Commercial Finance Director – ANZ in Sydney, Australia

The ANZ MCAPS Finance team is a strategic partner to Microsoft’s diverse businesses, providing insights, analysis and guidance for financial and operational decisions. We:

• 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.

• 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 high performing impactful teams while providing diverse career opportunities.

As Commercial Director, you will have a unique opportunity to use your insights and strategic thinking to partner with leaders on financial decisions, investments, efficiency and process transformation projects.

You will closely partner across both Enterprise and Public Sector Account teams, Specialist Sellers, the Customer Success unit, the Global Partner team and Deal desk to drive financial outcomes in pursuit of our business objectives.

You will demonstrate leadership in providing insights on market opportunity and support strategic deal making and partnerships.

You will lead a team of finance professionals in support of business leaders and business strategy.

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

The ANZ Commercial Director leads business analytics and research activities determining present and future financial performance, formulating and evaluating financial plans, economic transactions, and future opportunities.

Partnership:

• They lead efforts to work with business partners to translate top-down targets to an accountable budget and to generate operational plans and strategy within their organization.

• They provide direction and actionable insights on the state of the business to key stakeholders. They partner with senior business and commercial leaders to drive performance and strategy to achieve the best return on investment and shareholder return.

• They apply 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.

Prioritisation:

• They are able to conceptualize and design new approaches to how financial data is collected and evaluated to impact the broader organization and Microsoft’s long-term goals.

• They work with Microsoft experts to identify and leverage advanced tools and technology.

• They understand the interconnections between data, information, and results and translate this into forward-looking narratives and forecasts.

Protect:

• They drive the right tone from executive leadership and ensure strict adherence and understanding of Microsoft policies.

People:

• In addition, this role has people management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 10+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

MBA/Masters Degree Preferred

Key Capabilities and skills required in this role include:

Analytical Skills: The ability to review quantitative or conceptual problems and situations to draw appropriate and valid conclusions from data presented. This includes analyzing data to determine the most significant elements, identify common elements and themes in situations and actions, and recognize cause and effect relationships.

Business Acumen: The ability to understand the parts of the business and their interrelationships. This includes skill in understanding the industry, competition, and expected future developments and challenges, the business’s competitive strengths and weaknesses, opportunities to grow the business and reduce operating costs; and awareness of the environment for opportunities.

Executive Relationships: The ability to interact confidently with senior leaders of the organization in order to present/defend/clarify concerns or issues regarding an existing project, program, or solution. This includes the ability to confidently address difficult questions, handle push back from a high-level audience, and maintain an executive demeanor while engaging in difficult or sometimes high-pressure situations.

Problem Solving: The ability to identify problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Strategic Thinking: The ability to examine and understand the organization’s competitive strengths and weaknesses. This includes the ability to: look for opportunities to grow the business and reduce costs; monitor the environment for opportunities; formulate strategies that provide distinct competitive advantages; and consider problems and opportunities from a broad, multi-functional perspective.

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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .