Job Description

You will have oversight of the end-to-end Annual Financial Statements process for our datacenter entities, collaborating closely with key stakeholders to drive a best-in-class process.

• Oversight of end-to-end Annual Financial Statements process supporting compliant on-time filings for datacenter entities
• Responsible for ensuring new datacenter entities are on boarded into central support model (through out-sourced provider) appropriately in partnership with key stakeholders.
• Partnering with key business personnel to ensure statutory processes and controls for onboarding new datacenters are designed and operating effectively. Your partners include Corporate teams (Accounting, Treasury and Legal) as well as from the datacenter business (MSIO) and other statutory finance professionals.
• Full oversight of out-sourced provider’s central team and processes for datacenter entities and ensures adherence to global standard processes where applicable.
• Review performance of out-sourced provider to ensure quality service and continuous process improvement.
• Escalation point for local Stat & Tax controllers for entities in this scope and supporting issue resolution for this process.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong working knowledge of IFRS and U.S. GAAP;
• Ability to work effectively in matrixes-based organization.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to create clarity, generate energy, and deliver results;
• Strong cross-organizational collaboration skills;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to work in a global and diverse business environment;
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting/Finance, or related field AND 4+ years accounting or finance experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business, Accounting/Finance, or related field AND 3+ years accounting or finance experience.
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting/Finance, or related field AND 7+ years of accounting or finance experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business, Accounting/Finance, or related field AND 6+ years accounting or finance experience.
• Professional accounting certification such as Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or equivalent.