Compliance Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Supply Chain, Hospitality, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in global business travel, travel and expense, shared services, procurement, finance operations, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated success transforming complex, global processes through simplification, standardization, digitization, and automation.
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end travel and expense ecosystem, including approvals, travel management companies, online booking tools, corporate cards, expense platforms, reimbursement, and compliance controls.
• Experience leading global suppliers and technology-enabled services.
• Strong analytical capability and demonstrated use of data to improve controls, cost, service, and employee experience.
• Proven ability to lead across organizational boundaries and influence senior stakeholders in a complex global environment.
• Strong change leadership, communication, and program-management skills.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.

Responsibilities

• Lead Ford’s global business travel strategy and end-to-end travel lifecycle, including trip initiation, pre-trip assessment and approval, booking, traveler support, corporate card processes, expense reporting, and reimbursement.
• Integrate immigration, tax, security, and other compliance requirements into the travel journey while reducing friction, handoffs, duplicate data entry, and administrative burden.
• Develop and execute a multi-year roadmap to simplify, digitize, and automate global travel processes.
• Partner with technology teams and providers to integrate approval, booking, card, expense, and compliance platforms; enable automated approvals, embedded policy controls, and exception-based management.
• Own global travel policy, governance, approval authorities, exceptions, and audit controls, balancing compliance and financial discipline with speed, simplicity, and traveler experience.
• Oversee travel suppliers, technology providers, and commercial performance; partner with Procurement and Finance on sourcing, contracts, negotiated programs, and supplier accountability.
• Establish measurable service standards and use employee feedback, journey mapping, dashboards, and operational analytics to improve service, policy compliance, cost, productivity, and adoption of approved channels and preferred suppliers.
• Lead and develop a global travel team, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery across regions.
• Build partnerships across HR, Finance, Procurement, Tax, Immigration, Security, Technology, Legal, and business leadership; clarify ownership across the travel lifecycle; and lead global change management and adoption of new policies, processes, and technologies.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
• Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized backup child care.
• Family-building benefits, including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement and fertility treatments.
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases.
• Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.
• Paid time off for individual and team community service.
• Vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.