Cloud & AI Platform Finance Manager

Seeking a Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) finance role in Zürich, Switzerland?

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!

 

This role is for you if you enjoy solving complex and ambiguous business problems. You will develop deep analytical and collaboration skills. You will also develop deep understanding of the business you support and have an eye for detail without losing sight of the big picture.

You can effectively manage orchestration of complex deliverables, be highly collaborative across multiple teams/cultures and at the same time can sit across the table with leaders with

crisp and succinct insights to drive decision making. We are looking for an experienced Finance Manager with effective Controllership and Financial Analysis expertise to support Swiss Area Finance organization. If this sounds like you, then we should talk.

 

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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/minimum qualifications

Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 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 experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud expertise, deal structuring knowledge
• advanced Excel skills 
• machine learning/bot experience, and advanced Excel skills preferred
• Experience in Multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles is recommended
• Good compliance understanding / experience for the deal structuring and execution.
• Fluent in English
• BA/BS or MBA degree in Finance, Economics,
• Workpermit for the European Union is an advantage
• Worklocation Zürich, Switzerland

 

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