Microsoft Senior Financial Analyst Cloud Solutions Area 

Switzerland, Zurich, Zurich 

1173019

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 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 experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field
• OR equivalent experience
• Advanced level Excel skills
• Fluent in English

Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• Experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles
• Good compliance understanding / experience for the deal structuring and execution.
• Cloud expertise, deal structuring knowledge

ROB Accountability and Forecast Accuracy:

• Responsible for ROB accountability and driving forecast accuracy for our products.
• This includes providing executive insights on deviations from forecasts based on drivers, trends, or deal-based performance.

Drive Growth and Increase Share:

• Lead efforts to drive performance by providing insights and opportunities modelling.
• Mainstream and evangelize whitespace models, and recommend actions based on competitive market insights to drive end-to-end upsell execution.
• Provide actionable insights supporting pipeline generation, leading to growth and increased market share.

Go to Market:

• Advocate for our products. Partner with our Business Group leads to drive multiple initiatives aimed at accelerating growth.
• This includes long-range planning, investment strategy, resilient customer adds, sales play targeting, cloud economics deep modelling, and more.
• Support the business with usable analytics and customer engagement, including TCO analytics.
• Understand competitive market insights for our products and provide thought leadership around new business opportunities and growth roadmap landscape.

Product Technical Expertise:

• Serve as the go-to person on any technical topic pertaining to our products for the Finance organization within the Area.
• This may include periodic training on newer topics and initiatives.

Productivity Insights and Resource Optimization:

• Drive productivity insights for our resources through engagement with the business.
• Look at correct coverage ratios by role and segment, and provide insights into velocity and capacity through milestone ownership across success engagements.

Compliance:

• Drives the right tone from executive leadership and ensures strict adherence and understanding of Microsoft policies on risk and compliance.
• Influences leadership to ensure compliance is a top priority and modelled throughout the organization.
• Advocates, educates, and promotes best practices and new developments.
• Encourages asking questions and identifying risks to compliance.
• Champions Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards.