Finance Manager

Are you looking for an opportunity to play a key role in our transition to cloud services?   Do you want to help us enhance financial performance insight and enable greater cost transparency into Cloud Infrastructure?   If so come join MCI Finance as a Finance Manager on the Financial Reporting & Systems team!

Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Finance (MCI Finance) is a new, exciting and fast evolving finance team within Microsoft Finance at the forefront of Microsoft’s Mobile First, Cloud First strategy with a charter to:

  Drive End to end Cloud Infrastructure planning and drive unit cost of capacity down

  Expand Cloud Servers Profitability with a focus on Gross Margin

  Support Long Term bets to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition

  Enhance transparency into Cloud Infrastructure costs to drive the right behavior

The team supports over 200 online services including Azure, Office 365, Bing, Outlook.com, Xbox Live, OneDrive and Skype!  

The Financial Reporting & Systems’ core focus is on enabling greater transparency into Cloud Infrastructure costs to drive the right behavior.   The team is primarily responsible for Finance Rhythm of Business and process efficiencies, consolidated reporting and analytics, financial reporting systems and automation, and current + next generation of internal cost allocation models.   This is a highly visible and pivotal team within MCI Finance, with responsibility for key deliverables and engagement with multiple stakeholders including MCI Finance Leadership, C+E & ASG Central Controllerships, and CFP&A.  

To be successful in the role, the Finance Manager requires a mix of strong analytical, financial reporting and business process excellence skills to provide the appropriate level of key Finance ROB guidance and consolidated financial insight.   In addition, the successful candidate will need to have the ability and confidence to work across teams, understand and communicate integrated processes, manage change to simplify, make seamless integrations and drive future advancements.

Core Responsibilities:

• Finance Rhythms of Business (ROB):   Manage the MCI Finance’s Finance (ROB) for close, forecasting, target setting and budgeting in alignment with the C+E/ASG and corporate timelines.   Communicate required deliverables clearly and facilitate reviews with key MCI Finance stakeholders.

• Financial Reporting:   Drive consolidated financial reporting and analysis for MCI Finance and preparation of key deliverables for monthly close, planning (forecast, budget, target etc.) and other financial cycle.

• Process Transformation:   Lead process efficiencies to continuously improve monthly close, forecasting and planning cycles to ensure key deadlines and deliverables are optimized.

• Automation:   Collaborate with MCI Finance stakeholders on end-to-end reporting solutions via automation to enable greater productivity, simplification and enhanced cost transparency.

• Partnership:   Support the Financial Reporting & Systems team engagement with key stakeholders in MCI Finance, C+E Finance, ASG Finance, and CFP&A.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Controllership, Audit or similar functions

• Strong competencies in the Office suite: especially Excel, Powerpivot and PowerPoint.   Hands-on knowledge of MS finance tools (MSRA, Mercury, PlanCast, BWB, MBRT, Headtrax, etc.), controls, and systems.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• Ability to manage multiple and competing projects/priorities.

• Strong communication, cross group collaboration and interpersonal skills

• Strong, proven program management, process change and process management skills

• Highly developed analytical and organizational skills

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, high pressure environment

• Experience in cloud services/infrastructure or related technology fields a plus

Education

BA/BS in Accounting or Finance. MBA, CPA and/or advanced technical degree preferred

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Finance Manager

Are you looking for an opportunity to play a key role in our transition to cloud services?   Do you want to help us enhance financial performance insight and enable greater cost transparency into Cloud Infrastructure?   If so come join MCI Finance as a Finance Manager on the Financial Reporting & Systems team!

Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Finance (MCI Finance) is a new, exciting and fast evolving finance team within Microsoft Finance at the forefront of Microsoft’s Mobile First, Cloud First strategy with a charter to:

  Drive End to end Cloud Infrastructure planning and drive unit cost of capacity down

  Expand Cloud Servers Profitability with a focus on Gross Margin

  Support Long Term bets to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition

  Enhance transparency into Cloud Infrastructure costs to drive the right behavior

The team supports over 200 online services including Azure, Office 365, Bing, Outlook.com, Xbox Live, OneDrive and Skype!  

