AddressThe ANZ MCAPS Finance team is a strategic partner to Microsoft's diverse businesses, providing insights, analysis and guidance for financial and operational decisions. We:
- Land the company vision around the transformation of our business 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 customer and shareholder point of view in a compliant way.
- Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of high performing impactful teams while providing diverse career opportunities.
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.
Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics or related field AND 6+ years post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or Finance work experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- +2-3 year(s) experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.
- +2-3 year(s) work experience in matrix-based organization.
- +2-3 year(s) work experience in the technology or software industry.
- Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Accountants (CA) or equivalent certification.
Our team leverages the following sets of skills, which this role will help you enhance:
Analytical
- Deep analytical and reporting capabilities which include leveraging internal Microsoft tools, reporting cubes, BI tools and other financial systems
- Passion to solve problems, working at multiple altitudes, from strategic and high-level framing to detailed analysis
Cross-Group Collaboration
- Leadership skills, proactively driving and delivering high-impact results through both individual and v-team effort
- Partnering capabilities, influencing others without direct authority and appropriately pushing back when required
Project management
- Effectively managing and prioritizing multiple inputs, tasks and stakeholders, sometimes under tight deadlines
- Comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty, in a business that evolves at a fast pace
People: As functional lead of area management P&L, the FC is accountable for orchestrating the Financial Controller team and rhythms. The FC is also an experienced professional within the Area Finance community and is expected to contribute to the thought leadership of the community.
- In charge of the Area management P&L and lead FC communities of best practice in the Area.
- Key point of contact for Regional community leads and responsible for landing finance initiatives in the area.
Partnership: Trusted advisor of the area leadership team and liaison to ASIA regional finance. The FC builds partnerships across the Area to deliver insights on P&L results, accurately forecast future results and inform decision-makers on a timely basis to optimize spend.
- Collaborate with HR (Human Resources), SE&O (Sales Excellence and Operations), Regional Headquarters team, One Finance (centralized Finance Shared Services team), One Payroll (centralized Payroll team) and the business. Responsible for ensuring that all parties deliver maximum value to the business and are continually improving operational effectiveness.
- Oversees the budgeting, forecasting, actual, variance and trend analysis for all costs, ensuring insightful commentary provided to area leadership team and offering solutions in P&L optimization.
Prioritization: The FC has primary responsibility for overseeing overall Quarterly Financial Accountability (QFA), people costs and headcount. Additionally, this role is responsible for orchestrating key P&L rhythms (Budget, Forecast, Closing, reviews), owning and driving and efficient end-to-end process for the ANZ Area while continuing to drive for standardization and simplification.
- Process: Responsible for Area P&L planning and orchestration of key financial processes (e.g. Budget, Forecast, Closing, quarterly business review), owning and driving and efficient end-to-end process.
- QFA: Drive and manage Field Operating Model (FOM) and inform decision-makers on timely basis to optimize spending.
- CPH, Headcount and People costs: Monitor, analyze trends, identify variance to Budget/forecast, one-off items and causes of unexpected variances.
- Headcount ramp: Supervise/accountable for planning of HC and HC ramp for the Area.
- Payroll costs: Ensure accuracy of Payroll costs, by performing a detailed review of variances and coordinating with local Stat & Tax controllers and centralized Shared Services Finance teams as appropriate.
- SOX & accounting: Supervise SOX & MAP (Microsoft Accounting Policy) compliance and sign-off for Area Management P&L.
Protect: Ensuring proactive risk management through internal controls and compliance.
- Collaborate with the Controls & Compliance lead to embed compliance into the finance and business processes within the area.
- Oversees the systems and processes that deliver outcomes to meet regulatory requirements (including SOX) as well as advises on revisions to these systems and processes to adapt to changing legislative environments.
