Sr. Accounting Manager (M&A)

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The Team:
Fueled by the desire to continually enhance existing products or move into new lines of business through acquisitions, Microsoft has long been one of the largest serial acquirers in the world. Microsoft's Divestitures, Acquisitions, and Ventures Accounting (DAVA) team has the unique opportunity to lead, plan and execute the accounting and integration management of newly acquired companies into the Microsoft financial reporting ecosystem. Are you interested in a dynamic and ever-changing environment, passionate about working within an excellence-pursuing team that works across organizational and company boundaries, and driving collective success of Microsoft acquisition strategy? Then the DAVA team is for you!
The Role:
We are hiring a Senior (M&A) Finance Manager with a strong drive for synthesizing the complex and cross-functional collaboration to join us and help to lead the strategic transformational accounting programs in DAVA.
The focus is on the GAAP guidance for M&A deals which leads to strategic transformation of accounting programs and infrastructure, involves with standardization and enhancement to related process, and supports statutory/org controllers & entities by collaborating various corporate teams in the policy compliance space. This position further supports month/quarter end governance activities related to consolidated analysis and international subsidiary close measurement through acquired entities.Responsibilities

• Lead the efforts of evaluating deals with complicated global entity structure and various initiatives with large-scale financial master data implications to ensure adherence to MS policy, GAAP and SOX regulation.
• Primary liaison of accounting controls and process improvements. This includes collaboration with various corporate teams and supporting groups to assess upcoming cycle of acquired business process and tool changes. Involve with assessing the feasibility and efficiency of solutions with a GAAP compliance view.
• Interpret corporate policies to the partnering acquired accounting teams regarding inquiries of core accounting system rules and regulations and facilitate resolution to audit issues. Lead the efforts to develop and deliver a series of targeted training refreshers.
• Support period-end close and reporting activities in DAVA. This includes joining cross-team efforts to assure business intelligence quality and accuracy relates to monthly management review and quarterly external reporting process.
• Act as a resource for various ad hoc projects.

Skills:

• Program management : Ability to manage complex finance platform transformational projects. Track record of running operations/ projects for complex teams, with an attention to detail, organization, structure and process. You demonstrate an ability to insert yourself in various aspects of running M&A activities through integration/ divestiture management office, able to define overall approaches, with synergies defined.
• Developing complex analysis, planning and solutions : Proficient in bringing together pertinent stakeholders, building consensus, able to draft and articulate complex finance infrastructure modeling or financial reporting topics, including integration approaches, points of view, solutions options and roadmaps, presenting and getting buy in from executive stakeholders, and can communicate with a broad set of business stakeholders. Knowledge of SAP and modernized data tools (e.g. PowerBI) is a plus.
• M&A experience : You have a good understanding of purchasing accounting, fair value evaluation, external reporting and conversant with change management, can take a big picture view to look across process/ functional areas, identify dependencies, translate business needs. You are proficient to assess a deal with core finance infrastructure concepts such as reporting hierarchy, master data management, close management, and system landscape etc.

• Ownership - Demonstrate a natural inquisitiveness towards problem solving that are ambiguous and not clearly defined; have an aptitude to be able to evaluate problem statements and analytically drive clarity and engagement. Display a mindset of being self-driven/proactive to situations and thrives in taking accountability and ownership.
• Organization - Have an attention for detail and be well organized to manage multiple parallel and complex priorities and responsibilities.
• Collaboration - As most strategic and tactical plan development is about working with others, both within an immediate team, as well as across business units and finance and accounting function of the acquired company, an ability to collaborate effectively is a core competency to have. Ability to generate trust, build alliances across the organization, and orchestrate interdisciplinary teams to the benefit of the acquiring business, the acquired business, and related employees.
• Customer Focus - A focus on delivering customer value and being able to directly tie decisions and actions to that value. Create a strategic integration roadmap and drive it to successful implementation.
• Drive For Results - Being able to drive for results, following a problem through to its conclusion by engaging with relevant stakeholders, building definition and consensus and helping to solve it.

QualificationsRequired:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting/Finance, or related field AND 8+ years accounting or finance experience OR Master's Degree in Business, Accounting/Finance, or related field AND 6+ years accounting or finance experience.
• 3+ years of experience in managing cross functional, cross organizational and business combination related programs
• 2+ years of experience in delivering complex/or critical external filing related function in global statutory space

Preferred:

• 3+ years of experience in M&A accounting in industry/ consulting capacity with solid understanding of GAAP and internal controls
• Exposure to business combination life cycle management tools & methodologies, and integration management system framework, etc.

Accounting IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $91,800 - $178,800 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 $117,900 - $195,000 per year.
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