Job Description

Senior Finance Manager, WCB Controllership Team

Are you looking to grow your finance career at Microsoft? Do you want to join a high-performing team that works hard to cultivate a positive team culture while driving meaningful business impact? Join Microsoft's Worldwide Commercial Business Finance team!

The WCB Finance organization works across all Microsoft products & services and influences sales teams world-wide. We are looking for finance professionals who can proactively partner with both finance and business leaders to drive global impact with the goal of optimizing resources, maximizing revenue, margin, and market share. We will empower and inspire you to lead and be a top performer while providing diverse career opportunities.

In this Senior Finance Manager role in the WCB Controllership team, you will be involved in all aspects of financial management of Operating Expenses of Customer Success organization. You will engage directly with Customer Success leaders to plan, monitor and provide guidance on spending across their division. The job offers a good balance of business intelligence, partnership, and financial controllership.

Core Job Responsibilities:

* Finance Rhythms of Business: Drive Customer Success Finance ROB for target setting, budgeting, and forecasting. Develop a calendar in sync with the corporate and business timelines. Communicate required deliverables clearly and facilitate reviews and trade-off discussions with the Services leadership. Understand the strategy adopted by Services and maintain the financial hierarchies to mirror how the team views its business.

* Business Partnership: Effective collaboration with senior Customer Success leaders, HR & Staffing partners, and a diverse group of delivery & operations leaders, technical project leads, and business managers.

* P&L Analysis & Financial Modeling: Analyze Cogs & Opex results to understand performance against plan. Monitor trends and key levers, such as HC growth and vendor investment against plan/forecast assumptions. Perform ROI analysis for operations & delivery models. Recommend a course of action if risk is present.

* Financial Reporting: Publish executive-grade monthly financial summary highlighting risks and opportunities impacting bottom lines in a timely manner. Clearly communicate results and recommendations to senior business leaders. Automate and improve reporting processes as much as possible with the available resources & tools.

* Month End Close: Ensure monthly financial results are stated accurately and in accordance with GAAP. This includes preparation and posting of journal entries for expense accrual and reclassification. Ensure adequate internal controls are in place and audit guidelines are adhered to. Identify and implement process improvements as needed.

Requirements / Qualifications:

* Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or Finance work experience
* * Additional or Preferred Qualifications..
* 1+ years experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance
* 1+ years work experience in matrix-based organization.
* 1+ years work experience in the technology or software industry.
* Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Association of Certified Chartered Accountant
* (ACCA) or equivalent certification.
* Or equivalent experience
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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