The Financial Reporting & Systems’ core focus is on enabling greater transparency into Cloud Infrastructure costs to drive the right behavior.   The team is primarily responsible for Finance Rhythm of Business and process efficiencies, consolidated reporting and analytics, financial reporting systems and automation, and current + next generation of internal cost allocation models.   This is a highly visible and pivotal team within MCI Finance, with responsibility for key deliverables and engagement with multiple stakeholders including MCI Finance Leadership, C+E & ASG Central Controllerships, and CFP&A.  

To be successful in the role, the Finance Manager requires a mix of strong analytical, financial reporting and business process excellence skills to provide the appropriate level of key Finance ROB guidance and consolidated financial insight.   In addition, the successful candidate will need to have the ability and confidence to work across teams, understand and communicate integrated processes, manage change to simplify, make seamless integrations and drive future advancements.

Core Responsibilities:

• Finance Rhythms of Business (ROB):   Manage the MCI Finance’s Finance (ROB) for close, forecasting, target setting and budgeting in alignment with the C+E/ASG and corporate timelines.   Communicate required deliverables clearly and facilitate reviews with key MCI Finance stakeholders.

• Financial Reporting:   Drive consolidated financial reporting and analysis for MCI Finance and preparation of key deliverables for monthly close, planning (forecast, budget, target etc.) and other financial cycle.

• Process Transformation:   Lead process efficiencies to continuously improve monthly close, forecasting and planning cycles to ensure key deadlines and deliverables are optimized.

• Automation:   Collaborate with MCI Finance stakeholders on end-to-end reporting solutions via automation to enable greater productivity, simplification and enhanced cost transparency.

• Partnership:   Support the Financial Reporting & Systems team engagement with key stakeholders in MCI Finance, C+E Finance, ASG Finance, and CFP&A.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Controllership, Audit or similar functions

• Strong competencies in the Office suite: especially Excel, Powerpivot and PowerPoint.   Hands-on knowledge of MS finance tools (MSRA, Mercury, PlanCast, BWB, MBRT, Headtrax, etc.), controls, and systems.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• Ability to manage multiple and competing projects/priorities.

• Strong communication, cross group collaboration and interpersonal skills

• Strong, proven program management, process change and process management skills

• Highly developed analytical and organizational skills

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, high pressure environment

• Experience in cloud services/infrastructure or related technology fields a plus

Education

BA/BS in Accounting or Finance. MBA, CPA and/or advanced technical degree preferred

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Group Finance Manager

The Group Finance Manager is part of the Operating Systems (OS) Strategic Analytics team that serves as a center of excellence for all insights and analytics related to the health of the Windows business. This person will lead a team of 3 talented finance managers, with the primary focus of enhancing insights into our business performance. The ideal candidate will combine great people management with a high degree of business acumen and technical financial analysis skills.

•      Drive best-in-class insights on Windows and Windows Phone activations and retail performance to measure health of the business

•      Maintain regular cadence of reporting and analysis of business performance

–      Weekly activation flash (Windows & Windows Phone) to senior management

–      Retail dashboards to measure competitive performance and highlight risks and opportunities

–      Monthly update of the OS components of the Board Of Directors scorecard

•      Start bi-weekly ad-hoc deep dive analysis on topics of current interest

•      Partner with peer finance teams on the monthly business insight review with CFO and the OS Leadership Team scorecard reviews

•      Partner with the business excellence team to simplify information flow and enable self-serve reporting on key sources of data

•      Lead the development of   dashboards, KPIs and metrics to track performance and impact of pricing decisions

•      Develop and regularly monitor the device landscape across form factor (PC, phone, tablet) and hardware specifications using internal and external data to understand impact of pricing decisions

•      Track progress across OS investments in device categories and highlight market trends

•      Partner with the device market intelligence team and OS engineering to develop a common view of the Windows and Internet Explorer installed base/share across form factor and OS version

•      Partner with engineering to develop a monthly dashboard of Windows installed base by OS version, form factor and geography

•      Drive the long-range installed base forecast to serve as input into key business decisions

•      Develop a rhythm to analyze and monitor OS platform adoption towards stated goals

•      Track progress of Internet Explorer share by OS version as well as IE fragmentation

•      Partner with peer finance teams and OS engineering and marketing   teams to develop a joint view of monetization on the Windows platform

•      Partner with engineering to understand and track user behavior/monetization on Windows SKUs

•      Develop a rhythm of business with peer finance teams to track monetization progress of first party apps and services on Windows

•      Ensure development and satisfaction of team by providing challenging and meaningful development opportunities

•      Responsibility for coaching and developing the team and succession planning

•      Ensuring continuity in areas of success on MS Poll and improvement in areas of development

Qualifications:

•      7-10+ years of increasing responsibility in financial analysis roles

•      High level of business acumen and ability to spot trends and garner key insights from high volumes of data

•      Strong attention to detail

•      Strong business partnering skills, needs ability to influence without authority

•      Very strong technical finance skills (Excel mastery is expected; experience working with PowerPivot, macros, SQL a strong plus)

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Group Finance Manager

The Group Finance Manager is part of the Operating Systems (OS) Strategic Analytics team that serves as a center of excellence for all insights and analytics related to the health of the Windows business. This person will lead a team of 3 talented finance managers, with the primary focus of enhancing insights into our business performance. The ideal candidate will combine great people management with a high degree of business acumen and technical financial analysis skills.

•      Drive best-in-class insights on Windows and Windows Phone activations and retail performance to measure health of the business

•      Maintain regular cadence of reporting and analysis of business performance

–      Weekly activation flash (Windows & Windows Phone) to senior management

–      Retail dashboards to measure competitive performance and highlight risks and opportunities

–      Monthly update of the OS components of the Board Of Directors scorecard

•      Start bi-weekly ad-hoc deep dive analysis on topics of current interest

•      Partner with peer finance teams on the monthly business insight review with CFO and the OS Leadership Team scorecard reviews

•      Partner with the business excellence team to simplify information flow and enable self-serve reporting on key sources of data

•      Lead the development of   dashboards, KPIs and metrics to track performance and impact of pricing decisions

•      Develop and regularly monitor the device landscape across form factor (PC, phone, tablet) and hardware specifications using internal and external data to understand impact of pricing decisions

•      Track progress across OS investments in device categories and highlight market trends

•      Partner with the device market intelligence team and OS engineering to develop a common view of the Windows and Internet Explorer installed base/share across form factor and OS version

•      Partner with engineering to develop a monthly dashboard of Windows installed base by OS version, form factor and geography

•      Drive the long-range installed base forecast to serve as input into key business decisions

•      Develop a rhythm to analyze and monitor OS platform adoption towards stated goals

•      Track progress of Internet Explorer share by OS version as well as IE fragmentation

•      Partner with peer finance teams and OS engineering and marketing   teams to develop a joint view of monetization on the Windows platform

•      Partner with engineering to understand and track user behavior/monetization on Windows SKUs

•      Develop a rhythm of business with peer finance teams to track monetization progress of first party apps and services on Windows

•      Ensure development and satisfaction of team by providing challenging and meaningful development opportunities

•      Responsibility for coaching and developing the team and succession planning

•      Ensuring continuity in areas of success on MS Poll and improvement in areas of development

Qualifications:

•      7-10+ years of increasing responsibility in financial analysis roles

•      High level of business acumen and ability to spot trends and garner key insights from high volumes of data

•      Strong attention to detail

•      Strong business partnering skills, needs ability to influence without authority

•      Very strong technical finance skills (Excel mastery is expected; experience working with PowerPivot, macros, SQL a strong plus)

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Finance and Administration Officer, SSN II

