Contoller Manager

Company Name: Microsoft Employment Type: Full Time Monthly Salary: Unspecified Minimum Work Experience: 10-15 Years Minimum Education Level: N/A Listed By: Employer Career Level: Manager Description: Job Title: CDS Controller Organization: GSMO Finance Microsoft Finance organization purpose: Global Sales Marketing and Operations (GSMO) Finance is driving shareholder value in 60 subsidiaries and carries the local accountability for the financials as well as statutory and compliance matters across all segments and products. We: Land the company vision around the transformation of our business, consumption and customer orientation in the subsidiaries. Drive strategic resource allocation and investments through local insights, ensuring optimal returns aligned with our worldwide strategy. Are the conscience of the business, building trust, to lay the foundation of long-term growth, from a customer and shareholder point of view Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of top performing teams while providing diverse career opportunities. Job's Purpose : This role is a leadership position within both Finance and Consumer and Devices Sales (CDS) teams and is a major contributor to the success of the CDS business in Middle-East and Africa (MEA) This individual will be responsible for establishing processes, driving impact by reporting on key financial metrics, providing insightful financial analysis to drive business decisions in a compliant way and finally establish the long term economic vision for the MEA CDS organization. The position is responsible for an end-to-end management of the MEA CDS P&L. 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 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. 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 excellent communication skills. Microsoft values and ethical behavior are a corner stone in our culture. Being a people manager, you build a high performing, diverse and talented finance team. You are focused on both the individuals as well as the team dimension to attract, develop and retain. Job's Details Business Partnership: Partner with the Segment and Product Groups for continuous learning on the products and market dynamics mainly focusing on cloud products and devices performance, digital transformation and life time value of the product Provide insightful commentary to the management, such that they in turn will drive informed business decisions and actions. Objectively and with Growth Mindset formulate opinions and with data driven viewpoints challenge business partners Challenges existing norms or courses of action, facilitating fully informed decision making Helps institute balanced decision making, driving the business to identify both risk and opportunity. Acts as a good steward of the transformation and change culture by acting as the conscience of the company and approaches problems with Growth Mindset Drive the investment decisions in a timely manner in line with the market dynamics. Apply Growth Mindset to the investment discussions. Represent Microsoft externally by showcasing the value of Microsoft technologies to our customers and partners Business and Finance Excellence: Establish unified Consumer and Devices Sales (CDS) financial processes including Forecast and Budget. Drive efficient, impactful and robust finance rhythm across CDS Successfully leverage predictive analytics and machine learning to assess forecast and time analysis trends at aggregate level to determine outlook and future growth projections Effectively cultivate diverse data outlets (external and internal) and connect the information into a cohesive qualitative story Understand the story behind the numbers and translate this into forward looking narratives and forecasts which incorporate: exploiting opportunities; and which align with underlying Business and Market Insight Focus on driving profitable growth by identifying growth levers, drive cost efficacy, and be an integral part of the subsidiary decision making process Delivers Results through Teamwork: Work through others and across teams, aligning people and resources, utilizing the community that delivers expected business results Understand and communicate clearly Consumer Channel market perspective by analyzing key retailers, market share, inventory levels, key performance indicators and consumer behavior Compliance: Drive the tone of compliance within the CDS business, leading the High Risk Deal Review process Ensure compliance in all areas of risk within the business including discounting and Marketing investments. Key indicators of success: Timely and quality of key Consumer and Devices Sales (CDS) business cycles Support to increase market share by growing faster than local software market Quality of CDS compliance dashboard and corporate audits. Active Participation and communication within the CDS community, learning from others and helping others Qualifications 10+ years of experience in finance / finance leadership positions Experience in Multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles is recommended Fluent in English BA/BS or MBA degree in Finance, Economics, CPA