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SalaryGlobal Treasury & Financial Services (GTFS) support the digital transformation journey of Microsoft’s customers, partners & vendors by providing competitive credit and payment solutions to support revenue growth while managing credit risk. We are a compliance first organization with customer obsession and deal economics focus. We support $120B in trade receivables and $11B in payment solutions per year in global markets. This Group Finance Manager role supports customers and field teams in the Manufacturing Organizational Units (OU) for the US Industries team.
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.
In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities
- Enables revenue by providing on-book payment solutions to customers and partners in the Manufacturing OU. Primary interface of GTFS team with Field, Customer & Partner teams that will work closely with field teams on analyzing and implementing the optimal deal structures. Educate and advise stakeholders on how best to leverage payment solutions to motivate strategic outcomes for the company, with compliance at the center.
- Ambassador for cost of capital execution including leveraging selling skills to influence customer and field account teams of the payment solutions value proposition.
- Partners closely with Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Finance to ensure the cost of capital flexible payment fee buydown requests are adequately considered and documented with regional Chief Financial Officer (CFO) approvals. Partners with MCAPS teams, Deal Desk (DD) and other field roles to understand annual and quarterly revenue target forecasts, plan credit capacity and assess financing support required.
- Leverage cost of capital communication framework to educate and inform account teams, stakeholders and partners of process, implications, and payment solutions value.
Access and utilize Single Ponit of Contracts (SPOC) to appropriately account for payment solutions and related flexible payment fee in Tval submissions. - Attain a solid understanding of the business and manufacturing Organizational Units (OU) to accurately provide inputs for annual business planning and forecasting process.
- Partners with Business Planning & Operations (BPO) teams to support pre-deal and pre-billing processes to maximize post-deal cash flow and customer satisfaction.
- Partners with Customer Advocacy team to support and reduce customer payment delinquency.
- Develops and leverages relationships with field, customers, and partners to bolster sales, and to understand and manage business risk; collects customer feedback data and applies data analysis techniques to improve customer experience; builds deep relationships with field and customers at high levels; designs and negotiates solutions to complex financial issues with customers; provide deal economics analysis to help execute deals.
- Partners closely with Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA), Tax, Accounting, Deal Desk, Field Controllers, and other teams to ensure effective and compliant deal execution that leads to on-time cash collection.
- Serves as advocate for Microsoft and its customers; understands customers' businesses to plan growth; manages balance between customer centricity, enablement of sales, and cost effectiveness.
- Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field
- OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field
- OR equivalent experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Effective influential skills to engage with field account teams and customers.
- Ability to sell and negotiate payment solutions with customers.
- Soild experience in finance, operations or customer facing roles is required.
- High-level of integrity, self-confidence, demonstrated change management and support for a diverse and inclusive culture.
- Excellent cross-group collaboration skills, including the ability to comfortably communicate with expert management at Microsoft.
- Motivated self-starter who can clearly identify and articulate customer value.
- Proven analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to influence others with empathy while under pressure to deliver compliant outcomes to key stakeholders and customers.
Financial Analysis IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,200 - $194,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $142,200 - $213,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
