Microsoft Finance Director – Americas Devices & Creativity Retail Sales 

United States, Washington 

352066657

We:
• Land the company vision around the transformation of our business from standalone devices to a connected world with an Intelligent Edge and Intelligent Cloud.
• Drive strategic resource allocation and investments through local insights, ensuring optimal returns aligned with our worldwide strategy.
• Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of top performing teams while providing diverse career opportunities.

• Managing the Americas Finance team and building Worldwide (WW) communities.
• Help accelerate and drive long term growth planning across M365, Surface and Windows while leading the operationalization of the same.
• Building channel analytics and insights to drive business outcomes.
• Driving granularity of growth including resource optimization.
• Driving cross-group collaboration across different business groups to maximize revenue and profitability through understanding our customer needs, products, and market opportunities.
• Leading Bi-Weekly Sales Reviews & Forecasting process for the WW Sales team.
• Driving digital transformation with customers, partners, and consumers.

Required / Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 10+ 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 8+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with a multinational company with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles is preferred
  MBA/Advanced degree in Finance or Economics, or CPA/CA preferred
• Proven leadership skills

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Attracting & developing talent: Assess talent needs for today and for the future; attract and develop diverse team members with the right skills and capabilities.
• Delivering Results through Teamwork: Work through others and across teams, aligning people and resources, establishing high standards of performance, and creating a climate of mutual accountability that delivers expected business results.
• Role modelling our values: Be a role model for the behaviors and standards expected by creating a culture where talent can excel, and diversity of backgrounds and experiences is present and valued.

• Deliver forecast accuracy
• Proactively identify trends and keep the pulse of the business through weekly sales processes.
• Identify risk and opportunities and work with Category Lead, Field, and BG to drive mitigation plans.
• Enable the right commercial decisions to be made across promotions, incentives and marketing spend.
• Lead the revenue forecasting process working with Corporate/Regional/BG teams.

• Lead the growth planning and operationalizing process for Finance
• Continue to strengthen agility in our operational discipline, continually aligning spend to achieve best ROI and strategic opportunities.
• Influencing resource prioritization to drive growth in the business models of the future
• Drive channel partner analytics and insights in our business to influence future outcomes and decisions.
• Be actively engaged to tell our story and drive digital transformation.

• • Proactive risk management
• Maintaining a compliance framework
• Supporting investments in line with expected ROI
• Business Partner feedback

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