In MCAPS Finance, we’re driving shareholder value in 54 subsidiaries & 120 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 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 and inspire our people to lead and be part of high performing impactful teams while providing diverse career opportunities.

Microsoft ASEAN is multi-billion-dollar operating unit that serves 6 diverse & vibrant sub-regions: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, and Vietnam. As part of the greater Asia region, we work with a vast network of partners to enable digital transformation of commercial & public sector customers in their quest achieve more.

The Asean Finance team partners closely with the sales & marketing teams to identify growth opportunities, accelerate revenue, optimize resources allocation, nurture a strong compliance culture, and deliver upon statutory & tax local requirements. The team is structured in 4 main groups: Compliance, Stat&Tax, Country Finance, and Area HQ Finance, and its members are geographically distributed across all Asean countries. The Cloud & AI CSA Finance manager is the Finance partner to the ASEAN Cloud & AI Enterprise and Area GTM. The successful candidate will develop deep subject matter expertise on the relevant product and products group to deliver actionable insights to business partners as well as the Segment and Customer Success Finance managers. The CSA Finance manager drives upsell motions, growth and new products adoption in the Enterprise Segments.

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.

• Rhythm of Business (ROB) Accountability and Forecast Accuracy: Responsible for ROB accountability and driving forecast accuracy for our products. This includes providing executive insights on deviations from forecasts based on drivers, trends, or deal-based performance.
• Drive Growth and Increase Share: Lead efforts to drive performance by providing insights and opportunities modelling. Mainstream and evangelize whitespace models, and recommend actions based on competitive market insights to drive end-to-end upsell execution. Provide actionable insights supporting pipeline generation, leading to growth and increased market share.
• Go to Market: Advocate for our products. Partner with our GTM leads to drive multiple initiatives aimed at accelerating growth. This includes long-range planning, investment strategy, resilient customer adds, sales play targeting, cloud economics deep modelling, and more. Understand competitive market insights for our products and provide thought leadership around new business opportunities and growth roadmap landscape.
• Product Technical Expertise: Serve as the go-to person on any technical topic pertaining to our products for the Finance organization within the Area. This may include periodic training on newer topics and initiatives.
• Productivity Insights and Resource Optimization: Drive productivity insights for our resources through engagement with the business. Look at correct coverage ratios by role and segment, and provide insights into velocity and capacity through milestone ownership across success engagements.
• Compliance: 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 modelled throughout the organization. Advocates, educates, and promotes best practices and new developments. Encourages asking questions and identifying risks to compliance. Champions Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards.

Key indicators of success

• Strong & open partnership with ASEAN and Asia HQ teams (Finance, Business).
• Leverage insights from area/region and drive strong execution in all Asean markets.
• Coach and mentor finance peers and country sales team members.
• Collaborate to others’ success beyond ASEAN.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance or related field AND 6+ years experience in financial analysis, finance business partnering, or related field.
  • OR Master's Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance or related field AND 4+ years experience in financial analysis, finance business partnering, or related field. controllership or finance, or related field.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Fluent in English.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.
• Ability to operate and thrive in a fluid/uncertain environment.
• Ability to influence, establish credibility and partnership at all levels of the organization.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to details.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft 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. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.