Microsoft is looking for a CEE Multi Country Cluster CFO.
Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Finance are driving shareholder value in 54 subsidiaries & 121 Sales Locations. Carry the local accountability for the financials, statutory and compliance matters across all Microsoft commercial segments and products. Lead the strategic financial planning to preserve long term sustainable growth, to maximize market share, and to empower others to achieve more.
Team:
- 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. Key focus is on New Business and consumption 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, inspire, and care for our people to lead and be part of high performing impactful teams while providing diverse career opportunities
This CFO role is covering 26 countries among which 3 Baltics countries, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Greece, Romania. CFO is member of the subsidiary leadership team and accountable for executing all finance deliverables to enable sustainable long-term growth. As part of CEE FLT, Cluster CFO have direct impact on shaping community priorities and enabling success of individuals and whole group.
Responsibilities:
People Management:
- Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring
- Model - Live company`s culture; Embody company`s values; Practice company`s leadership principles
- Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn
- Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others
Prioritize:
- Leads business analytics and research activities determining present and future financial performance, formulating and evaluating financial plans, economic transactions, and future opportunities. Prepares, summarizes, and drives recommendations
- Leads effort to work with business partners to translate top-down targets to an accountable budget and to generate operational plans and strategy within their organization. Leads annual planning and forecasting processes. Reviews, analyzes, and prepares recommendations for preliminary and adjusted forecast cycles. Partners and solicits insight from senior business and commercial stakeholders
- Provides direction and actionable insights on the state of the business to key stakeholders. Orchestrates the rhythm of the business for area of responsibility including closing, recurring business review preparation, sharing trends, and budgeting. Guides team to focus on driving profitable growth by being an integral part of planning and performance tracking processes. Collaborates and empowers others to ensure execution of plans and accountability for results
- Leads customer relationship management. Oversees complex negotiations with customers. Ensures that organization and teams remain customer-centric. Develops strong relationships with customers at senior levels. Develops capabilities of teams to engage with customers on their wider relationships with Microsoft. Manages balance between customer centricity, enablement of sales, and cost effectiveness. Drives recommendations for solutions to complex financial issues with customers
Partnership:
- Partners with senior business and commercial leaders to drive performance and strategy to achieve the best return on investment (ROI) and shareholder return
- Gains commitment from stakeholders to align execution and mitigate risk
- Guides team to focus on generating actionable business insights to drive profitable growth and shareholder return by being an integral part of the business decision making process
- Partners across boundaries to remediate and resolve complex issues
- Applies advanced understanding of Microsoft business, industry, and drivers of shareholder return to ensure senior leaders are presented with the most relevant data, insights, risks, and recommendations necessary to support strategy execution
- Leverages business expertise to attract and inspire talent and help others reach their full potential
- Understands the interconnections between data, information, and results and translates this into forward looking narratives and forecasts
- Provides clarity and alignment with senior leaders
- Implements creative ways to show patterns and draw conclusions to help drive decisions and clearly communicate findings
- Generates actionable plans based on complex results, ambiguous findings, and multi-year time horizons
- Coaches team to translate data into a simplified and engaging message with actionable insights
- Facilitates a shared understanding and awareness of business partner situation
Protect:
- Drives the right tone from executive leadership and ensures strict adherence and understanding of Microsoft policies on risk and compliance
- Influences leadership to ensure compliance is a top priority and modeled throughout the organization
- Directs team and holds others accountable to ensure financial control processes, policies, instruments, and procedures are executed
- Guides team and encourages others to identify and share risks to compliance and take steps to mitigate
- Drives a compliant culture through actions and decisions to instill trust
- Advocates, educates and promotes best practices and new developments
- Champions Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards
- Advances key compliance