Group Finance Manager

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Redmond
Posted on: November 23, 2022

Job Description:

Seeking a finance role that is at the forefront of looking across the Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) business? Keen on working with and learning from finance teams in the Field and at Corporate? Energized by teamwork and playing an integral role in helping leaders see beyond the numbers? If yes, come and join us!We are looking for a Group Finance Manager to lead a team of Finance Managers who will own revenue and P&L reporting, forecast & planning tool management, and hierarchy & data governance for MCAPS Finance Central FP&A team. This role will provide reporting for weekly & monthly flashes, monthly close results, quarterly forecasting, and annual planning cycles for corporate headquarters and field finance stakeholders across. Provide thought leadership on continuous reporting improvement, evolution of forecast and planning tools, and rationalization of product and organizational hierarchy structures.Reporting

• Reporting Projects Lead: MCAPS Point of contact for FP&A and Product Teams to define, create, and gather requirements for implementing and maintaining changes for Commercial Revenue reporting.
• Executive Flashes: Partner with Central Finance Team and Engineering team to help create, maintain, automate the Billed and Consumption Revenue flashes.
• Close & Forecast: Collaborate with Product teams Field Finance communities to teams to automate visuals for Exec Reviews and maintain such as Close and forecast reporting packages
• Commercial Business Performance Review: Partner with finance to identify the right KPI's driving business performance conversations and subsequently visualizing them in Modern Finance tools such as Power BI.
• Modern Finance Reporting Platform: Work with Strategy and Operations to simplify and standardize financial performance visuals on integrated Finance and Business platforms.
• Field Outlook: Maintain current revenue & P&L Outlook Tools, Simplifying submission and reporting through single reporting platform, and producing standardized slide content for leadership reviews.Budget/Planning Tool & Reporting Support
  • Co-lead development and maintenance of new forecasting and planning models in partnership with Central Finance Team tools Project Management and Engineering teams
  • Lead requirements gathering process with product teams on new tool functions
  • Provide new or participate in existing forums to solicit feedback from HQ products teams and Field finance users on tools performance and share best practicesHierarchy & Data Governance
    • Mange Rhythm of Business processes for review for or changes to MCAPS organizational and product hierarchy architecture
    • Partner with Microsoft's corporate Financial Data Management team to obtain executive approvals and operationalize hierarchy architecture changes encompassing product, pricing level, and organization hierarchies
    • Maintain accuracy of MCAPS product allocation rules impacting externally reported financials.

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