Compliance Specialist, Global Trade Compliance

Why You’ll Love Cisco

We change the World. You will become passionate about your employer and the brand you represent. Everything is converging on the Internet, making networked connections more meaningful than ever before in our lives. Our employees' groundbreaking ideas impact everything. Here, that means we take creative ideas from the drawing board to dynamic solutions that have real world impact. You'll collaborate with Cisco leaders, partner with mentors, and develop incredible relationships with colleagues who share your interest in connecting the unconnected. You'll be part of a team that cares about its customers, enjoys having fun, and you'll take part in changing the lives of those in our local communities. Come prepared to be encouraged and inspired.

What You'll Do

This is an exciting opportunity for a Global Trade Compliance Specialist 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:

• working as part of the team reviewing and conducting due-diligence reviews, specifically denied party, location and end-use/end-user screening for wide variety of sales, service and other transactions
• handling regional and global caseload that consists of reviewing transactions and validating the appropriate export license and/or export license exceptions for transactions
• monitoring internal tools to ensure transactions are compliant and reviewed at the speed of business and determining when escalation is appropriate to senior management and/or trade counsel
• representing the team, developing and maintaining relationships with various internal functional groups to understand and execute 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 adoption and implementation of new and/or updated screening tools, including technology software and systems, training programs and support developing associated processes
• staying up to date with regulatory evolutions pertaining to sanctions screening and business transaction monitoring

Who You’ll Work With

You will be joining Cisco’s Trade Legal and Compliance group, reporting to the Manager of our Trade Screening Pod, this team is responsible for Cisco’s Global Trade screening program support under our corporate Global Trade and Sanctions Compliance Program. Within this group you’ll working with 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.

We’re a global group of Global Trade Compliance Legal and Trade professionals with diverse backgrounds and passions – we embrace new ways of thinking, while helping Cisco ensure our products are delivered compliantly with our customers’ needs in mind.

Who You Are

The successful candidate will have the following:

• Knowledge of U.S. sanctions regulations (geographic and list-based), EU Sanctions regulations, the BIS Entity List and other applicable denied party regimes and associated risks and prohibited activities
• ACAMS or similar sanctions certification is preferred but not required
• Experience reviewing conducting due diligence of sanctions alerts, including record keeping of analysis and alert disposition
• Familiarity with Enterprise Resource Planning screening software tools (e.g., Oracle Global Trade Management, Global Trade Solution)
• Experience with import/export operations; understands Trade Compliance risk management
• Has 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 risk issues affecting work progress and to recommend solutions
• Experience collaborating closely virtual teams and with cross-functional stakeholders
• At a minimum, we expect you to have a BA/BS & 5 years’ experience or Masters & 3 of delivering dynamic business minded solutions within a Trade Compliance, law, supply chain, and/or logistics role, as well as strong knowledge and experience developing processes associated with trade (export & import) regulations.

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!

But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

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!

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Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.