Overview
Microsoft Finance organization purpose
Microsoft Customers & Partners Solutions (MCAPS) Finance drives shareholder value across subsidiaries and carries local accountability for financial performance, statutory and compliance matters across segments and products. The function lands the company vision around business transformation, consumption, customer orientation and AI-led growth; drives strategic resource allocation through local insights; builds trust with customers and shareholders in a compliant way; and empowers finance talent to operate as part of high-performing, diverse teams.
Microsoft UKI is a dual subsidiary (UK & Ireland) area within EMEA. The UKI Finance team partners with sales, customer success, services, business groups and marketing teams to drive sustainable growth, governance and actionable business insight. The UKI Commercial Finance Director leads the Commercial Finance team at the centre of the UKI finance leadership rhythm, connecting the total UKI commercial business across the account (ATU), specialist (STU) and Customer Success (CSU) motions, while staying connected to EMEA, worldwide finance, SE&O, compliance, Deal Desk and product-controller communities to land consistent, high-quality execution.
The Customer Success Finance Manager partners across the MCAPS sales teams (ATU, STU and CSU) to drive business impact and support growth. The role ensures that all finance rhythms are run efficiently, effectively and to a high standard, and combines people leadership with individual-contributor delivery in direct support of the UK & Ireland CFO.
The role business-partners with the STU lead and their leadership team, providing finance insight across all areas, and influences across senior stakeholders. It stays closely connected to the wider finance team and to adjacent functions — including compliance and Deal Desk — and beyond into the CE lead and SE&O. The role is accountable for driving frontier finance through the evolving use of AI across the team, to deliver improved insight and a faster pace to action.
Responsibilities
Business partnership and growth
Guide others to contribute to budget, reporting and recurring business-review processes, and manage the rhythm of business for the area of responsibility, coaching the team to leverage relationships and support complex commercial negotiations
Finance partnership and community
Finance excellence — close, forecast and budget
Impact future outcomes by designing new approaches to collecting and evaluating financial data, using automation to improve data management, and finding creative ways to surface patterns and draw conclusions that communicate findings clearly.
Ensure strict adherence to, and understanding of, Microsoft policies on risk and compliance, and make compliance a top priority for leadership; educate and promote best practice and new developments, and encourage others to mitigate compliance risks.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND demonstrable experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field, OR Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND demonstrable experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field,
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Demonstrable experience in finance positions, with relevant analytical skills and business acumen.
Bachelor’s degree (or Master’s degree) in a related field AND demonstrable experience of financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience, or equivalent experience.
Financial Analysis IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is £ 79,700.00 - £ 133,900.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/united-kingdom-corporate-pay.html
Financial Analysis IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across Ireland is € 101,100.00 - € 151,700.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/corporate-pay/ireland-corporate-pay.html
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process.
