Senior Finance Manager- Credit Risk

• Leverage technology in managing credit risk, performing analysis, building risk models and credit solutions for capacity restraint situations
• Develop and leverage relationships with key stakeholders to enable customer focused financing solutions that mitigate Microsoft’s business risk
• Provide business leader support and actionable insights during financial close periods
• Responsible for approving transactions like Collectability Reserve, Payment plans and restructuring, non-standard payment terms, etc.
• Overall credit risk accountability of providing support, direction, and leadership for portfolio of trade AR and financing receivables
• Understand customer credit capacity needs
• drive and support customer satisfaction initiatives, address customer and stakeholder queries
• Contributes to new and unconventional methods and approaches to data collection, analysis, interpretation, and financial models
• Provides advice and direction in evaluating suitability and reliability of data, articulate limitations, and propose solutions on data management and operations
• Partner with other Treasury teams including Payment Solution Desk, and Customer Advocacy to deliver customer focused solutions that drive deal velocity while mitigating Microsoft’s credit exposure
• Engage in projects across Treasury to drive efficiencies, mitigate Microsoft’s credit exposure, and increase automation in credit risk
• Develops new approaches to leverage best-in-class technology (e.g., Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Predictive Analytics etc.) to accomplish goals
• Manage and execute processes through engagement with internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate with business leaders to define action plans for financial and business analysis findings
• Integrates varied data sources and assimilates the information into a comprehensive, clear narrative
• Communicates results in a compelling, timely, and understandable message through storytelling
• Articulates understanding and awareness of business partner situations
• Develops and manages strategies to proactively mitigate, or reactively address, potential adverse effects of macroeconomic and/or geopolitical risks
• Assesses potential impacts of changes
• Supports key organizational processes
• provides input for annual risk assessment
• engages in cross team collaboration
• Provide business insights and recommendations to peers and stakeholders to support revenue growth in a compliant manner
• Ensures compliance with company policies, legal standards, and regulatory requirements by reviewing and monitoring the accuracy of financial documents and business processes
• Drives corrective measures
• Supports questions regarding documentation, policy adherence, and requirements
• Remains current on all company policies and procedures and updates others
• Ensures collaboration between business stakeholders and internal audit team
• Meets with internal and external auditors to discuss audit procedures, respond to questions, and provide information and records
• Manages accounting and financial compliance, including the collection of data, accurate record-keeping, and coordinating with local Finance, Regional, and Corporate teams to implement reporting processes and ensure compliance with local legislations and statutory requirements
• Advises and consults with peers and stakeholders regarding documentation, policy adherence, and sharing of financial data and information to minimize risk
• Understands and adheres to financial compliance standards, Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards
• Embody Microsoft culture and values

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 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 equivalent experience.

• Reporting, Analytics, and/or forecasting
• Adept usage of CoPilot, CoWork and other AI toolsets across a large corporate environment
• Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, credit risk, controllership or finance, or related field
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across teams to achieve results