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 fieldOR 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 fieldOR equivalent experience
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 experienceOR 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 experienceOR 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
Responsibilities
Partnership:
They lead the financial ROB for the Enterprise business including forecast and budget.
They work with business partners to translate top-down targets to an accountable budget and to generate operational plans within their organization.
They are the finance front-end specialist for deal insights and deal construct, ensuring Deal Win Room and deal-based investment requests are high quality.
They build strong, trusted relationships with all key business stakeholders (EC Leads, Sales Excellence) to ensure Enterprise Commercial delivers on its finance and business accountabilities.
They partner with Licensing/Business Desk teams to optimize deal structuring and drive close plans.
They conduct industry analytics and customer propensity analysis and share with key stakeholders to assess market opportunities and threats and make recommendations necessary to support strategy execution.
They collaborate with Customer Solutions controller to drive conversations around Consumption and customer adds.
Provides oversight EA Renewals to assure desired/targeted renewal rates.
Actively engage with customer BDMs for key /strategic accounts providing sponsorship and supporting TCO conversations.
Prioritisation:
They are able to design new approaches to how financial data is collected and evaluated to impact the broader organization and Microsoft's long-term goals.
They own Forecasting, building on Deal Based Forecast and trend analysis and understand the interconnections between data, information, and results and translate this into forward-looking narratives and forecasts.
They identify and leverage advanced tools and technology.
Protect:
Drive compliance in the Segment with focus on Sales Deal Execution and Proactive Risk Management
They drive the right tone on driving compliance business and ensure strict adherence and understanding of Microsoft policies.