Adeso is an expanding and vibrant African based international development and humanitarian organization. At Adeso, we work with African communities who are yet to realize their full potential; working inside these communities to create environments in which Africans can thrive. Our belief that economic, social and environmental security is the bedrock of a healthy community drives the nature and intent of our programming. We work to prevent and overcome situations that adversely affect community well-being by: reinvigorating the economy, developing skills for life and work, providing humanitarian aid, and influencing policy.For the past 20 years we have strengthened rural livelihoods through environmental awareness, training, technology transfer and innovative humanitarian projects in pursuit of a peaceful, self-reliant, and greener future. Currently, Adeso has programs in Somalia, Kenya and South Sudan.Adeso is an exciting and dynamic organization experiencing managed rapid growth. It offers sound employment conditions with opportunities for personal growth and development.The Finance and Administration Officer will provide Financial and Administration support to Adeso’s programmes in Sanaag. Based in Badhan, the staff will be a full-time member of the Adeso program support team, playing a crucial role in providing support for the team. The position holder will principally work with the program team on day to day basis under the direct supervision of program Manager but with technical working relation with the Finance team in Nairobi. FAO responsible for all aspects of supporting the team about financial management, ensuring compliance with Adeso’s internal policies and procedures as well as donor regulations.Provide accounting support to the project and management team.Make payments as per the approved budget.Responsible for the overall supervision of the administrative management of staff, office and the guest house.SPECIFIC ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:· Provide accounting support to the project and management team while ensuring compliance with internal controls, donor regulations and budget restrictions;· Record accounting transactions including coding of payment vouchers before making payments and ensure an efficient, proper and transparent financial filing system of all documents (e.g. monthly payment of bills, contracts, rent and local salaries)related to finance are maintained;· Prepare and examine accounting records, financial statements and other financial reports and ensure accuracy, completeness and conformance to reporting and procedural standards;· Plan for cash flow requirements for the project and submit updated cash forecast and monthly cash requests to the project accountant on a timely basis;· Process and make payments as provided in the approved budget;· Ensure timely recovery of all advances including travel and mid-month advances and provide monthly update of any outstanding advances to the finance officer;· Assist with facilitation of internal and external audit procedures as required.Responsible for the overall administrative management of office and Guest house.Supervision of the support and all other administrative staff.Ensure that staffs are fully cognizant and understands all HR policies and procedures in areas of responsibility (e.g. Finance, Human Resources, procurements etc.).Handle complaints and grievances from the staff on issues of administrative natureBrief every newcomer to the compound about the security rules and about the context.Organize the sharing of information with the teamHelp in organizing Recruitment process like the Interviews of candidates.To ensure staff going for leave follow procedures and that absenteeism is dealt with according to policy and immediately reported to the Human Resource manager.Ensure timely submission of timesheet and confirm accuracy of all timesheets before submit to the Human Resource manager.· University degree of Business Administration supplemented by professional courses in Finance/Accounting or any other related field.· Two years of progressively responsible work experience at professional level in finance and office administration.· Good writing and communication skills with supervisory ability.· Ability to establish harmonious working relations in an international and multicultural environment.· Must have good level of spoken and written Somali language.· Good level of spoken and written English.· Analytical skills and negotiating skills.· Willingness to travel to remote field locations.· Ability to work independently and work collaboratively as part of a team in a challenging and a highly fluid environment.· Demonstrated attentions to detail, ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines and cooperatively with team members are required.· Basic knowledge in computer applications such as word processing, spreadsheets and power point.· Ability to live and work in an isolated area in conditions of limited comfort.· High degree of cultural sensitivity.· Knowledge of English language and the local working language of the duty station is a requirement.This is a challenging opportunity for a dedicated and highly motivated professional. If you would like to join this dynamic team, please submit your application to jobs.Somalia@adesoafrica.org, quoting the position in the email subject matter, by30th September, 2014.Each application should be addressed to the Regional Human Resources Manager and include the following:· An application letter which should include cover letter, remuneration requirements and contact information for three work-related referees.Applications not including all of the above information will not be reviewed. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.Adeso is an equal opportunity employer and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Finance Manager, Senior

Come join the Information Technology Finance Team as a Senior Finance Manager supporting MS IT business portfolios that drive technology solutions and success across Microsoft.  

