Job Description

Microsoft Consumer Sales Organization (CSO) works across all Microsoft products and services sold to Consumers, from Xbox to Surface, Office and Windows. CSO is made up of two Customer Solution Areas (CSA), being Xbox and Devices & Creativity (DC). This role is part of the DC CSA.

The CSO Finance team partners with internal and external customers alike with the goal of maximizing revenue, market share, and mutual profit with our partners and ensuring the highest ethics and compliance in any action.

The Finance Manager, Windows & Office role is an excellent opportunity to be at the heart of a dynamic business in our region. Partnering with the Category Leads for the territories, it seeks to manage and review the financial performance of the business, identify and critically assess investment opportunities and help shape the landing strategy across regions. Within Asia, there are 4 territories: ANZ, Japan, SKI (South East Asia, Korea, India) and Greater China. This role is focused on SKI and GCR. This role is expected to drive growth, transformation and strategic initiatives across Asia, in addition to deep, insightful analysis about the market, partners, trending and risks and opportunities as well as overseeing the P&L.

Microsoft\xe2\x80\x99s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities:

Business Partnership & Management

• Be able to work effectively in a matrix organization \xe2\x80\x93 understanding and fostering interactions between the Asia Region, Territories, and Corporate HQ teams.
• Maximize impact by establishing great partnership and trusted advisor status with the Windows and Office Category team and Asia Regional Teams across CSO, contributing to the progress and direction of the business.
• Drive clarity and insights on the business drivers and the levers available to influence - proactively flagging upsides, risks, actions needed and managing the overall investments and P&L.
• Help institute balanced decision making, driving the business to identify both risk and opportunity. Provide strong stewardship of the business by acting as the conscience of the company and approaches problems with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Able to simplify the complex and inspire through storytelling and excellent communication skills.
• Champion a strong culture of compliance \xe2\x80\x93 be knowledgeable on all relevant policies, ensuring solid, robust processes exist to support policy requirements. Leverage analytics to identify risks and treat audits as a learning opportunity.
• Contribute to a Windows and Office controller community across Asia and worldwide, driving key processes through that community, learning and sharing continually.

Drive Finance & Business Excellence

• Support effective and efficient processes (P&L Close, Forecast, Budget) for Windows and Office, ensuring timely analysis of results, accurate forecast and targets aligned with local market dynamics and overall company growth objectives.
• Drive accountability and learnings by systematically analyzing results, ensuring 100% compliance in how funds are spent. Ensure teams are aware of and follow corporate policies and compliance needs related to P&L activities.
• Manage the CSO Office P&L to budget or better, with a clear focus on ROI and investment insights
• Drive the utilization of standard reporting and processes to minimize the use of local tools. Identify areas for further simplification / centralization that addresses both finance and business needs.
• Coordinate with Corp HQ on worldwide projects and influence process improvements.
• Proven ability to look beyond the numbers. Effective at cultivating diverse data outlets and connecting the information into a cohesive qualitative story. Ability to objectively formulate opinions and defend viewpoints with business partners.

Drive Growth and Transformation

• Partner with the Office team to understand key drivers and levers available to influence performance and drive growth. Challenge the team to identify investment opportunities, with consideration of short-term and LTV perspectives.
• Be a catalyst for growth - own the key growth plan modeling, share insights with the Sub Region and Regional CCSM Management team - work with consistent growth frameworks and gather feedback to continually improve them
• Be a deep expert on the business - understand the business strategy and the transformational change being driven and connect that with the investment portfolio and how it might be leveraged, shifted to meet changing needs.
• Anticipate what future change may mean for the business in terms of TAM opportunity, channel dynamics, margin and rebate structure, etc. and proactively engage the right teams to explore & address.

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor\'s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years of post-graduate Financial Analysis, Controllership or Finance work experience.

• OR Master\'s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years of post-graduate Financial Analysis, Controllership or Finance work experience.
• OR equivalent experience.
• Skilled in financial planning and analysis including developing financial models, reporting, analysis, forecasting, and planning.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Strong collaboration, interpersonal, and communication skills with proven ability to partner, build trust, communicate with and influence key stakeholders to a common goal, including Senior Management.
• Demonstrated experience in problem solving and project management with proven ability to manage multiple projects and competing tasks/priorities to closure.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and able to make decisions leveraging open-ended data.
• Excellent Excel and Office skills.
• Regional exposure to Asia, ability to understand and navigate the nuances of the different markets and cultures.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the .

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