Asia Smb Finance Manager

In MCAPS Finance, we drive shareholder value in 50+ subsidiaries & 100+ 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 optimalreturns 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 Asia is a key enabler of the market IT growth through solid partnership with Governments, Enterprise, Small and Medium Corporates, as well as IT partners and consumer partners of the region. Microsoft Finance is a truly global finance team, and you will be part of the worldwide (WW) community to make each other great and build on each other. This role is part of the Asia Small Medium Enterprise & Channel Regional Finance Team (SME&C). This role will partner with the Asia Small Medium Business Lead (SMB) in the Region/Areas and is part of the Asia SMB LT team.

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**:
This role will be responsible for supporting and driving the SMB business across Asia covering 5 areas - ANZ, ASEAN, India, Japan & GCR, and be accountable to:

- Partner with SMB business to drive growth and increase market share.
- Partner with SMB lead to ensure accurate forecast and predictability of SMB business (quarterly and monthly updates).
- Demonstrate deep understanding of our partner ecosystem and leverage Cloud & Market/Compete analytics including consumption KPI’s, to land business insights (leveraging CSA Finance Managers) and drive business conversations.
- Bring insights by motion which drive measurable impact based on clear drivers for Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), Direct, Hosting.
- Leverage P&L manager and Financial controller on OPEX rigor in segment and productivity of resources.
- Partner with SMB lead to drive business reviews with SMB leaders in Areas and in Corp.

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years experience in revenue finance, financial analysis, finance business partnering or related field.
- ** OR** Master's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years experience in revenue finance, financial analysis, finance business partnering or related field.
- ** OR** equivalent experience.- Strong stakeholder management skills and business acumen, with ability to communicate ideas/analysis effectively and influence business decisions.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Ideally 10+ years of relevant experience with prior exposure to Asia portfolio coverage.
- Action oriented and able to build and deliver strong results through others beyond the team as well.
- Ability to drive digital transformation in the finance function towards data driven (e.g machine learning) forward-looking insights.
- High attention to details, analytical, and continuously looks to learn and innovate.