Stat & Tax Controller

If you love the pursuit of excellence and are inspired by the challenges that come through driving innovations that impact how the world lives, works and plays, then our Americas Enterprise Microsoft Games team invites you to learn more about our Stat & Controller open role - and the value we deliver across Microsoft and to our customers and partners.

We offer unique opportunities to work on interesting global projects in an environment that appreciates diversity, focuses on talent development and recognizes and rewards great work.

Responsibilities

In this role, the Stat & Tax Controller

• Researches and documents accounting standards, guidelines, and policies.
• Prepares and reviews complex accounting records in compliance with accounting policies and guidelines.
• Prepares and reviews complex financial statements and drafts disclosures for regulatory accounting filings.
• Reviews the controls and ensures they are working.
• Serves as an escalation point of contact to resolve complex issues when governing vendors.
• Create, review, and update one or more complex accounting systems such as general ledger, accounts receivables, accounts payable, fixed assets, treasury, supply chain, or revenue.
• Contribute to process-improvement efforts by collecting and reviewing business partner and team feedback and incorporating industry best practices.

Control and Compliance

Reviews the controls and ensures they are working. Maintains SOX controls and related documentation and performs governance activities to ensure that the global control activities are executed in compliance with GAAP and SOX regulations.

Drives end-to-end risk assessment activities. Assist controls owners in maintaining and operating SOX controls. Provide compliance guidance, as needed.

Assists in accurate reporting of issues and remediations.

External Financial Statement Disclosure Analysis and Preparation

Prepares and reviews complex financial statements and drafts disclosures for regulatory accounting filings. Partners with business partners (e.g., auditors).

Vendor Governance

Serves as an escalation point of contact to resolve complex issues when governing vendors. Conducts day-to-day governance of vendor team by reviewing their output / KPIs / Metrics in alignment with service-level agreements per the business process outsourcing model to ensure accuracy and compliance.

Interprets and adheres to policy and standards while concentrating on accuracy, compliance and risk management. Resolves issues in collaboration with business partners, team members, or vendor leadership.

Identifies inefficient processes and offers suggestions of improved processes and helps drive implementation.

Accounting Systems

Creates, reviews, and updates one or more complex accounting systems such as general ledger, accounts receivables, accounts payable, fixed assets, treasury, supply chain, or revenue.

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.

Enablement / Process Improvement

Contributes 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 SOX cycles.

Accounting Execution

Prepares and reviews complex accounting records in compliance with accounting policies and guidelines. Interprets reports and records for managers / stakeholders.

Provides support and troubleshooting to users. Investigates and resolves business partner inquiries, accounting deviations, and other data anomalies.

Drives analysis based on data trends.

Identify, Create, and Maintain Accounting Policies

Researches and documents accounting standards, guidelines, and policies. Helps to field complex questions from business partners in alignment with accounting policies.

Proposes policy updates to leadership.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ 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 4+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA or equivalent
• 8+ years accounting or finance experience OR equivalent experience

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