Group Finance Manager FC at Microsoft Nigeria

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Microsoft Nigeria is recruiting to fill the below position of:

Job Title: Group Finance Manager FC

Location: Lagos, NG
Job ID: 883632-145036
Job Category: Finance

Job Description
This role is responsible for delivering the key financial targets of the Subsidiary (Revenue and Profit & Loss account) in a consistent and compliant manner. It leads the Finance function while being a key contributor in the Subsidiary leadership team. It delivers business impact through insightful analysis to drive growth in market share/business and creates strong finance processes while being the guardian of compliance in the Subsidiary. The Subsidiary controller also represents Microsoft in various external finance communities.

Leadership/Management:
Attract, develop and retail talent: As a people manager, the Subsidiary controller is expected to:

• Attract top diverse finance talent and live the philosophy of “hire better than yourself”
• Invest in professional growth of the team through robust development plans and coaching
• Hire and promote diversity in the team
• Retain, grow and reward talent by showing career paths aligned with personal aspirations
• Deliver results through teamwork and collaboration, including the virtual teams like procurement, RE&F, One Finance etc
• Role model the Microsoft values and create a ‘culture and climate’ where individuals and teams can realize their full potential
• Contribute & impact Subsidiary leadership, Regional finance and WW finance impact
• Act as a trusted leader to the local Subsidiary leadership team to drive a culture of growth and accountability
• Partner with the Subsidiary leadership to drive and land change to leverage external market opportunities; work closely with the country manager and Marketing & Operations lead
• Actively contribute to the area finance leadership team and WW finance initiatives
• Engage in external communities (e.g. customers, partners, forums, etc) to represent Microsoft, evangelize its products and gain insights

Business Insight: promote a culture of effective growth resulting in gains in market share in a predictable and profitable manner through best practice adoption and being the trusted advisor for your business.

• Provide insights on opportunities for gaining market share by beating competition and growing faster than the market; align resources to capture the same
• Partner with the Marketing and Operations lead during Mid-Year Review, including driving long and medium term strategies to achieve the Subsidiary vision
• Deliver the Net revenue and Contribution margin metric on the Subsidiary scorecard
• Drive learnings through benchmarking by adopting the “Growth productivity framework” and implementing areas to make your Subsidiary best in class
• Be the productivity champion in the Subsidiary sharing insights and influencing implementation on areas for improvement
• Highlight red flags to the local leadership and contribute to brainstorming different solutions to solve the problem
• Drive impact through analyzing and aligning key WW metrics from various scorecards

Business Excellence: This role drive efficiency of finance processes in the Subsidiary to deliver annual financial targets through improvements to achieve simplification, accuracy and productivity.

• Own the Operational mechanism of Profit & Loss
• Deliver on the business cycles around budget, forecast, month close, monthly regional reviews, etc. Ensure data integrity in all operational matters.
• Create impact through investment trade off decision making, Quarterly financial accountability and delivering contribution margin
• Own partnering with Global Procurement Group, Real Estate & Facilities (RE&F), financial compensation analysts, One Finance, Operations Centers, Credit & Collections, IT, etc
• Complete the P&L sign off activities (monthly sign offs, SOX 302 quarterly surveys, balance sheet reconciliation, etc)
• