Country Finance Lead Philippines

In MCAPS Finance, we're driving shareholder value in 54 subsidiaries & 120 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 ASEAN is multi-billion-dollar operating unit that serves 6 diverse & vibrant sub-regions: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, and Vietnam. As part of the greater Asia region, we work with a vast network of partners to enable digital transformation of commercial & public sector customers in their quest achieve more.

The Asean Finance team partners closely with the sales & marketing teams to identify growth opportunities, accelerate revenue, optimize resources allocation, nurture a strong compliance culture, and deliver upon statutory & tax local requirements.

The team is structured in 4 main groups: Compliance, Stat&Tax, Country Finance, and Area HQ Finance, and its members are geographically distributed across all Asean countries.

This is a very exciting role in the ASEAN Finance team. In this capacity, you will be the member of the Philippines Subsidiary Leadership Team and the finance business partner for the Philippines Country Manager.

You will partner closely to execute on their strategy/growth agenda, nurture a culture of compliance and drive the operational rigor across the sub-region.

You will deliver these outcomes by partnering very closely with your finance colleagues (ASEAN Country finance team, S&T team, Area HQ Fiannce and Asia Finance). As such, you are expected to play a key role in facilitating cross team collaboration.

You will also be the closest to our customers, as such customer centricity is paramount. You are expected to be on the frontline with our commercial team delivering the value of our Microsoft solutions through direct engagement, such as covering the "Finance room of the house" on deal investments/negotiations and delivering our Modern Finance story with our customers

Culture and Behavior

• You have a growth mindset. You have a desire to continuously learn and innovate, and you also support others to do the same.
• You cultivate Microsoft's culture of Respect, Integrity, and Accountability in everything you do.
• You fully embrace Microsoft's leadership principles of Creating Clarity, Generating Energy & Delivering Success.
• You nurture a collaborative & diverse culture. You respect and appreciate individuals with different backgrounds and ensure that all voices are heard.
• You are action-oriented and able to build and deliver strong results through others.

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.

Responsibilities
The Country Finance Lead is the Finance Partner to the Philippines Country Manager and is a key member of the Country Senior Leadership Team. The successful candidate must have a growth mindset, act as an entrepreneur that drives business impact, and continuously learn and innovate. You have a capability to actively contribute and build strong collaboration within diverse and virtual teams. You display a can-do attitude and able to lead projects and processes improvements initiatives autonomously.

Your core responsibilities are focused around our four key pillars:

Culture

• Foster a Microsoft Company owner mindset. Develop your own capabilities to bring deeper internal and external awareness of customers, competitors and industries.
• Maximise the potential of our finance organization by working effectively beyond reporting lines and geographies.
• Be the functional lead of country dedicated finance resources, whilst enabling the success of the wide Asia/ASEAN finance teams supporting the local subsidiary.

Quality

• Drive longer term planning, set strategies and align to resource allocation for maximum return & long term growth in the local market aligned to propensity models and targeted share gains.
• Continually monitor resource allocation, ROI and drive strong opex execution on the ground (e.g. ECIF)
• Ensure revenue accountabilities and controllable costs are met on a quarterly basis and deliver performance goals across the key solution areas.

AI Transformation

• Leverage deep actionable insights to drive topline revenue, product adoption and value delivered to our customers.
• Engage externally directly with BDMs and Partners around Digital Transformation, and connect MS solutions to customer priorities within different industries to help land customer wins.
• Drive programatic collaboration with key functions to support deal constructs. Focus on customer aquisition, retention, and lifetime value.

Security

• Compliance & Security leadership & tone, monitor and support management's responsibility to mitigate risk with special focus on preventing corruption, unethical sales, spend management, privacy and concession & discounts.
• Accountable for Statutory, Tax and regulatory compliance for Microsoft Thailand and Vietnam entities.

Key Indicators of Success

• Strong & open partnership with ASEAN and Asia HQ teams (Finance, Business)
• Leverage insights from area/region and drive strong execution in all Asean markets.
• Coach and mentor finance peers and country sales team members
• Strong culture of compliance in every geo, including S&T requirements.
• Collaborate to others' success beyond ASEAN

Qualifications
Required 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

• Strong analytical skills and attention to details

Preferred Qualifications;

• 10+ years of experience in finance positions. Previous business partnership roles in subsidiaries/areas is a differentiator
• Ability to operate and thrive in a fluid/uncertain environment.
• Ability to influence, establish credibility, trust, and partnership at all levels of the organization.
• Fluency in English

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.