Cloud & AI Finance Manager

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. This role puts you in the middle of one of the world’s largest companies in the midst of several of the biggest disruptions the technology industry has ever seen.
We are looking for a Cloud & AI Finance Manager focused on the Netherlands market. Key responsibilities include delivering end-to-end consumption insights, and partnering with the Customer Success organiztion on driving Azure consumption growth strategy. This role is essential for driving end to end Azure transformation and execution, working in deep engagement with business partners and sales operations and sales excellence teams.
The Cloud & AI Finance Manager drives business performance, ensures alignment of investments and business cases with strategic goals. Additionally, close collaboration on account-level action plans to accelerate consumption as well as providing customer lifecycle analysis to identify risks and opportunities are key elements of the role.

Responsibilities

Prioritize

• Determines operating revenue and expenses and conducts variance analyses; identifies causes and recommendations.
• Contributes to resource allocation and identifies opportunities for optimization and prioritization.
• Performs analysis, modeling, and research of present and future financial performance, financial plans (e.g., expected returns, resource allocation, pricing, investment opportunities, revenue, operational metrics, productivity metrics), and economic transactions (e.g., customer deals, commercial partnerships, acquisitions).
• Assists in the execution of annual business planning and forecasting process.
• Completes analysis, modeling, and research to support preliminary and adjusted forecast cycles.
• Assists with developing and testing financial models.
• Partners and solicits insight from business and commercial stakeholders.
• Develops and manages financial plans, budgets, and forecasts to support strategic decision-making.
• Provides business leader support and actionable insights during financial close periods.
• Reviews recurring financial statements, reporting, forecasts and presentations; identifies trends, and formulates action plans.
• Determines financial results (e.g., revenue, COGS, OPEX) and conducts variance analyses; identifies causes and solutions.
• Collaborates to ensure execution of plans and accountability for results.
• Contributes to new and unconventional methods and approaches to data collection, analysis, interpretation, and financial models.
• Provides advice and direction in evaluating suitability and reliability of data, articulate limitations, and propose solutions on data management and operations.
• Acts as subject matter expert for data management and operations.

Partnership

• Provides business insights and recommendations to peers and stakeholders to achieve financial goals (e.g., resource allocation, cost optimization, revenue management, trends, and future requirements) and drive shareholder return.
• Collaborates with business leaders to define action plans for financial and business analysis findings.
• Manages and executes processes through engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
• Applies advanced understanding of Microsoft Finance (e.g., financial systems, policies and procedures, key metrics, historical performance, reporting, and forecast requirements) and business (e.g., market dynamics, key metrics, Finance and Accounting reporting requirements, rules, and regulations; accounting, and control strategy) to multiple contexts and situations to evaluate results, financial models and forecasts, and to complete all filings and reporting.
• Develops and manages strategies to proactively mitigate, or reactively address, potential adverse effects of macroeconomic and/or geopolitical risks.
• Assesses potential impacts of changes.
• Develops new approaches to leverage best-in-class technology (e.g., Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Predictive Analytics etc.) to accomplish goals.
• Contributes to efforts to implement technology to increase productivity (e.g., report optimization) and to ensure accurate conclusions.
• Integrates varied data sources and assimilates the information into a comprehensive, clear narrative.
• Communicates results in a compelling, timely, and understandable message through storytelling.
• Articulates understanding and awareness of business partner situations.
• Develops and leverages relationships with business partners to bolster sales, and to understand and manage business risk.
• Designs and negotiates solutions to complex financial issues with business partners.
• Collects customer and partner feedback data and applies data analysis techniques to improve experience.
• Serves as an advocate for Microsoft and its partners.
• Manages balance between customer centricity, enablement of sales, and cost-effectiveness.

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.
• Drives a compliant culture through actions and decisions to instill trust.
• Advocates, educates, and promotes best practices and new developments.
• Encourages asking questions and identifying risks to compliance.
• Champions financial compliance standards, Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards.
• Advances key compliance initiatives.
• Where appropriate, reviews all financial statements, reports, and filings for all country, federal, state, and local regulatory agencies (including US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings and disclosures).

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND solid experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications:

• experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.
• work experience in matrix-based organization.
• work experience in the technology or software industry.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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