Microsoft Worldwide Devices & Creativity Financial Planning ＆ Accounting Controller 

United States, Washington 

813240399

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.

Culture & Behavior
You simplify and inspire through storytelling and communication skills.

Required/Minimum 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles
  
• Ability to drive the transformation
  
• Proficient communication and interpersonal skills
  
• Ability to analyze, interpret, and explain business results
  
• Experience and comfort presenting to Executive Management
  
• Organization skills and the ability to manage multiple and competing tasks/priorities
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in complex environments.
  

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

Job’s Details People & Leadership

• Delivers 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.

Prioritize

• Drives the Rhythm of the Business (RoB) for the CSA, managing key processes, timelines, consolidating outcomes.
• Consolidating the Worldwide (WW) story, performs and reviews analysis of present and future financial performance, financial plans (e.g., expected returns, resource allocation, pricing, investment opportunities) and economic transactions (e.g., customer deals, commercial partnerships, acquisitions, etc.).
• Prepares and summarizes recommendations.
• Works both across regions and directly with business partners to translate top-down targets to an accountable budget for each group.
• Completes and reviews analysis, modeling, and research to support preliminary and adjusted forecast cycles. Partners and solicits insight from business and commercial stakeholders.
• Partners across teams to deliver results, tracking performance, report accuracy, and partnering with business leaders to ensure execution of plans and accountability for results.
• Manages the rhythm of the business for area of responsibility including monthly close, recurring business review preparation, and budgeting. Generates relevant and actionable insights to drive the business forward.
• Develops and leverages relationships with customers and partners to bolster sales, and to understand and manage business risk. Collects customer feedback data and applies data analysis techniques to improve customer experience.
• Builds relationships with customers at executive levels.
• Designs and negotiates solutions to complex financial issues with customers. Engages with customers and partners on their wider relationships with Microsoft.
• Serves as advocate for Microsoft and its customers.
• Understands customers' businesses to plan growth.
• Manages balance between customer centricity, enablement of sales, and cost effectiveness.

Partnership

• Shares business insights and advances solutions and action plans to drive business and commercial leader goals and short-term accountabilities.
• Provides credible insights into industry benchmarks and consumer trends, performance improvements, and growth. Facilitates to resolve complex issues.
• Manages and executes processes through engagement with internal and external stakeholders. Applies understanding of the broader Microsoft context to offer solutions to ensure organizational objectives are met.
• Develops and manages strategies to proactively mitigate, or reactively address, potential adverse effects of macroeconomic and/or geopolitical risks.
• Articulates a comprehensive view of financial results and approaches leaders can implement based on understanding of business partner and counterpart work context and situation.
• Considers competing views and alterative solutions when formulating recommendations for financial plans and forecasts.
• Conceptualizes and designs new approaches to how financial data is collected and evaluated to impact future outcomes and decisions.
• Drives improvements in data management through automation. Applies understanding of advanced technology to accomplish business goals and to provide greater depth of analysis.
• Understands the interconnections between data, information, and results and translates this into forward looking narratives and forecasts.
• Provides clarity and alignment with executive leaders.
• Implements creative ways to show patterns and draw conclusions to help drive decisions and clearly communicate findings.
• Generates actionable plans based on complex results, ambiguous findings, and multi-year time horizons. Articulates understanding and awareness of business partner situation.

Protect

• 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 modeled throughout the organization.
• Drives a compliant culture through actions and decisions to instill trust. Advocates, educates, and promotes best practices and new developments.
• Encourages asking questions and identifying risks to compliance. Champions Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards. Advances key compliance initiatives.