Microsoft Asia MCAPS OPEX Controller GCR & Korea 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

644078576

Required Qualifications (RQs)

• 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
• +4 year(s) experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• +2-3 year(s) work experience in matrix-based organization.
• +2-3 year(s) work experience in the technology or software industry.
• Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountants (CA) or equivalent certification.

Analytical

• Deep analytical and reporting capabilities which include leveraging internal Microsoft tools, reporting cubes, BI tools and other financial systems.
• Passion to solve problems, working at multiple altitudes, from strategic and high-level framing to detailed analysis.

Cross-Group Collaboration

• Leadership skills, proactively driving and delivering high-impact results through both individual and v-team effort.
• Partnering capabilities, influencing others without direct authority and appropriately pushing back when required.
• Ability to influence, establish credibility, trust and partnership at all levels of the organization.
• Presentation of results to senior management on a regular basis.

Project management

• Effectively managing and prioritizing multiple inputs, tasks and stakeholders, sometimes under tight deadlines.
• Comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty, in a business that evolves at a fast pace.

People: The Asia OPEX Controller is an experienced professional within the Asia Finance community and is expected to contribute to the thought leadership of the community.

• In charge of the Area and Regional Management P&L including End Customer Investment Funds (ECIF) and other OPEX spend.
• Key point of contact and responsible for landing ECIF process and insights in the Area and Asia.

Partnership: Trusted advisor of the Area leadership team and Asia Finance Controllership community. Collaborate with Area, Regional and Corporate stakeholders.

• Responsible for ensuring that all parties deliver maximum value to the business and are continually improving operational effectiveness.
• Oversees the budgeting, forecasting, actual, variance and trend analysis for OPEX spend, ensuring insightful commentary provided to area leadership team and offering solutions in P&L optimization.

Prioritization: The Asia OPEX Controller manage the P&L in line with quarterly financial accountability and deliver insights on P&L OPEX spend.

• Manage the budget and forecast process across ECIF and other Opex lines, across Management P&L and Statutory books.
• Work closely with Area FC and within Asia Regional FC team to provide Quarterly business review and actional insights.
• P&L management.
• Provide the required insight for quarterly SOX controls, in particular Opex Trends (CR4).
• Own accuracy of ECIF and Other OPEX spend.
• Opex month close, forecast, analysis & planning.

Key indicators of success

• Own accuracy of ECIF and Other OPEX spend.
• ECIF and Other OPEX expense insights.
• Finance Compliance results (SOX) with direct relation to the role.
• Standardization and simplification of processes.
• Strong community lead btw area and core teams.
• Sufficient and accurate SOX Controls.