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Microsoft’s Finance vision is focused on how business partnership leads to outcomes and how we drive impact.  We do this through our core values - People, Prioritization, Partnership and Protect. 

Microsoft maintains a global tax and trade planning and compliance strategy that is administered and coordinated at the Microsoft Corporate level, as part of Corporate Finance and Administration, under the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company.  This set-up assures proper coordination and implementation of appropriate policies and procedures.

The Transfer Pricing team within tax is responsible for tax research, planning, compliance and audits relating to transactions between legal entities within Microsoft.

Responsibilities

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Developing applied knowledge of Microsoft’s enterprise-wide financial reporting systems
• Partnering with Operational Transfer Pricing and key stakeholders in controllership and supply chain to proactively identify tax risk and develop new metrics for ensuring compliance with tax laws
• Conducting tax law research and preparing financial models of legal entities by function to recommend intercompany pricing methods
• Ensuring compliance with transfer pricing tax filing requirements in every country Microsoft does business by preparing annual transfer pricing documentation, updating economic benchmarks for both the master and local country files
• Partnering with local country controllers and regional tax teams on OECD BEPS Action 13 compliance, including Country by Country Report notifications and local statutory reporting requirements relating to transfer pricing
• Providing input to legal group on intercompany legal agreements and amendments
• Organizing and updating functional interviews with business units as both an educational and tax risk management opportunity
• Responding to inquiries by government tax authorities (both foreign and domestic)
• Providing analytical support for tax planning and other special projects as needed

Qualifications

Requirements and Qualifications:

The role requires advanced knowledge of domestic and international transfer pricing rules and regulations, including Section 1.482 of the IRC and OECD BEPS action plans

• 4+ years of experience in transfer pricing, preferably with a Big 4 accounting firm or large professional services firm with a broad base of international clients, 
• BA or BS in Finance, Economics, Business with Accounting background/knowledge (CPA and/or an advanced degree such as MBA, JD, or Ph.D. is a plus)
• Proven ability to apply financial, economic and valuation principles to complex financial transactions to assess tax risk and develop recommendations to proactively address transfer pricing issues
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects and maintain a growth mindset in a dynamic environment
• Ability to partner and work collaboratively across teams in a matrix environment
• Working knowledge of US GAAP accounting
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

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