Job Description

As a company, Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We empower our own people to achieve more and make a difference in the world. Join us and lead transformational impact with our top customers.

The Account Director for Finacial Services at Microsoft serves as the face of Microsoft leading our most valued customers into the digital age. This role is vital to Microsoft's competitive ambitions. Traditional sales engagement methods have evolved and customers are seeking consultative partnerships, not vendor, customer relationships.

Armed with world class cloud solutions, your role is to unlock the potential of enterprise customers by demonstrating clear business value accelerating their digital transition and success. High level customer satisfaction is a key measure, as are revenue/consumption targets.

The most successful Client Executives are ultra-resourceful, master orchestrators of virtual teams, and exceptionally curious to listen and learn from their customers. These attributes allow them to advise confidently and elevate their customer's business.

This role offers incredible opportunity to accelerate your career by driving business impact that can change the future. Be a part of a transformative, learning culture that drives innovation. It has never been a better time join Microsoft and see up close the digital revolution.

Sales Leadership

Plan and present clear vision of customer success

• Build and own holistic customer plan detailing critical insights and new business opportunities in Financial Services. Critical that plan is made to evolve and continually vetted ensuring stated objectives. Strive for bold ambition and challenge convention.
• Build coalition of support at C-level both inside Microsoft and with customer. Define digital success and path to attain.
• Develop and lead team centric approach with extended teams. Direct clear opportunity ownership among virtual account team.
• Increase technical and industry acumen delivering innovative ideas to accelerate customer success in the cloud.

Orchestration and Execution

Laser focus on business outcomes that propel customer satisfaction

• Consistent, repeatable achievement of revenue and consumption targets through disciplined pipeline, forecast management.
• Leverage and usage of key business insights to elevate customer conversation and action.
• World class customer service through alignment of customer objectives and plan to achieve.

Deliver tangible solutions to customers solving for greater efficiencies, cost savings, and deep regard for Microsoft partnership.

• Strong growth mindset. Seeks to solve for difficult customer challenges. Experienced in partnering Financial Services industry customers on their transformation journeys
• Proven ability to lead, build trust and be highly credible across the full spectrum of Financial Services, including but not limited to, Banking, Insurance, Wealth Management, Capital Markets etc would be an added advantage.
• A strong sales and business background, with 10-15+ years of technology-related experience, expertises in the SaaS and PaaS/IaaS areas is necessary.
• Knowledge within all the above Industries and ability to make confident recommendations at C-level, business decision makers.
• A Bachelor's degree with exposure to Information Technology (or equivalent) is required; MBA is preferred

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. 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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