Senior Finance Manager - Accounting Controllership & Finance Enablement
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 05, 2025 | |
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OverviewThis Senior Finance Manager - Accounting Controllership & Finance Enablement role supports Microsoft's AI-powered Advertising business, a growing $12B+ online Search, Advertising, and News ecosystem that delivers solutions to the world's top marketers, agencies, content partners, and brand. As a member of Corporate Accounting and the Advertising Controllership Team, The Senior Finance Manager - Accounting Controllership & Finance Enablement overall responsibilities include ensuring complete and accurate financials for the global Advertising business, and supporting financially compliant new Advertising launches. 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.
ResponsibilitiesAccounting Execution and SystemsPrepares and reviews complex accounting records in compliance with accounting policies and guidelines.Investigates and resolves business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other data anomalies. Drives analysis based on data trends.Helps lead the setup of processes and procedures that properly capture, track, and report accounting transactions.Ensures the key performance indicators of the program are met on time, and relays results to business partners.Verifies effective operations with business partners that help with end-to-end processing, payments, accounting, and related finance controls.Control and ComplianceReviews the controls and ensures they are working.Maintains Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) controls and related documentation for the advertising business and performs governance activities to ensure that the global control activities are executed in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and SOX regulations.Drives end-to end risk assessment activities.Provides compliance guidance, as needed. Assists in accurate reporting of issues and remediations.Enablement/Process ImprovementLeads Finance Readiness projects to ensure financially compliant business launchesContributes to process-improvement efforts by collecting and reviewing business partner and team feedback and incorporating industry best practices.Participates in workflow process design sessions, and partners with leaders to update processes.Identifies, evaluates, and leverages technology that could automate or speed up internal processes, and brings on relevant vendors.Performs gap analysis and helps business process owners design and implement financial controls for Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) cycles.OtherEmbody our culture and values | |