Consumer Sales Finance Data and Analytics Controller

Microsoft Consumer Sales Organisation (CSO) works across all Microsoft products and services sold to Consumers, under 2 Microsoft Solution Areas Gaming covering Xbox Hardware and Services and Devices and Creativity covering Surface, Office and Windows. The CSO team partners with internal and external customers alike with the goal of maximizing revenue, market share, and mutual profit ensuring the highest ethics and compliance in any action.

As any finance organization in Microsoft, 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.

• Build trust to lay the foundation of long-term growth from a partner 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.

CSO Fnance is a truly global finance team highly engaged in developing its talent and have them evolve in a moving environment. CSO Finance spans all finance functions; we span working with Marketing to drive our product categories, with Supply and Ops to ensure we have the right product in the right places, Sales to understand our Partner Account mechanics and Channel Strategy, manage the organisation's RoB and are custodians of the P&L. We chart our Growth path in existing businesses and in net new areas for the company, whilst prioritizing creating a more Inclusive Microsoft across our products, our culture and our marketing and every customer engagement.

The Consumer Sales Finance Data and Analytics Controller role is an excellent opportunity to be at the heart of a dynamic business at a critical point of evolution. You will play an instrumental role in orchestrating how we track, measure, monitor the business and drive clear business insights, that help us drive and grow the business providing the building blocks that allow the Finance and Business Orgs identify and critically assess investment opportunities optimizing between margin & share to drive profitable sustainable growth engines and shape the landing of our WW strategy. You will work with diverse teams in matrix organization influencing Regional, WW CSO and EG teams. The successful candidate should exhibit deep desire for our consumer business, a high degree of agility and innovation, transformational thinking and growth mindset in everything we do.

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 effective collaboration within diverse and virtual teams. You are action oriented and able to build and deliver dependable 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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Work across the CSO both Finance and Business teams to understand data and analytic needs and partner across Finance Operations and Business Operations to land solutions.

• Drive efficiency across the teams by driving standardization and creating a single source of truth

• Understand the data requirements to support all the key business and finance cycles and provide data analytics to support, creating efficiencies across the teams through a standardized approach.

• Continually review current data and analytics capability, understand usage and use the insights to inform the go forward action plan whether that be report changes, replacement or training requirements.

• Support business critical ad hoc data and analytics requirements, driving a common understanding of what is required and driving to solutions.

• Not just work within established process but recognizes opportunities to fundamentally improve how we operate and acts as an agent of change, using both formal and informal influence channels to mobilize others.

• Simplify the complex and inspire through storytelling and excellent communication skills. Provide high-quality narrative of performance all up for executive meetings.

• Conceptualizes and designs new approaches to how financial data is collected and evaluated to impact future outcomes and decisions

• Drives improvements in data management through automation. Applies understanding of advanced technology to accomplish business goals and to provide greater depth of analysis.

• Delivers Results through Teamwork: Work through others and across teams, aligning people and resources, establishing high standards of performance, and creating a climate of mutual accountability that delivers expected business results.

• Role modelling our values: Be a role model for the behaviors and standards expected by creating a culture where talent can excel, and diversity of backgrounds and experiences is present and valued.

• Other:

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership, finance, or related field

• OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field

• OR equivalent experience.

Financial Analysis IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $72,800 - $144,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $95,100 - $157,900 per year.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (~~~) .