiries and critical issues from Cisco personnel related to transaction screening status, results, clearances; and deciding when raising an issue is appropriate to senior management and/or trade counsel
• Ensure internal IT tools are running efficiently and optimally to verify compliant transactions are reviewed at the speed of business
• Monitoring KRIs, critical metrics, complex data analysis, screening analytics for regular and ad hoc reporting on the status of the screening program and overall health of the transaction screening systems, tools and processes
• Ensuring team develops and maintains comprehensive, current and high-quality program documentation that clearly outlines current controls and compliance standards
• Representing the team, developing and managing relationships with various internal functional groups to understand and implement business support against Cisco’s sanctions risk-assessment process, including participating in periodic reviews of screening procedures, reports, and systems to identify risk or deficiencies and ensure effectiveness of our compliance screening program
• Supporting ongoing design, testing, adoption and implementation of new and/or updated transaction screening tools, including technology software and systems, training programs and support developing associated processes
• Staying up to date with regulatory changes and industry leading trends for best-in-class transaction screening operations

Who You’ll Work With

You will be joining Cisco’s Trade Legal and Compliance group, reporting to the Leader of our Trade Support Services group. Within this group, you’ll lead the team responsible for transaction screening across all Cisco sales and service transactions. You’ll support other teams within some of Cisco’s largest working groups to enable and ensure trade compliance execution through our various supply chains. You’ll be working cross-functionally with various sales and service teams as well as with customers directly.

The Trade Legal & Compliance team is a global group of trade compliance professionals with a diverse set of backgrounds and passions –we adopt new ways of thinking, while helping Cisco ensure our products are delivered amenably with our customers’ needs in mind.

Who You Are

Your Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 12 years' experience and/or Master's degree with 8 years experience delivering dynamic business minded solutions within a trade compliance, finance, law, supply chain, and/or logistics role, as well as strong knowledge and experience developing processes associated with trade (export & import) regulations.
• Experience leading and forming teams of compliance professionals
• Ability to train team on the nuances of transaction screening processes and protocols to ensure they are equipped to handle their roles optimally and efficiently
• Knowledge of how to develop, administer and document transaction screening alert review procedures, processes and programs and training staff responsible for implementation
• Experience conducting know your customer due diligence, risk-assessments, investigations, due diligence of sanctions alerts, including keeping records of analysis and alert disposition
• Familiarity with Enterprise Resource Planning screening software tools (e.g., Oracle Global Trade Management, Global Trade Solution)
• Knowledge of U.S. sanctions regulations and programs (geographic and list-based), EU Sanctions regulations, the BIS Entity List and other applicable denied party regimes and associated risks and prohibited activities

Desired Skills and Characteristics:

• ACAMS or similar sanctions' certification is preferred but not required
• Knowledge of export license requirements
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong project management and decision-making skills
• Ability to balance quality of work with deadlines, in a fast-paced, results oriented culture
• Ability to identify issues affecting work progress and to recommend solutions
• Experience collaborating closely virtual teams and with cross-functional stakeholders

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters – with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world – whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco