Microsoft Consumer Sales Organisation (CSO) works across all Microsoft products and services sold to Consumers, under 2 Microsoft Solution Areas Gaming covering Xbox Hardware and Services and Devices and Creativity covering Surface, Office and Windows. The CSO team partners with internal and external customers alike with the goal of maximizing revenue, market share, and mutual profit ensuring the highest ethics and compliance in any action.
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.
CSO Finance is a truly global finance team highly engaged in developing its talent and have them evolve in a moving environment. CSO Finance spans all finance functions; we span working with Marketing to drive our product categories, with Supply and Ops to ensure we have the right product in the right places, Sales to understand our Partner Account mechanics and Channel Strategy, manage the organisation's Rhythm of the Business (RoB) and are custodians of the profit & loss (P&L). We chart our Growth path in existing businesses and in net new areas for the company, whilst prioritizing creating a more Inclusive Microsoft across our products, our culture and our marketing and every customer engagement.
The Worldwide Devices & Creativity Financial Planning Accounting Controller role is an opportunity to be at the heart of a dynamic business at a critical point of evolution. You will play an instrumental role in orchestrating financial processes and business insights, identifying and critically assess investment opportunities optimizing between margin & share to drive profitable sustainable growth engines and shape the landing of our Worldwide (WW) strategy. You will work with diverse teams in matrix organization influencing Regional, WW CSO and Engineering Groups teams. The successful candidate should exhibit passion for our consumer business, a high degree of agility and innovation, transformational thinking and growth mindset in everything we do.
Culture & Behavior
You have a growth mindset, act as an entrepreneur that drives business impact, and continuously learn and innovate. You have a capability to actively contribute and build collaboration within diverse and virtual teams. You are action oriented and able to build and deliver results through others beyond the team as well.
You drive digital transformation in the finance function towards data driven (Machine Learning) forward-looking insights. You also engage directly with customers and business partners.
You simplify and inspire through storytelling and communication skills.
Microsoft values and ethical behavior are a corner stone in our culture.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
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.
Qualifications
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.
Financial Analysis IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,200 - $194,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $142,200 - $213,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .
