In Global Sales Marketing and Operations (GSMO) Finance, we’re driving shareholder value in
57 subsidiaries & 117 Sales Locations and carry the local accountability for the financials as well as statutory and compliance matters across all Microsoft commercial segments and products. We:

• Land the company vision around the transformation of our business and customer orientation in the subsidiaries and externally.
• Drive strategic resource allocation and investments through local insights, ensuring optimal returns aligned with our worldwide strategy. Key focus is on New Business and consumption with an industry and workload perspective.
• Build trust to lay the foundation of long-term growth from a customer and shareholder point of view in a compliant way.
• Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of high performing impactful teams while providing diverse career opportunities.

Microsoft Asia Pacific (APAC) is a high growth multi-country region consisting of 8 subsidiaries (Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, New Zealand) and the South East Asia New Markets multi-country sub region (Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives). Microsoft Asia Pacific has been a key enabler of the market IT growth through solid partnership with Governments, Enterprise, small and medium as well as IT partners and consumer partners of the region. The APAC Finance team has the responsibility to partner with sales and marketing teams with the incremental complexity of supporting all countries and multiple legal entities. Microsoft Finance is a truly global finance team and you will be part of the WW community of FP&A Controllers to make each other great and build on each other.

Responsibilities

The Financial Controller (FC) – Opex, oversees overall outsourced resources for the area with strong internal controls. This role is vital key member of area FC team and meaningfully participate in financial controller rhythms. Additionally, this role is responsible for orchestrating all external resources rhythms (Budget, Forecast, Closing, reviews) and ensuring end to end flow for the area while continuing to drive for standardization and simplification. FC - Opex is the key point of contact for external resources driven projects affecting the area and the key contact point for corporate headquarters in assessing implications of evolving business models.

You have a growth and an owner mindset, act as an entrepreneur that focus on business impact, and continuously learn and innovate. You have a capability to actively contribute and build strong collaboration within diverse and virtual teams. You are action oriented and able to build and deliver strong results through others beyond the team as well.

You drive digital transformation in the finance function towards data driven (Machine Learning) forward-looking insights. You also engage directly with customers and business partners.

You simplify and inspire through storytelling and excellent communication skills.

Microsoft values and ethical behavior are a corner stone in our culture.

Creating Clarity, Generating positive Energy & Delivering Success are the foundational Leadership Principles each and any of us embrace to maximize together work and impact.

People: As key member of area management P&L team, the FC- Opex controller is accountable to meaningfully participate in Financial controller team and rhythm. The FC is also a subject matter expert for Opex within the Area Finance community and is expected to contribute to the thought leadership of the community.

Partnership: Trusted advisor of the area leadership team for external resources and Opex. The FC builds partnerships across the area to deliver insight on external resources and opex insights, accurately forecast future results and Inform decision makers on optimize external resources spending.

• Collaborate with HR, M&O, Corp HQ team, Procurement, One finance, One Payroll and business. Responsible for ensuring that all parties deliver maximum value to the business and are continually improving operational effectiveness.
• Partner with key area and sub finance stakeholders. Leads the budgeting, forecasting, actual, variance and trend analysis for External resources and costs, ensuring insightful commentary provided to area leadership team and offering solutions in P&L optimization

Prioritization: The FC has primary responsibility for overseeing overall external resources management of the area. Additionally, this role is responsible for external resources key rhythms ensuring end to end flow while driving standardization and simplification.

• Key financial rhythms: Supervise/accountable for planning and forecasting External Resources, including RDO portion XR related - review trends, identify variance to Budget and one-off items, and inform decision makers of actions to be taken to optimize spending,
• External Resources management: Define a clear Area process to manage XR: onboarding / closing / updates, to enable Area resource optimization and accuracy of spend
• Collaboration: Collaborate with Global Procurement Group, Real Estate and Facilities and IT to streamline and simplified common processes and identify savings opportunity.
• Others: Additionally Opex Controller is responsible for 1) supervising and planning Area COGS (excluding HC related costs) 2) Non People expenses 3) Incentive Compensation accrual for RBI / PPI / CBI and 4) Other People (incl. DCP) CPH and costs) while monitoring, analyze trends, identifying variance to Budget/ Forecast, one-off items and causes of unexpected variances.

Protect: Ensuring proactive Risk Management through internal controls and compliance

• Collaborate with the Control & Compliance lead to embed compliance into the finance and business processes within the area.
• Oversees the systems and processes that deliver outcomes to meet regulatory requirements (including SOX) as well as advises on revisions to these systems and processes to adapt to changing legislative environments.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of active experience in similar role
• 5 years of experience in finance / finance leadership positions
• Statutory (Local GAAP, USGAAP) Accounting, Controlling, Tax knowledge
• Compliance and risk management experience
• Experience in Multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles is recommended
• Fluent in English
• BA/BS or MBA degree in Finance, Economics, CA/CPA preferred

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.