FP&A Manager MEA

Responsibilities:
• Partners with other support areas (Tax, Internal Audit) to drive compliance and controllership agenda. Anticipates and mitigates emerging statutory, tax, regulatory, and fiduciary risks. Inspires a compliance culture through openness, actions and decisions. Educates and promotes best practices and new developments. Influences and aligns senior leadership to prioritize compliance.
• Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
• Conceptualizes and designs new approaches to how financial data is collected and evaluated to impact across the organization and achieve Microsoft’s long-term goals.
• Provides financial perspective to senior business leaders to define and enable solutions in support of critical strategic and financial initiatives to maximize return on investment (ROI). Gains commitment with stakeholders to align strategy execution and mitigate risk. Empowers team to focus on driving profitable growth by being an integral part of the business decision making process.
• Leads effort to work with business partners to translate top-down targets to an accountable budget and to generate operational plans and strategy within their organization. Leads annual planning and forecasting processes. Reviews, analyzes, and prepares recommendations for preliminary and adjusted forecast cycles. Partners and solicits from senior business stakeholders. Orchestrates the rhythm of the business for area of responsibility including budgeting and forecasting.
• Understands the interconnections between data, information, and results and translates this into forward looking narratives and forecasts. Provides clarity and alignment with senior leaders. Implements creative ways to show patterns and draw conclusions to help drive decisions and clearly communicate findings. Generates actionable plans based on complex results, ambiguous findings, and multi-year time horizons. Coaches team to translate data into actionable insights.