Senior Finance Manager, Accounting Operations

In Finance Operations at Microsoft, you will join a finance organization with a focus on trust, accuracy, and compliance. By leading innovative AI (artificial intelligence)-driven solutions, you will ensure timely and compliant financial reporting, while being a trusted advisor and subject matter specialist who influences process design across diverse businesses and stakeholders.

This Senior Finance Manager, Accounting Operations role is a part of Microsoft Finance's Accounting Operations team supporting our key strategic finance partners.  In this role, you will lead financial processing and analysis efforts, providing strategic insights to support accurate and compliant financials for our business partners. You will be expected to proactively work toward solutions and help people succeed through cross-group collaboration, awareness of others, and adhering to policy and standards centering on accuracy, compliance, and risk management.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Prepares and reviews complex accounting records in compliance with accounting policies and guidelines. Interprets reports and records for managers/stakeholders, and provides support and troubleshooting to users. Investigates and resolves business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other data anomalies. Drives analysis based on data trends.

• Creates, reviews, and updates one or more complex accounting systems, such as general ledger, accounts receivables, accounts payable, fixed assets, treasury, supply chain or revenue. Helps lead the setup of processes and procedures that properly capture, track, and report accounting transactions. Ensures the key performance indicators (KPI) 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.

• Reviews the controls and ensures they are working. Maintains Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) controls and related documentation, 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 and assist controls owners in maintaining and operating SOX controls. Provides compliance guidance, as needed, and assists in accurate reporting of issues and remediations.

• Contributes to process-improvement efforts by collecting and reviewing business partner and team feedback, as well as incorporating industry optimal 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 SOX cycles.

• Helps resolve problems by acting as an escalation point for vendors that are conducting basic functions. Conduct day-to-day governance of vendors.

• Other: Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting /Finance, or rela