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Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential, and excitement for the journey ahead. As a Corporate Accounting Launch Manager, you will play a critical role in scaling Microsoft’s ability to deliver compliant, timely launches in a rapidly evolving environment. New, go to market capabilities are driven by AI compete, regulatory compliance, and new Azure offers and this role ensures that these offers can transact at scale with appropriate revenue accounting compliance. This role is pivotal in maintaining investor confidence and operational excellence while supporting Microsoft’s growth in emerging technologies and complex commercial arrangements.
Job Responsibility:
Direct and manage launches across all accounting SMEs, prioritizing and evaluating changes for impacts to recognized revenue, unearned revenue, and RPO
Partner with stakeholders to develop scalable processes, mitigate compliance risks, and optimize resource allocation under accelerated timelines
Contribute to risk-based prioritization frameworks and leverage AI-driven efficiencies to meet increasing demand
Engage US GAAP experts to ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting, and internal control requirements
Ensure accounting SMEs provide input and signoff on new offers and systems capabilities through the launch process
Manage key accounting close processes to ensure revenue accounting over manual activities are aligned with documented controls and procedures
Understand accounting revenue standards and learn about accounting policies and guidelines to conform with those standards
Prepare and review accounting records in compliance with accounting policies and guidelines and interpret reports and records for managers/stakeholders and as needed investigate and resolve business partner inquiries, accounting deviations and other data anomalies
Prepare analysis to review process performance and report this analysis to management
Review controls and related documentation, and applies to newly created reports to ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) regulations
Help resolve problems, conflicts, or questions by acting as an escalation point for vendors conducting basic functions and under supervision, governs metrics and service level agreements per the business process outsourcing model to ensure accuracy and compliance while adhering to policy and standards while concentrating on accuracy, compliance, and risk management
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or related field OR equivalent experience
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or related field AND 1+ year(s) accounting or finance internship experience OR equivalent experience
Professional accounting certification such as CPA or equivalent