As a finance leader you will partner across multiple teams to effectively manage and guide their financial portfolio spending. Your MSIT partners will include the User Experience Services teams.   To be successful with partners and portfolio leads, the role requires a mix of strong analytical, business process excellence and reporting skills to provide appropriate business insight and guide financial execution. In addition, the successful candidate will have the ability and confidence to work across teams, understand and communicate complex concepts, bring business insights, drive change in a technology environment and influence results.  

As the financial leader of your portfolio the core responsibilities will include:  

•      Drive annual planning process, target setting, project costing, budgeting, quarterly forecasting, mid-year review, bi-annual business reviews etc.  

•      Provide leadership to the business with respect to financial management, resource prioritization and allocation.  

•      Drive analytical and conceptual thinking with the business that extends beyond the numbers into strategy.  

•      Ability to ‘tell the story’ and drive insightful analytics and financial reviews with IT and Finance leadership  

•      Ensure technology investments are aligned to key priorities and recommend opportunities to re-allocate and re-deploy resources.    

•      Actively communicate across multiple (and disparate) teams to ensure successful end to end understanding of portfolios, processes and planning  

Experience Required:  

•      7+ years of financial analysis and financial accounting experience, preferably in a high tech company.    

•      Strong PC skills (excellent Excel skills required, Power BI and Database skills preferred).  

•      Knowledge of Microsoft tools a plus.      

•      Demonstrated experience in developing complex financial models; excellent quantitative analysis and forecasting skills  

•      Strong communication & presentation skills.

•      Can easily present complex financial issues to non-finance executives.  

•      Strong interpersonal and cross group collaboration skills.  

•      Ability to drive simplicity within a complex and matrix environment  

•      Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting.  

•      Advanced degree/certification such as MBA/CPA a strong plus

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.

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Oracle - Product Consultant- Finance Functional @ Atlanta, GA, USA

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Job Title: Oracle - Product Consultant- Finance Functional
Job Type : Full Time/Contract
Job location : Atlanta, GA, USA

Job Description:

Mandatory Technical Skills:

Oracle Functional Knowledge on AP, AR, FA, CM & GL modules.

Desirable Technical Skills:

Oracle Techno-functional knowledge on the CEMLI

Mandatory Functional Skills:

Oracle Functional Knowledge on AP, AR, FA, CM & GL modules.

Requirement Gatherring
Fit-Gap Analysis
Application Design
System Configuration
Conduct CRP,SIT, UAT
Design Documentation
Transition to Technical

Total Experience Required:

8-10 years

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Corporate Finance - US Compliance Lead - Senior Manager

Hiring Company Industry: Business Intelligence Number of Employees: 1 - 100 Employees You will be redirected to TheLadders.com

Job Description

Organization:   Enterprise Finance
Location: Chicago
Level: Senior Manager
 

Our Enterprise workforce is the engine that powers Accenture, enabling us to provide the capabilities and expertise that clients demand to help them become high-performance businesses.  As our internal workforce, they continually build shareholder value by: efficiently managing and supporting all activities across our business, protecting the assets and reputation of Accenture, ensuring that we have the people and technology needed to execute our business strategy, developing and increasing awareness of our brand, and providing a range of skills to support our client teams, outsourcing units and other businesses.
The people in our Enterprise workforce play a leading role in our strategic and operational programs, acting as the agents of change within Accenture itself.  They work in a wide range of functional areas including: human resources, marketing and communications, finance, legal, IT, facilities and services, research, business operations and sales development, and must continually evolve to meet the ever-changing demands of the marketplace to achieve higher performance both for ourselves and our clients. 
In todays marketplace, sound financial management is the foundation for a successful business.  At Accenture, we would not be able to increase our growth and success as a large public company without financial integrity.  In all our Finance workgroups we look for individuals with strong financial management, analytic and strategic skills, but its not just about accounting and accounting principles.  Our people are first-class program and project managers, who understand teamwork and communicate well with people at all levels.
Role Description:

The US Compliance Lead Senior Manager will be responsible for managing all US federal, state, and local income tax compliance, including full cycle from provision through true-up; as well as special projects as needed to identify and mitigate tax exposures and capitalize on opportunities.
Ongoing responsibilities include:

Ensure the efficient, accurate, and timely completion of all federal and state income tax returns.

Manage the day-to-day relationship with our compliance outsource provider.

Manage all Schedule M-1 calculations and use prior federal tax compliance experience to do value-added reviews of processes to determine taxable income.

Forecast future year taxable income for purposes of GAAP reporting, estimated tax payments, and tax cash flow forecasting.

Develop internal relationships with other financial or operational groups to improve our ability to obtain data needed to accurately forecast taxable income.

Direct the year-end and quarterly GAAP income tax reporting process for the US.

Ensure the accurate GAAP reporting of all US income tax accounts, through processes such as monthly taxes payable account reconciliations.

Perform research of federal income tax issues.

Work with the US tax planning team to ensure planning ideas are accurately reported in the federal income tax returns.

Analyze financial models to determine the impact of tax planning ideas on income taxes payable.

Ensure all federal tax return files are fully documented and audit ready.

Assist in responding to federal and state tax auditor requests.

Supervise the US compliance group staff, including career development and other personnel issues.

Manage the responses to all notices and correspondence from US income tax agencies.

Ensure efficient tax cash flow management; maintain relationship with the Service Center and Treasury to manage cash payment/check request process.

Prepare and plan for audits, including reviewing compliance workpapers.

Develop and implement process and procedures in anticipation of audits.

Advise on current IRS Initiatives.

Monitor compliance with record retention requirements.

Set up and maintain US reserves, including advising on audit issues and tracking likely outcome and settlement potential.

Monitor Statute of Limitations issues, including maintenance of comprehensive forecast of statute closings.

Interact with governmental taxing authorities.

Monitor and maintain policies related to privilege in the planning and compliance process.

Special projects, as applicable.

Basic Qualifications 

10+ years of US Federal tax compliance experience in one or a combination of "Big 4" firms, multinational company or professional services firm environment. 

Experience in the management of all income tax compliance requirements. 

Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance

 Preferred Skills Requirements

Self-starter with the ability and confidence to work well in an unstructured, dynamic environment                                                                                                                                                                          

Team player; collaborative with peers and has led/mentored a team

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Strong organizational and leadership skills

Ability to master complex functions and simultaneously execute multiple projects

Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).
Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.>

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JDEdwards finance business analyst - Lead

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My Profile AccountManage your career through our interactive dashboard.My Jobs by Email AlertsReceive the latest matching jobs immediately to your inbox.The Lead Finance Business Analyst Serves as single point-of-contact for end users for specific module(s), functional and/or business area(s). Understands the business function and works with team to define business requirements. Communicates and coordinates with other Business Analysts, business leadership and IT leadership to ensure appropriate integration of processes and modules. Supports Business community in their use of the JDE financial modules.

Perform problem identification & resolution for issues related to specific module(s), functional and business area(s). Provide training to prevent problem reoccurrence and knowledge transfer. Escalate issues to management when appropriate.

Collect, analyze, review, document and communicate business needs and requirements to IT. Translate high level business requirements into functional specifications and manage changes to such specifications.

Serve as module expert during implementations of ERP software. Perform module configuration and testing following control guidelines

Contribute to the overall planning and execution of projects and issue resolution including the development of approaches, identifying resources, and developing time lines.

Mentoring and educating other staff members

Involved in security/authorization set-up, user documentation, data interface design, data migration and reconciliation

Assist IT management and end-users to determine feasibility of potential systems projects

Perform special duties/functions which might be assigned by manager

Job Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related finance area required.

6 - 8 years of experience in business area and 4 - 6 years supporting business applications within IT organization required.

Must possess an understanding of the business function(s)/process(s) supported.

Excellent knowledge of systems project work and business functionality in ERP applications required.

General Ledger, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable are required

Fixed Assets, Cost Accounting and Multi-Currency are a must

Job Cost knowledge is preferred

Financial system support is mandatory, experience utilizing JDE is required.

