Microsoft Looking for Sr. Manager, M&a Finance at Redmond, WA, United States Full Time

Job Description

Do you have a passion for working in a dynamic environment, dealing with complex issues, and creating strategic value to Microsoft by enabling inorganic growth? Are you capable and excited of influencing senior leaders’ decision-making? Do you think you can contribute to acquisition success at Microsoft?

The Microsoft Acquisition and Venture Success (MAVS) team focuses on maximizing deal value. We do this by providing objective and rigorous due diligence, risk identification and mitigation, integration insight, planning and execution, and post deal support. Creating deal value through M&A is the North Star that drives everything we do.

We are opening a new role as Senior Manager, M&A Finance to bring program management expertise to finance integration execution across all M&A deals.

Responsibilities

Job requirements:

• Creates and engages in financial execution of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and divestiture activities, such as developing and maintaining deal and integration cost estimates and forecasts, value driver validation, due diligence, integration planning and execution.
• Provides program management support in finance integration program execution.
• Suggests improvements to integration program to set and achieve integration goals.
• Coordinates finance integration activities across functional workstreams.
• Models compliant culture through actions and decisions, and encouraging others to share risks to compliance and take steps to mitigate.
• Interacts with acquired companies on finance integration topics.
• Provides support to finance deal lead and finance due diligence practice owner in planning and execution of the confirmatory finance due diligence in mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
• Provides support to by coordinating meetings and creating initial integration presentations; coordinates events by creating and sending correspondence and invitations, and supports meeting success.
• Works with functional workstream to develop charters and project plans to outline deliverables and tasks by integration milestone, including owners and due dates.
• Maintains the finance integration RAID log (risk identified, actions to be taken, assumptions to be validated, issues raised, dependencies across workstreams and decisions needed).
• Manages weekly finance integration team syncs, including setting agendas, designing content to reflect the status, accomplishments, and RAID log items, and sending communications after meetings.
• Be a “go-to” person within MAVS finance team for queries and questions from multiple teams – not necessarily always having solution, but being able to engage with finance integration manager and connect with relevant teams to get answers and find a solutions.
• Identifies and escalates issues in a timely manner with facts and options for decision-makers.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Management, Human Resources, Business or equivalent AND 5+ years experience in project management, business operations, finance and analysis, strategic or relationship management role or equivalent experience.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Direct or related mergers & acquisitions experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or other accredited program or project management
• Experience working in the high-tech industry preferred.
• Growing financial/business acumen, ability to translate complex data into meaningful insights and actions.
• Proven communication skills to provide clarity to support advising deal teams and the transaction partner.
• Leadership and management skills and can perform in an environment of ambiguity and drive decisions within short timeframes with limited information.
• Up to 10% of the time may be required for domestic and international travel, sometimes with short notice.
• For Colorado Applicants: The salary range for this role is from $119,200 to $178,800.
• At Microsoft certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.
• Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and fitness benefits, among others.