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Posted date: Mar 14, 2025
Category: Finance
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $167,100
Range: $115,000 - $219,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: People Manager
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. We contribute to our company’s mission through delivering excellence in the Corporate Accounting organization. We are hiring a GL Close and Consolidation Group Manager to lead a great team of professionals who drive the month end close and consolidation processes for the company.The General Ledger (GL) Close and Consolidation team orchestrates the month end activities of thousands of Finance employees while also playing a role as the center of excellence for key processes such as fiscal close oversight, foreign exchange accounting, intercompany monitoring and financial statement consolidation. Our team has best in class partnering with Engineering to ensure Microsoft achieves its close standard – each and every month. We are the core of producing Microsoft’s monthly financials and we do it with excellence.
This people leader role champions a broad vision that drives growth transformation and provides oversight in the review of complex accounting records in compliance with accounting policies and guidelines.
Our team is collaborative, supportive, and fun while consistently striving to raise the bar. We work hard on exciting things and are passionate about having a team culture that values diverse perspectives and individuals. We strive to be more today than we were yesterday – every single day.
Accounting Execution: Establishes objectives and procedures for the team while leading them through reviews of complex accounting records in compliance with accounting policies and guidelines. Interprets complex reports and records for managers/stakeholders. Provides escalated support and troubleshooting to the Finance community. Investigates and resolves business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other data anomalies. Drives analysis based on data trends.
Enablement/Process Improvement: Leads a team in process improvement efforts through soliciting business partner and team feedback and partners with software engineers to redesign systems and processes. Drives gap remediation activities by helping design appropriate controls..
Control and Compliance: Maintains Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) controls and related documentation. Performs governance activities to ensure that the global control activities are executed in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and SOX regulations. Engages with the Compliance Committee. Leads global end-to-end financial cycle risk assessment activities. Leads SOX/Financial control design and implementation. Collaborates with the SOX State Control's Office (SCO) and acts as the Sub-cycle Location Owner (SCLO) as needed. Ensures financial compliance activities are appropriately discharged. Leads reporting of financial compliance results to management and helps drive appropriate actions.
Accounting Policy: Leads team to research industry accounting trends. Stays current with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Fields escalated questions from global business partners on accounting policies. Uses unique knowledge to solve difficult and novel technical problems impacting the broader organization, and proposes and reviews updated policies with the leadership team.
Qualifications
Minimum / Required Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting /Finance, or related field AND 7+ years accounting or finance experience OR Master's Degree in Business, Accounting /Finance, or related field AND 6+ years accounting or finance experience OR equivalent experience. 4+ years of experience with SAP Finance modules and functionalityPreferred Qualifications:
Professional accounting certification such as CPA or equivalent.2+ years people management experience.4+Practical experience with SAP ECC Finance modules and functionalityDemonstrated leadership experienceAble to manage multiple deliverables in a fast-paced environmentGreat collaboration, teamwork, and business partnershipWorking knowledge of Microsoft OfficeAble to handle complex business needs, with a high degree of ambiguity - Be relentless and push back when required.Excellent communication skills (written and oral), including an ability to communicate effectively across varied function stakeholders.Accounting M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $115,000 - $200,300 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 $146,200 - $219,200 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 March 28, 2025.
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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