CSA (A&I/D&AI) Finance manager

In Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Finance, we're driving
shareholder value in
‎57 subsidiaries & ‎117 Sales Locations and carry the local accountability for
the financials as well as statutory and compliance matters across all
Microsoft commercial segments and products. We:
* Land the company vision around the transformation of our business, consumption, 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. Key focus is on New Business with an industry and workload perspective.
* 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 top performing teams while providing diverse career opportunities.
Microsoft MEA is a multi-sub region consisting of ‎7 subs, Israel, South
Africa, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Middle East Countries
(MEC) and Multi Cluster Country (MCC). MEA is a key enabler of IT growth
through solid partnership with Governments, Enterprise, small and medium as
well as IT partners and consumer partners of the region. The finance team has
the responsibility to partner with sales and marketing teams along with
segments and business groups. Microsoft Finance is a truly global finance
team, and you will be part of the WW community to make each other great and
build on each other

The C+E Finance manager is the Finance partner to the EG Finance Leads at
Corp, the Area C+E Lead, and other product-aligned business leaders. The
successful candidate will develop deep subject matter expertise on
Applications & Infrastructure products and Data & AI products including Azure
Application Platform, Azure Data Services, SQL Server, and other products to
deliver actionable insights to business partners as well as the Segment and
New Business & Customer Success Finance managers.

Responsibilities

Partnership:
* Drive cloud growth in the Geo through deep Cloud analytics forward and backwards
* Understand competitive market insights, provide thought leadership to challenge EG leads & STU around new business opportunities / growth road map landscape.
* Provide insights into the New Business (and Segment) Finance managers in a way that can be easily actioned. Provide insights to subsidiaries in a digestible manner which can be easily leveraged
* Accountable for finance content within EG ROB, Planning & Execution incl. budget, forecast; owns ACR numbers and provide billed to consumed ratio to segments as well as overages reporting
* Lead a strong community of Large Sub CSA Finance managers in partnership with the MW/BA Area Finance manager to focus on the key insights and projects to accelerate the business and increase productivity and focus of sellers and partners.
* Lead the Area forecast, budget and Outlook processes for Area planning with accurate forecasts and high-quality budgets
* Build a partnership with Corp EG Finance teams providing insights from the Area and advocating for the Area business
* Drive analytics and deeper understanding for Apps & Infra and for Data & AI workloads and differentiating insights for more advanced workloads especially on AI.
* Own predictive analytics for Billed and ACR, verify ML outcomes in partnership with EG and New Business Finance manager on Azure consumed to form an opinion what to build into CFO Forecast and FOM scenarios
* Provide business insights to accelerate growth of Azure consumed revenue focusing on premium services and Azure everywhere - Opportunity/growth road map generation
* Balance growth through our existing consuming customers and Azure Customer Adds.
* Product coverage for Data Platform (SQL), Azure data services
* Contribution to partner motion acceleration to drive CSP growth
* Develop understanding of workload margins to influence ROI decision making
* Partner with the investment controller to drive shared understanding on return from investments (Local DC, HIPO etc.)
Prioritization:
* Accountable for finance content related to EG ROB, Planning & Execution incl. budget, forecast, consumption and ongoing insights in efficient manner.

Qualifications

‎5-‎7 years of experience in finance positions
Strong analytical skills and business acumen
Industry experience preferred, but not limited to technology (Telco, Netflix,
& Gartner etc.)
Fluent in English

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,
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