Microsoft Looking for Senior Finance Manager Commercial Launch at Redmond, WA, United States Full Time

Job Description

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers and partners to drive their business more successfully. The Commerce Finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy responsible for the financial compliance of product and capabilities launches in Microsoft. We partner deeply with Microsoft engineering, operations, and business development teams to drive financial compliance. We collect and prioritize finance risks and requirements, perform user acceptance testing, help launch new offers, and provide appropriate ongoing program management and governance.

As a Senior Finance Manager within the Commerce Finance team, you will lead financial project management processes for launches of Microsoft products, services, or platforms. The role will require driving clarity with stakeholders within engineering, finance, and business development teams, influencing the design of systems & processes as well as providing key insight to business partners.

Responsibilities

Core responsibilities include:

• Collect and identify requirements to launch offers of new or additional features to existing Microsoft products, services, or platforms in collaboration with Stakeholders to ensure financial compliance.
• Represent the Finance function on the launch program team (i.e. cross-functional project team) and represent Finance in governance discussions.
• Implement business-sponsored launches (i.e. projects/initiatives) that align to the business roadmap.
• Leverage project management best practices to partner with and drive Finance function-specific SMEs, engineering leads, business and launch managers to assess impact, align project plans/timelines, monitor progress, test and signoff launches, and track issues and communicate status.
• If needed, drive design work both automated and manual processes in collaboration with engineering and finance teams to enable and implement finance requirements.
• Responsible for verification and obtaining proper sign-off of launches including Requirements and User Acceptance Testing from relevant stakeholders.
• Actively drive communication and participate in the finance readiness rhythm of the business (ROB), to keep Finance stakeholders informed and engaged on product/offer launch topics.
• Facilitate the development of launch readiness solutions across stakeholder groups, as needed.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field AND 4+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
  • OR Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field AND 2+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of finance related experience with progressive advancement.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, MBA / CPA preferred.
• Understanding of GAAP, accounting, and financial close processes.
• Demonstrated ability to form and influence cross-functional partnerships to deliver high impact projects.
• Regularly able to demonstrate leadership and inclusion best practices.
• Ability to think strategically and communicate effectively with all levels of management.
• Manage multiple projects with excellent attention to detail under deadlines.
• Outstanding written & verbal communication skills and experience presenting to executives.
• Proven project management capability and/or ERP systems implementation experience.
• Previous experience working on Digital Transformation or Finance Transformation projects preferred
• Prior Project/Program Management or experience in implementing Strategic Initiatives preferred
• Prior Consulting experience in Project/Program Management or systems implementation preferred

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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