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The Asia MCAPS Regional Security Controller leads financial insights, performance management, and executive storytelling across the Region to drive Security business growth. The role ensures alignment on budget, forecast, and performance outcomes, and connects Area, Regional, and WW Finance & Business leadership. You must have a growth mindset, act as an entrepreneur that drives business impact, and continuously learn and innovate. You have the capability to actively contribute and build strong collaboration within diverse and virtual teams. You are action oriented and able to build and deliver strong results through others beyond the team as well.
Job Responsibility:
People: The Asia MCAPS Regional Security Controller is an experienced professional within the Asia Finance community and is expected to contribute to the thought leadership of the community
Orchestrate Finance Rhythm of the Business (RoB) including QBRs, APRs, forecast cycles, and executive read outs with regards to the Security Business
Be the Asia Security Community Lead, guiding the community on Security Big bets and insights across Asia areas
Partnership: Partner with Area SLT / FLT and Business leaders to drive performance transparency and decision making
Provide forward looking insights on growth, market share, benchmarks, and strategic initiatives
Ensure clarity of expectations, financial accountability, and alignment across stakeholders
Act as the connective tissue between Area, Region, and WW Finance communities
Support Microsoft Big Bets and strategic priorities with data driven insights
Understands the interconnections between data, information, and results and translates this into forward-looking narratives and forecasts
Generates actionable plans based on complex results, ambiguous findings, and multi-year time horizons
Participates in and influences business partner situations understanding and awareness
Collaborates on improvements through automation
Applies understanding of advanced technology to accomplish business goals and to provide greater depth of analysis
Prioritisation: Works directly with business partners to translate top-down targets to an accountable budget for each group
Completes and reviews analysis, modelling, and research to support preliminary and adjusted forecast cycles
Partners and solicits insight from business and commercial stakeholders
Manages financial plans, budgets, and forecasts to support strategic decision-making
Delivers results through tracking performance, reporting accuracy, and partnering with business leaders to ensure execution of plans and accountability for results
Helps to ensure the accurate and timely rhythm of business reporting including key performance indicators (KPIs), monthly close, and budgeting
Generates relevant and actionable insights to drive the business forward
Acts as subject matter expert for data management and operations
Requirements:
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
Capabilities in data analysis, reporting and problem solving with ability to work at multiple altitudes -- from strategic and high-level framing to detailed analysis
Strong partnering capabilities, including influencing others without direct authority and appropriately pushing back when required
Nice to have:
Experience in multinationals / matrix-based organization with multi-product/multi-segment finance
Exposure in the technology or software industry
Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountants (CA) or equivalent certification
Skilled in collaboration, proactively driving and delivering high-impact results through both individual and v-team effort
Ability to influence, establish credibility, trust and partnership at all levels of the organization
Familiarity in presentation of results to senior management on a regular basis
Ability to manage and prioritize multiple inputs, tasks and stakeholders, sometimes under tight deadlines
Experienced in navigating ambiguity and uncertainty, in a business that evolves at a fast pace