Anz Consumer Finance Lead

Microsoft Consumer, Channel, Sales and Marketing (CCSM) works across all Microsoft products and services sold to Consumers, from Xbox to Surface, Office and Windows.

CCSM Purpose is creating value with partners to market and sell innovative consumer solutions. Team is partnering with internal and external customers alike with the goal of maximizing revenue, market share, and mutual profit with our partners and ensuring the highest ethics and compliance in any action.

As any finance organization in Microsoft, we:

- 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.

Asia CCSM Finance is a truly global finance team highly engaged in developing its talent and make them evolve in a moving environment. Asia CCSM Finance spans all finance functions; we span working with Marketing to drive our product categories, with Supply and Ops to ensure we have the right product in the right places and with Sales to understand our Partner Account mechanics and Channel Strategy. We manage the organization’s RoB and are custodians of the P&L. We chart our Growth path in existing businesses and in net new areas for the company, whilst prioritizing creating a more Inclusive Microsoft across our products, our culture and our marketing and every customer engagement.

**Responsibilities**:
The ANZ Sub Region Finance Lead role spans across 4 key pillars: People, Partnership, Prioritization and Protect

**PEOPLE**
- 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.

**PARTNERSHIP**
- 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.

**PRIORITIZATION**
- 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.

**PROTECT**
- 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 partnerin