Microsoft Controller - Centralized Surface Planning 

United States, Washington 

123592486

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field
  • OR Master'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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 12+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.
• 3+ years work experience in matrix-based organization.
• 3+ years work experience in the technology or software industry.
• Prior Hardware experience and / or CSO experience is highly desirable.
• Mastery of complex analytics & modelling and ability to distill critical insights & decision points.
• process management acumen – able to synthesize & simplify multiple deliverables into concise logical workflows.
• communication and interpersonal skills with fluency in English
• Willingness to work international hours and ability to thrive in virtual and global team set-up.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 24, 2025.

People

• Delivers Results through Teamwork: Work across communities and teams to continually evolve our Surface Consumer planning framework to better meet their needs.
• Leverage the work of others: Proactively seek to understand how the best practices in the Gaming Hardware planning space can be applied to Surface Consumer. Work with Gaming Planning controller to solve common problems in consistent ways.
• Role modelling our values: Be a role model for our Microsoft values and ethical behaviors. Appreciate the cultural nuances and richness of working in a global role. Seek diversity of opinion and contribute to an inclusive environment in all interactions.

Prioritize

• Continue to evolve the Surface Consumer Planning Framework to deliver on the Centralized Planning value proposition – Increase accuracy where it matters, Reduce detail where it doesn’t, Give time back to Category and Regional Teams
• Maintain, develop & evolve the Planning Framework – continue to evolve our standardized driver-based model so it maintains pace with the evolution of the business and stakeholder needs. Use it to drive a common and quantified understanding of the factors impacting our Surface plans. Continually anticipate “what is coming next?” and build in agility by design to respond to changing requirements / business priorities.
• Build connective tissue with related planning processes - collaborate with EG Finance to build on their planning models and to evolve our respective frameworks in tandem. Understand and connect to Supply Chain operations / Demand planning process and PC Market analytics and put in place the collaboration rhythms to ensure all these forward-looking processes in synch.
• Sustainable and Scalable: Scalable: Recognize the nuances in focus areas by Region and identify how the core modelling framework can be adapted accordingly. Sustainable: Leverage our solutions partners to independently manage the regular roll-over, refresh, recon activities of this business-critical infrastructure. Consider how machine learning and AI can be applied to improve accuracy & stability.
• Deliver informed Revenue Adjustment(Rev Adj) planning. Work with EG and Category teams to ensure a clear and common understanding of our Margin optimization and Rev Adj programs across regions. Model rev adj requirements in tandem with Revenue & Volumes and ensure Regional recipients are clear on underlying assumptions and flexibility therein.

Partnership

• Be a thought-leader for your Surface Consumer Leadership team and EG partners.
• Understand the interconnected Surface / Personal Computer (PC) business – partner with Windows teams to understand the full breadth of the PC market, including impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) PCs, revised configurations, etc. and the implications for Surface Consumer. Reflect this in our modelling frameworks.
• Trusted advisor providing independent risk / opportunities assessments: Help Devices and Creativity (DC) Leadership team and the EG Teams have a common understanding of the Surface targets from a CSO perspective. Provide independent driver-based risk / opportunity assessments covering both revenue and margin which drive productive discussions with all stakeholders and focus attention on most impactful areas. Take a strategic role as you work closely with category and EG on preparing new launches and validating long range assumptions.
• Nurture Field Insights: Work with WW Category to build effective Regional listening mechanisms which EG and DC Leadership leverage to create appropriately plans for our business and proactively address concern areas. Incorporate Direct Sales in these mechanisms.
• Seamless partnership with the WW Category team and Category Controller: Embrace the reality that the dynamic nature of the Surface Consumer business means performance and planning discussions sometimes merge and act as one team be proactively keeping each other informed.

Protect

• Be informed: Complete all required training in a timely manner.
• Be alert to elements of targets setting or forecasting which could increase the risk of incompliant behaviors and proactively voice those concerns. If in doubt, ask.
• Be secure: Prevent confidential product roadmap details with utmost confidentiality.
• Accuracy: Planning accuracy is proven out in controllable variances of < 2%.
• Connectivity: EG and CSO finance are working as one team with complimentary planning approaches. No disconnects with related planning processes – EG, Retail Partner planning, Supply Chain, Product roadmap, Console Market intelligence.
• Scalability: Regional and Category feedback indicate continuous satisfaction with planning process stability and time back.
• Sustainability: FD&E and RAS utilized to full capacity in supporting Surface planning infrastructure.

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