Cfo - Apac

In Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Finance, we’re driving shareholder value in 57 subsidiaries & 117 Sales Locations and carry the local accountability for the financial as well as statutory and compliance matters across 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.

**Responsibilities**:

- The CFO is responsible for the MCAPS Finance function within APAC, with responsibilities across Financial Planning and Analysis, Commercial Finance, Controls & Compliance and Stat&Tax. This role has responsibility over Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam and the rest of South East Asia countries. Reporting directly to the CFO of MCAPS Asia, this role is part of the MCAPS Asia Finance Leadership Team, making key decisions around people, business processes and business impact.

This role is also the key business partner for the APAC Area VP and forms part of the APAC Leadership Team accountable for delivering business results for APAC whilst operating within Microsoft company policies and local laws. You must create a clear financial strategy for the country that aligns to business goals and drive results consistent with the goal.

To be successful in this role, you must be able to attract, hire, develop and retain the very best finance talent from the market as well as internally from within Microsoft. You must ensure that you appropriately prioritize your time and that of the finance team to drive tangible frontline business impact by building and implementing business strategies to accelerate profitable growth whilst also ensuring the finance team still delivers core processes and rhythms across the region. A main deliverable for the CFO is to build organizational capability with strong succession plans inclusive of diverse talent.

Key accountabilities and activities:
1. People
- Build an organization stronger than today through attracting, developing and sharing the right people for the right roles.
- Build an agile finance organization that can evolve over time to meet changing business needs and grow with our business
- Balance corporate skill sets while exercising local autonomy for effective decision making
- Act as a talent scout in the local market to acquire the best long-term talent for Microsoft (leverage college graduates, MBA, Interns, etc.)
- Drive management excellence providing meaningful priority setting and performance review for each employee, with proper recognition of people using the rewards available
- Provide appropriate coaching, development and performance feedback for Finance leaders, working closely with the APAC Leadership Team to ensure the appropriate attention
- Drive solid development plans for each employee, leveraging and promoting the Finance Academy and Learning weeks as well as specific programs for high performers
- Develop a culture oriented around active participation and solid improvement plans to achieve a great place to work for the team and strong employee satisfaction results

2. Business Impact

Area CFOs actively contribute to enhanced business profitably and maximize shareholder value for the company.
- Own the performance management process from local strategic priorities setting, to target setting, budgeting, forecasting, actual, variance and trend analysis
- Deliver strong financial support on strategic ad-hoc studies (partnership, business case, investment scenarios)
- Drive profitability & productivity using benchmarking activities, deep dive into business drivers and KPIs, provide guidance, challenge plans, offer solutions, and ensure full buy in from local management
- Ensure effective communication and understanding of the financial & business performance, and drive the decision-making process
- Ensure good allocation and management of local resources (ROI) to drive effective profitable growth and drive shareholder value
- Participate in and influence business decisions by fully understanding the business strategy, business model, organization and market
- Contribute to business development and deal validation and lead the local activities for post-acquisition integration

3. Finance & Business process excellence

Area CFOs are focused on ensuring that both the basic financial control mechanisms are in place in the team as well as driving budget efficiencies, executing financial processes and increasing business pr