Senior Finance Manager

If you love the pursuit of excellence and are inspired by the unique complexities that come with driving innovations that impact how the world lives, works, and plays, then we invite you to join the Commerce Financial Compliance Engagement team within Microsoft Business Operations (MBO) as a Finance professional and be part of a worldwide transformation in technology! 

We help to ensure the most important priorities go to market to support Microsoft’s commercial customers and partners. In this critical role as a Sr. Finance Manager, you will manage a portfolio of launches, partnering cross-functionally with business, finance and engineering teams to drive financial compliance across the launch delivery life cycle. You will bring financial acumen and accounting expertise to write finance requirements and influence the design of financial systems and processes to deliver customer solutions. You will collaborate with finance stakeholders to deliver accurate and compliant revenue recognition and financial reporting.  

At the heart of Microsoft’s business operations, you will elevate your knowledge and develop a deep understanding of the company’s core products and selling motions, as well as system data flow and output, leveraging this experience to accelerate your career growth. 

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

• Business Partnership: Effectively collaborate with business partners and stakeholders to ensure a holistic “One Microsoft” approach to delivering financially compliant launches with speed, quality and agility. Negotiate and implement solutions to complex financial transactions with business partners 
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• Portfolio Management: Manage a diverse portfolio of Microsoft deals in partnership with the Planning & Launch team to deliver financially compliant go-to-market solutions for Microsoft’s Commercial customers and partners 
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• Financial Compliance: Interpret business requirements for launch to define finance requirements that impact transactional and financial systems/processes. Drive the design, implementation, and testing of new features and system functionality by partnering with Financial System Engineering team and Finance stakeholders to ensure all financial reporting and compliance requirements are met according to company and regulatory policies.  

• Risk Mitigation: Provide financial expertise to business partners to mitigate company, financial, and business risk in launch delivery, creating clarity on complex finance and accounting transactions and ensuring accurate revenue recognition and financial reporting. 

• Project Management: Build relationships and drive accountability while managing critical timeline and milestones throughout launch delivery lifecycle, documenting launch status and financial compliance risks