Job Description

As the Group Finance Manager leading the consumer LTV finance team, focusing on business engagement on specific projects with EGs, you will:

* Manage the portfolio of LTV-related projects and engagements across Microsoft consumer
* Lead your team on these engagements to improve net LTV across Microsoft products, services and business models.
* Quantify and prioritize opportunities as part of these business case analysis, identifying the LTV potential from the work and approach to the case.
* Partner with the relevant business groups and finance teams as well as engineering teams, e.g., IDEAs team for Consumer Growth Engine, to help them develop recommendations to act on these insights.
* Measure and analyze impact of experiments designed to validate hypothesis and recommendations.
* Provide feedback loop on the user data structure and model, and the overall LTV framework, based on the analysis and insight derived from the business cases. The focus will start with consumer, and then expand to commercial once consumer has ramped up.

Prioritize

Performs analysis and research 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.).
Assists in the execution of annual business planning and forecasting process. Completes
analysis, modeling, and research to support preliminary and adjusted forecast cycles;
partners and solicits insight from business and commercial stakeholders.
Provides business leader support and actionable insights during financial close periods.
Reviews recurring financial reporting and presentations; identifies trends, and formulates
action plans. Determines financial results (e.g., revenue, profitability, OPEX, etc.) and
conducts variance analyses; identifies variance causes and solutions. Collaborates to ensure
execution of plans and accountability for results.
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 strong relationships with
customers at senior 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

Provides business insights and recommendations to peers and stakeholders to achieve
revenue and profitability goals and drive shareholder return, including; resource allocation,
cost optimization, revenue generation, trends, and future requirements. Manages and
executes processes through engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
Collaborates with business leaders to define action plans for financial and business analysis
findings.
Applies advanced understanding of Microsoft Finance and business (e.g., monetization
strategy, market, key drivers, revenue channels, advanced technology, and business partner
work context) to multiple situations to evaluate results and analysis. Develops and manages
strategies to proactively mitigate, or reactively address, potential adverse effects of
macroeconomic and/or geopolitical risks. Maintains working knowledge of Microsoft
financial systems, policies, and processes to evaluate potential impacts of changes, and
drives improvements in efficiency and accuracy.
Contributes to new and unconventional methods and approaches to data collection,
analysis, interpretation, and financial models. Provides advice and direction to teammates
and peers on data management and operations.
Leads efforts to leverage technology to increase productivity (e.g., report optimization) and
to ensure accurate conclusions.
Integrates varied data sources and assimilates the information into a comprehensive, clear
narrative. Communicates results in a compelling and understandable message. Articulates
understanding and awareness of business partner situation.

Protect

Ensures compliance with company policies, legal standards, and regulatory requirements by
reviewing and monitoring accuracy of financial documents and business processes; drives
corrective measures. Consults with business partners on sharing financial information,
approved instruments and processes, and consistency with corporate policies. Collaborates
with Compliance groups to ensure team is current on company policies and procedures.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data
Science, or related field AND 4+ years of post-graduate financial analysis,
accounting, controllership, or finance work experience

u25AA OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance,
Economics, Data Science, or related field AND 2+ years of post-graduate
financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
u25AA OR equivalent experience.