Sr. Finance Manager, Collection Manager

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

Global Treasury supports the digital transformation journey of Microsoft’s customers, partners & vendors by providing competitive credit and payment solutions to support revenue growth while managing credit risk. We are a compliance first organization with customer obsession and deal economics focus. We support over $240B in trade receivables annually A key objective of a Collections Manager is to maximize protection of Microsoft’s investments in Accounts Receivable (AR) while acting as a trusted advisor to the business and delivering key decision support, enabling profitable growth and effectively managing the lifecycle of the dollar. The candidate will also be accountable for accelerating cash flow and optimising collections performance. Collections Manager are role champions for customer obsession across the organization, acting as a trusted source of knowledge and ensuring the customer’s voice influences business decisions. The role focuses on building strong relationships, driving adoption of solutions, and resolving escalations effectively.

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

Practice Microsoft’s leadership principles – communicate with clarity, generate positive energy, and deliver results
Invest in learning, AI skill building and career development
Model and foster a collaborative, inclusive, growth mindset culture.
Challenge the status quo, innovate boldly, and learn through the flow of work.
Collections Management – Independently manage collections and cash applications for assigned portfolio providing support, direction and leadership. Utilise AI to drive improvements in collections portfolio to achieve targets. Ensure prudent and necessary business decisions to manage risk and facilitate collections. Address customer payment issues and leverage the Business Engagement team to assist.
Additional responsibilities include project participation and/or leadership on initiatives, including AI projects that are necessary to enable our business processes keep up with significant year-over-year growth.
Empower vendors & suppliers globally and hold them accountable for process adherence and meeting Service Level Agreement commitments. Management of a standard rhythm and engagement with our vendor, support escalations, and Service Level Agreements/Key Performance Indicators management while delivering impact and a great customer experience.
Work with policy owners to drive program improvements and compliance while driving forward change and evolution of business processes to best support Treasury and Microsoft customer needs.
Drive positive customer experience by understanding customer needs, support customer satisfaction initiatives, and address customer and stakeholder queries/escalations.
Partner with teams across Microsoft, both internal and external to Treasury, on projects and initiatives to deliver best in class processes, reporting, Accounts Receivable performance, and a world class customer experience.
Partner with key stakeholders and organisations within Microsoft to accomplish objectives of improved Collections, dispute resolution, risk mitigation, customer satisfaction and decision support.
Business Process Excellence - Leverage Treasury's Business Process Outsourcer (BPO) to achieve agreed performance metrics. This requires the individual to partner with the BPO and BPO Manager to ensure execution and delivery of goals.
Support Audit, Tax, and Trade teams to ensure timely delivery of documentation requests related to Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other compliance requirements.
Ensure strict adherence and understanding of Microsoft policies and hold BPO accountable to the same strict standards
Drive compliance culture through actions and decisions to instill trust and advocate, educate, and promote best practices and new developments
Champion Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards
Ensure strict adherence to and an understanding of Microsoft policies and hold Business Process Outsourcers accountable to the same strict standards.
Drive compliance culture through actions and decisions to instil trust and advocate, educate and promote best practices and new developments.
Champion Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards.