Microsoft Country Finance Lead 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

470968476

In MCAPS Finance, we’re driving shareholder value in 54 subsidiaries & 120 Sales Locations and carry the local accountability for the financials as well as statutory and compliance matters across all Microsoft commercial segments and products. We:

• Land the company vision around the transformation of our business and customer orientation in the subsidiaries and externally.
• Drive strategic resource allocation and investments through local insights, ensuring optimal returns aligned with our worldwide strategy. Key focus is on New Business and consumption with an industry and workload perspective.
• Build trust to lay the foundation of long-term growth from a customer and shareholder point of view in a compliant way.
• Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of high performing impactful teams while providing diverse career opportunities.

The Asean Finance team partners closely with the sales & marketing teams to identify growth opportunities, accelerate revenue, optimize resources allocation, nurture a strong compliance culture, and deliver upon statutory & tax local requirements.

You will partner closely to execute on their strategy/growth agenda, nurture a culture of compliance and drive the operational rigor across the sub-region. You are also the “de-facto” SMC Finance lead for Indonesia.

Culture & Behavior

• You have a growth mindset. You have a desire to continuously learn and innovate, and you also support others to do the same.
• You cultivate Microsoft’s culture of Respect, Integrity, and Accountability in everything you do.
• You fully embrace Microsoft’s leadership principles of Creating Clarity, Generating Energy & Delivering Success.
• You nurture a collaborative & diverse culture. You respect and appreciate individuals with different backgrounds and ensure that all voices are heard.
• You are action-oriented and able to build and deliver strong results through others.

Required 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
• Previous business partnership roles in subsidiaries/areas is a differentiator.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in finance positions.
• Ability to operate and thrive in a fluid/uncertain environment with an ability to influence, establish credibility, trust, and partnership at all levels of the organization.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to details.
• Fluency in English

The Country Finance Lead is the Finance Partner to the

Your core responsibilities are focused around our four key pillars:

People:

• Foster a Microsoft Company owner mindset. Develop your own capabilities to bring deeper internal and external awareness of customers, competitors and industries.
• Maximise the potential of our finance organization by working effectively beyond reporting lines and geographies.
• Be the functional lead of country dedicated finance resources, whilst enabling the success of the business insight hub supporting the local business.

Prioritisation:

• Drive longer term planning, set strategies and align to resource allocation for maximum return & long term growth in the local market aligned to propensity models and targeted share gains.
• Continually monitor resource allocation and ROI and make adjustments as required to maximise returns.
• Ensure revenue accountabilities and controllable costs are met on a quarterly basis and deliver performance goals across the key solution areas.
• Simplify & reduce time spent on internal rhythm of the business.
• Drive strong opex execution on the ground (e.g. ECIF)

Partnership:

• Leverage deep actionable insights to drive topline revenue, customer adds, and consumption growth, by industry based on propensity modelling.
• Special focus on accelerating Azure advanced workload consumption (ADS).
• Engage externally directly with BDMs and Partners around Digital Transformation, and connect MS solutions to customer priorities within different industries to help land customer wins.
• Drive programatic collaboration with key functions to support deal constructs. Focus on customer aquisition, retention, and lifetime value.

Protect:

• Compliance leadership & tone, monitor and support management’s responsibility to mitigate risk with special focus on preventing corruption, unethical sales, spend management, privacy and concession & discounts.
• Accountable for Statutory, Tax and regulatory compliance for Microsoft Indonesia entities.

Following are the key indicators of success for this role.

• Strong & open partnership with ASEAN and Asia HQ teams (Finance, Business)
• Leverage insights from area/region and drive strong execution in all Asean markets.
• Coach and mentor finance peers and country sales team members
• Strong culture of compliance in every geo, including S&T requirements.
• Collaborate to others’ success beyond ASEAN