Senior Finance Manager - Accounting Controllership & Finance Enablement

This Senior Finance Manager – Accounting Controllership & Finance Enablement role supports Microsoft's AI-powered Advertising business, a growing $12B+ online Search, Advertising, and News ecosystem that delivers solutions to the world’s top marketers, agencies, content partners, and brand.

As a member of Corporate Accounting and the Advertising Controllership Team, The Senior Finance Manager - Accounting Controllership & Finance Enablement  overall responsibilities include ensuring complete and accurate financials for the global Advertising business, and supporting financially compliant new Advertising launches.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Accounting Execution and Systems

• Prepares and reviews complex accounting records in compliance with accounting policies and guidelines.
• Investigates and resolves business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other data anomalies. Drives analysis based on data trends.
• Helps lead the setup of processes and procedures that properly capture, track, and report accounting transactions.
• Ensures the key performance indicators of the program are met on time, and relays results to business partners.
• Verifies effective operations with business partners that help with end-to-end processing, payments, accounting, and related finance controls.

Control and Compliance

• Reviews the controls and ensures they are working.
• Maintains Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) controls and related documentation for the advertising business and performs governance activities to ensure that the global control activities are executed in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and SOX regulations.
• Drives end-to end risk assessment activities.
• Provides compliance guidance, as needed. Assists in accurate reporting of issues and remediations.

Enablement/Process Improvement

• Leads Finance Readiness projects to ensure financially compliant business launches
• Contributes to process-improvement efforts by collecting and reviewing business partner and team feedback and incorporating industry best practices.
• Participates in workflow process design sessions, and partners with leaders to update processes.
• Identifies, evaluates, and leverages technology that could automate or speed up internal processes, and brings on relevant vendors.
• Performs gap analysis and helps business process owners design and implement financial controls for Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) cycles.

Other

• Embody our culture and values 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business, Accounting /Finance, or related field AND 3+ years accounting or finance experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting /Finance, or related field AND 4+ years accounting or finance experience OR equivalent experience
• 1+ year(s) of experience in public accounting

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business, Accounting /Finance, or related field AND 6+ years accountin