The Group Finance Manager is part of the Operating Systems (OS) Strategic Analytics team that serves as a center of excellence for all insights and analytics related to the health of the Windows business. This person will lead a team of 3 talented finance managers, with the primary focus of enhancing insights into our business performance. The ideal candidate will combine great people management with a high degree of business acumen and technical financial analysis skills.
• Drive best-in-class insights on Windows and Windows Phone activations and retail performance to measure health of the business
• Maintain regular cadence of reporting and analysis of business performance
– Weekly activation flash (Windows & Windows Phone) to senior management
– Retail dashboards to measure competitive performance and highlight risks and opportunities
– Monthly update of the OS components of the Board Of Directors scorecard
• Start bi-weekly ad-hoc deep dive analysis on topics of current interest
• Partner with peer finance teams on the monthly business insight review with CFO and the OS Leadership Team scorecard reviews
• Partner with the business excellence team to simplify information flow and enable self-serve reporting on key sources of data
• Lead the development of dashboards, KPIs and metrics to track performance and impact of pricing decisions
• Develop and regularly monitor the device landscape across form factor (PC, phone, tablet) and hardware specifications using internal and external data to understand impact of pricing decisions
• Track progress across OS investments in device categories and highlight market trends
• Partner with the device market intelligence team and OS engineering to develop a common view of the Windows and Internet Explorer installed base/share across form factor and OS version
• Partner with engineering to develop a monthly dashboard of Windows installed base by OS version, form factor and geography
• Drive the long-range installed base forecast to serve as input into key business decisions
• Develop a rhythm to analyze and monitor OS platform adoption towards stated goals
• Track progress of Internet Explorer share by OS version as well as IE fragmentation
• Partner with peer finance teams and OS engineering and marketing teams to develop a joint view of monetization on the Windows platform
• Partner with engineering to understand and track user behavior/monetization on Windows SKUs
• Develop a rhythm of business with peer finance teams to track monetization progress of first party apps and services on Windows
• Ensure development and satisfaction of team by providing challenging and meaningful development opportunities
• Responsibility for coaching and developing the team and succession planning
• Ensuring continuity in areas of success on MS Poll and improvement in areas of development
Qualifications:
• 7-10+ years of increasing responsibility in financial analysis roles
• High level of business acumen and ability to spot trends and garner key insights from high volumes of data
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong business partnering skills, needs ability to influence without authority
• Very strong technical finance skills (Excel mastery is expected; experience working with PowerPivot, macros, SQL a strong plus)
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.
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