Microsoft Hiring for ANZ Consumer Finance Lead Job at Sydney Full Time

• Land the company vision around the transformation of our business, consumption 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.
• Build trust to lay the foundation of long-term growth from a partner and shareholder point of view in a compliant way.
• Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of top performing teams, while providing diverse career opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate all three Microsoft Manager Principles across Teams & Geos as a Leader of the CCSM Organization.
• Foster the CCSM culture across both the Finance and Business Teams in line with Microsoft values, focusing specifically on respect, inclusion, diversity, empathy, wellbeing, accountability and integrity.
• Develop the CCSM Finance Organization through a “Learn in all and growth mindset” culture with targeted and structured learning schemes.
• Develop the Organization and Leaders of tomorrow through structured succession planning and Career / development plans to import and export Talent across Teams / Geos.
• Take a leadership role within the WW CCSM Finance Community, the Regional CCSM Finance Team as well as the local LT Business Team.

• Be a trusted advisor and build strong working relationships with the Asia business leadership team.
• Partner with ANZ LT to deliver the Topline revenue, bottom line Accountability margin and scorecard metrics.
• Support the leadership team to make balanced decisions based on clear, actionable insights. Provide clarity on Asia performance and be the voice of the customer to Redmond in an efficient and insightful manner. Drive the investment decisions in line with the market dynamics to de-risk the business as well as drive incremental growth.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of big growth and transformation ideas in the region to meet long term revenue aspirations of the region.
• Be comfortable challenging business partners and existing norms or courses of action, to drive better business outcomes.
• Represent Microsoft externally by showcasing the value of Microsoft technologies to our customers and partners.

• Drive an efficient, impactful and robust finance rhythms.
• Effectively cultivate diverse data inputs across partners, market, inventory, share, price, product (external and internal) to provide clear performance storytelling, investment returns and drive forecast accuracy.
• Focus on driving profitable growth by identifying growth levers, drive cost efficacy, and be an integral part of the business decision-making process.
• Drive a strong tone on simplification, standardization of processes and fully leverage central assets including WW finance teams and outsourced vendors.

• Set the tone that Control & Compliance is the #1 priority across everything we do.
• Partner closely with Business & Finance Teams on risk management and any potential gap related to Control & Compliance.
• Educate the Business Teams on all Control & Compliance matters and infuse a culture of compliance across cycles & processes.

Partnership with Commercial Business

• Ensure ANZ Consumer Finance team operates within the agreement outlined for supporting the Commercial ANZ Surface business.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Accounting, Finance or related field AND 6+ years of financial analysis or finance work experience.
• In-depth knowledge and exposure to ANZ region.
• Strong business partnering ability and commercial acumen.
• Strong skills in communications, stakeholder management and collaboration.

• Preferably 10+ years of relevant finance experience, ideally in Services or FMCG space.
• Experience in People/Team management.
• Experience in Compliance and risk management.