Working knowledge of systems project work.

CPA preferred

Familiarity with other JDE modules is preferred

Experience using MS Office.

Possesses leadership skills

Work under general direction

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Proven ability to work in a successful team environment

Excellent interpersonal skills

Good project management skills

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Finance Intern

*Pursuing a degree in business, preferably accounting or finance
*Strong proficiency in MS Excel and working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite - especially Access
*Knowledge of data mining techniques
*Good interpersonal skills
Internships and co-ops just dont get any better than this. At Verizon Wireless, youll experience the challenge, excitement and reward of working for the most reliable wireless voice and data network in the world. Youll work with the latest technologies, learn from the best minds in the industry and have a unique opportunity to use your knowledge and skills in an environment dedicated to maintaining global network superiority. When you start here, you can take your career in any direction - and go as far as your talent and ambition will take you.

The Finance Internship Program provides the opportunity for interns to apply finance and accounting skills, enhance business acumen and accelerate their professional career in an outstanding Fortune 50 company.

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Finance Intern

*Pursuing a degree in business, preferably accounting or finance
*Strong proficiency in MS Excel and working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite - especially Access
*Knowledge of data mining techniques
*Good interpersonal skills
Internships and co-ops just dont get any better than this. At Verizon Wireless, youll experience the challenge, excitement and reward of working for the most reliable wireless voice and data network in the world. Youll work with the latest technologies, learn from the best minds in the industry and have a unique opportunity to use your knowledge and skills in an environment dedicated to maintaining global network superiority. When you start here, you can take your career in any direction - and go as far as your talent and ambition will take you.

The Finance Internship Program provides the opportunity for interns to apply finance and accounting skills, enhance business acumen and accelerate their professional career in an outstanding Fortune 50 company.

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Finance Director - New York Congressional Campaign - United States

New York Congressional Campaign Seeks Finance Director Immediately
One of the most competitive Congressional races in the country, a DCCC Emerging District, rated as a toss-up by every major congressional handicapper, is looking for a Finance Director to add to its team of expert staff, operatives andfinancepersonnel. You will be on the front lines of taking back the Housemajority in Congress this election cycle.
The ideal applicant for this position has excellent and provencommunicationskills, ...
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Finance Manager, Sr. - US M&O Job (Bellevue, WA, US)

Job Category: Finance
Location: Bellevue, WA, US
Job ID: 786952-75762
Division: Finance

The US M&O Finance team is looking for a highly motivated individual with a passion for understanding Microsoft’s revenue trends and for driving key revenue analysis, insights and processes for the United States subsidiary. This role will provide a deep understanding of Revenue across all SubSegments, Products and Pricing Levels at Microsoft US and will give the opportunity to drive business insight for senior executives in the US Subsidiary.

Role Summary:

Revenue Rhythms: (Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly Revenue Reviews, Weekly Forecast, communication with WW SMSG)

Business Impact (ad-hoc analysis on topics, such as renewals, expirations, Cloud impacts, other business drivers).

Key Responsibilities:

Drive the Revenue rhythms for the US Subsidiary, including weekly Revenue Reviews with the US Senior Leadership team, Monthly Financial reviews and Quarterly Business Reviews.

Work with the US Sub Business Groups (BGs: WWLD, MOD, STB, etc), and Segment finance Leads (EPG, PS, SMS&P, CCG) to ensure accurate financial understanding of the respective businesses.

Manage and be responsible for multiple processes, resolve cross-group misalignment, with a focus on constant process improvements.

Manage relationship with WW SMSG Finance through providing insight around US Subsidiary revenue performance.

Support MSNA President’s Office and CFO on revenue analytical needs.

Coordinate the completion of the Revenue Finance slides for the US MYR deck.

Lead US Sub cross-segment revenue business insight and analytical project.

Formulate financial conclusions and influence decision outcomes based on objective analysis.

SMSG: FIN

Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue
Job Segments: Finance, Financial, Management, Manager

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