Finance Manager - Corporate Accounting

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Corporate Accounting Revenue Assurance team is looking for a skilled, motivated Finance Manager - Corporate Accounting professional with a drive to ensure complete and accurate financial results.

The Corporate Accounting Reporting and Analysis team focuses on defining revenue recognition policy across products and programs, enhancing and consulting on system integration and design, researching GAAP revenue recognition questions and analyzing and reporting consolidated financial results. This position will focus on controllership activities related to Per User products and services (such as Windows, Office, and Dynamics).

This individual contributor position requires a collaborative and motivated individual who enjoys working closely with business partners to deeply understand business strategy and related processes. This position provides visibility to senior management across our business groups as well as an opporutnity to work with a great team of professionals experienced in technical accounting.

This is a work-hybrid position from one of our Redmond WA, Atlanta GA, or Reston VA offices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting /Finance, or related field AND 2+ years accounting or finance experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business, Accounting /Finance, or related field AND 1+ year(s) accounting or finance experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years related work experience, preferably a mix of tech companies and public accounting
• Proven US GAAP knowledge and experience, with emphasis on ASC 606
• Significant experience in software and technology industry is a plus
• CPA or equivalent preferred
• Ability to collaborate and be comfortable dealing with ambiguity, influencing across multiple complex organization, and creating effecting partnerships; ability to effectively scopes accounting issues, apply the relevant accounting knowledge base and make decisions with conviction; make the complex simple
• Experience in business partnering and cross-group collaboration
• Experience with financial and analytical data, progress delivery and data presentation skills to all levels preferred
• Must be a self-starter, well organized, adaptable, and able to multi-task and work well under pressure

Accounting IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $75,100 - $148,900 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $98,800 - $163,300 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 10, 2025

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• Close Process: Reviews complex accounting records in compliance with accounting policies and guidelines. Complete month-end close activities, own content for Monthly Business Review/Quarterly Business Review leadership presentations, and assist in internal and external audit queries.
• Review and maintain Operational and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) controls and monthly inter-Systems reconciliations.
• Develop a solid understanding of end-to-end processes, data flows, control environment, and financial systems supporting Online Commercial revenue.
• Drives end to end risk assessment activities and investigations of identified system and financial issues within the end-to-end reporting processes. Work proactively with various business and engineering partners to solve open issues and ensure risks are mitigated with appropriate financial processes and have sound internal controls in place.
• Design and execute manual processes to bridge any system gaps that both planned and unplanned.
• Develop relationships with business partners and take a leadership role on cross-group initiatives to improve business and reporting processes and solve problems. Provide guidance to stakeholders to ensure all risks and issues are appropriately captured, mitigated, and managed.