CSA Azure Finance Manager

The CSA Finance manager is the Finance partner to the Enterprise Group Finance Leads in France EMEA and at Corp, the Area GTM Management and SalesExcellence&Operations Lead, and other product-aligned business leaders. 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 New Business & Customer Success Finance managers. The CSA Finance manager drives upsell motions, growth and new products adoption in the Enterprise Segments.

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Responsibilities

• OB 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 modeling. 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 modeling, and more. Support the business with usable analytics and customer engagement, including TCO analytics. 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 modeled 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.

Qualifications

Required Qualification:

• Master’s degree in Finance and extensive experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Fluency in English is required for business communication.

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience with machine learning technologies and bot development or integration.
• Experience in finance roles spanning multiple products and customer segments.
• Strong understanding of compliance frameworks and hands-on experience in deal structuring and execution within regulated environments.

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