Microsoft EMEA DPS Category & SR Controller 

Germany, Bavaria, Munich 

111805495

As any finance organization in Microsoft, we:

• Land the company vision around the transformation of our business, consumption 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.
• Build trust to lay the foundation of long-term growth from a partner and shareholder point of view in a compliant way.
• Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of top performing teams while providing diverse career opportunities.

• Required/minimum qualifications

  Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or related field AND experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field

  OR

Additional / Preferred qualifications

• Proficiency to communicate in

• Preferred :Advanced Excelskills,PowerBIskills, Track record of leveraging AI

(Subregion DPS Lead, Subregion GoMarket Lead, Sales and Sales Excellence leads)

In addition, the role will play a critical role in driving alignment across Regional DPS Finance Lead and WW DPS Finance rolesstakeholders. In addition, the role must minimize manual work and time spent on reporting thru continuous emphasis on transformation to Standardize Analytics within Regional and adopting WW initiatives/best practices (e.g. Promo Planning, Inventory & SupplyTracking ,Partner Profitability, ROI, Centralized Budgeting, Performance Management Reporting). These will be achieved by leveraging anpartnering across our WW DPS finance, WW CSF

The key responsibilities for the role are articulated below:

• Performance management:Deliverbudget revenue, GM and CM according to quarterly accountability, ensuring due diligence across the team. Deep understanding of business (e.g., market, share, product, channel, customer) for the Subregion/Category/Account to support, drive forecast accuracy and articulate the story behind the numbers as the subject matter expert. Drive alignment between Finance Teams, DPSleadership teams, Subregions, and Sales Excellence around all finance rhythms. ​

• Growth & Transformation:Drive collaboration within organization and contribute toinnovate

• Investment Optimization:Utilization of Rev AdjandOPEXinvestments to maximize revenue & GM outcomes. Develop deeper understanding of investment ROI and profitability, including for key partners with optimal allocation of marketing and external resource OPEX. Manage the P&L tofield operating model

• Finance Operations:Foster collaboration across Finance and Business communities to drive simplification and standardization to establish repeatable, sustainable, processes within/across regions. Createa strongCulture of Compliance by driving structured tone from the top. ​

• Be a trusted advisor for theEMEA and subregionleadership teams by adding

• Provide independent analytics and insights to support growth and target attainment forDPS business across local revenue anddevice activation metrics, all the whileunderstanding business drivers behind performance.

• Driving accountability to Financial Targets and Business Scorecard accountabilities

• Ability to drive impact across different stakeholder groups in a very dynamic space

• Improve the accuracy, timeliness and relevance of reporting and insights

• Be a catalyst for change in the approach to Investment decision making

• to understandthe story behind the numbersand drive clarity of business performance and focus areas of importance, i.e.what is driving changes in business performance, rather than just describing what has happened.

• Embrace simplification and standardization initiatives