Microsoft Senior Finance Manager - Data Scientist 

United States, Washington 

735225995

Required/Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years Accounting/Finance experience
• Experience in transforming the controllership function and/or activities such as record to report, order to cash, source to pay.
• Experience implementing systems and tools, focusing on automation and compliance
• Experience identifying and managing process improvement initiatives
• Business partnering experience, collaborative and inclusive when working with others
• Experience with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project life cycle
• Support change management, stakeholder communication and user training during system/tools implementation phases
• Able to connect finance needs with systems/tools automation and improvements
• Technical skills and ability to understand system infrastructure, tooling, UAT, and automation needs
• Able to manage multiple work streams and prioritize as needed
• Experience translating financial analysis and insights into meaningful and actionable business communications and recommendations
• Proven skills in proactively driving and delivering value and impactful project results through both individual and virtual-team efforts

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Project manage and collaborate across cross-functional business partners (Engineering/Finance) to manage key tools/systems build outs and implementation, while managing associated budget to ensure results are delivered within expectations
• Enhance data collection procedures to include all relevant information for optimizing analytics
• Opportunistically evolve current state to drive continuous improvement and standardization of finance/accounting processes, including implementation of best practices to promote compliance, efficiency, accuracy, and time.
• Create, track and maintain project plans to support the transformation roadmap of our current systems to the desired state in collaboration with key stakeholders
• Support Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and business teams in root/cause analysis, bug resolution, enhancement, testing and change management of MSIO’s systems and tools
• Tailor communication to audiences at all levels including upper-level leadership on status of projects
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) monitoring and reporting to facilitate prioritization and to measure impact of implementations
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