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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 an energetic, self-starter, and experienced person who will own end to end Small & Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C) ABS & Security as a Group Finance Manager.\nWW SME&C Finance team is a group of finance professionals who analyze the Microsoft business models across countries, channels, and product groups on a daily basis. Our responsibilities range from financial analysis, transformational analysis, pricing & licensing analysis, investment analysis, and competitive analysis to forecasting, planning, and whitespace identification. We help business partners make strategic decisions through educating, driving and implementing financial thinking around revenue today and business models for the future. We drive thought leadership on how to measure success for our scale business in the Corporate Managed and SMB Business space.\nMicrosoft's mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully.\nResponsibilities\nThe SME&C ABS & SecurityGroup Finance Manager position provides a great opportunity to work with the WW MCAPS Finance Team, Area finance CSA teams, and WW SME&C Business to oversee Microsoft SMC Commercial revenue worldwide.\nIn this role you are accountable for:\nGTM execution excellence across ABS & Security, helping translate the plan into measurable execution indicators and driving the actions that close performance gaps.\nLead business case development for new initiatives and strategic changes, partnering with EG and Core teams to drive alignment, and rapid execution.\nProvide actionable insights on pricing, new SKU (GTM), and resource allocation to inform executive decisions\nOwn end to end CSP and Direct for ABS & Security, partnering with the channel teams to define metrics, leading indicators, and the risk and opportunity narrative carried to leadership.\nServe as the central point of contact for the SMB segment on all ABS & Security finance matters - the single front door for questions on performance, budget, targets, definitions, and data, and the person who routes and resolves them across Corporate and the field.\nFoster strong cross-team collaboration across finance, sales finance, and corporate functions.\nDrive standardization and simplification across the SME&C CSA community, SME&C Ops, shared resource teams, and Corporate teams (EG, MCAPS HQ, FDE), retiring duplicative reporting and raising the floor on quality.\nPrioritization\nLead and influence finance transformation efforts, including systems, tools, and process improvements (e.g., financial systems implementation, BI, and Copilot-enabled finance workflows).\nGuides the team on the rhythm of the business that keeps our teams aligned to one calendar, one set of definitions, and one version of the numbers across every solution area within the CSA team.\nMentor and coach peers and the finance community by setting direction, raising the analytical bar, and helping them translate data into insight and build their own bench strength.\nPartnership\nProvides insights into business health, industry benchmarks, and growth. Advances solutions and action plans to land accountabilities.\nParter with FP&A team to enable financial reporting, KPI frameworks, and business performance management for SME&C\nUnderstands business results and translates into forward looking point of view to drive strategic decisions with the senior leaders.\nFacilitates to resolve complex issues and offer solutions to ensure business objectives are met. Shares business expertise to help others implement and execute their goals.\nProtect\nDrives the right tone from executive leadership and ensures strict adherence and understanding of Microsoft policies on risk and compliance.\nInfluences leadership to ensure compliance is a top priority and modeled throughout the organization. Drives a compliant culture through actions and decisions to instill trust; advocates, educates and promotes best practices and new developments.\nDirects team and holds others accountable to ensure financial control processes, policies, instruments, and procedures are executed.\nGuides team and encourage others to identify and share risks to compliance and take steps to mitigate.\nOther\nEmbody Microsoft’s culture and values \nQualifications\nRequired/minimum qualifications\nMaster's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR equivalent experience.\nAdditional or preferred qualifications\nMaster's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience OR Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 12+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience OR equivalent experience.\n3+ years experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.\n3+ years work experience in matrix-based organization.\n3+ years work experience in the technology or software industry.\nFinancial Analysis IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $116,900 - $203,600 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 $148,400 - $222,600 per year.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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. 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