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Partners with business leaders to interpret financial results, guide decisions, and maximize ROI across revenue, expenses, and investments. Translates top‑down targets into accountable budgets and operating plans, ensuring execution through performance tracking, forecasting, and reporting discipline. Delivers actionable, forward‑looking insights by connecting financial data to business drivers, risks, and opportunities, supported by automation and improved analytics. Upholds strong governance by driving executive tone on risk and compliance and ensuring robust accounting policies, controls, and adherence to Microsoft standards.
Job Responsibility:
Develops and leverages relationships with business partners to bolster sales, and to understand and manage business risk
Designs and negotiates solutions to complex financial issues with business partners
Collects customer and partner feedback data and applies data analysis techniques to improve experience
Serves as an advocate for Microsoft and its partners
Manages balance between customer centricity, enablement of sales, and cost-effectiveness
Works 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
Develops and tests financial models
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
Consults with business leaders on implications of results and operating revenue and expenses
Provides guidance to achieving objectives and maximizing return-on-investment (e.g., operational efficiencies, resource allocation, vendor agreements, etc.)
Drives resource allocation and identifies opportunities for optimization and prioritization
Advises business partners on headcount and Profit & Loss (P&L) processes and requirements
Performs and reviews analysis, modeling, and research of present and future financial performance, financial plans (e.g., expected returns, resource allocation, pricing, investment opportunities, revenue, operational metrics, productivity metrics), and economic transactions (e.g., customer deals, commercial partnerships, acquisitions)
Prepares and summarizes recommendations
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 financial compliance standards, Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards
Advances key compliance initiatives
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
3+ years experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles
Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience OR Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 12+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience OR equivalent experience
3+ years work experience in matrix-based organization
3+ years work experience in the technology or software industry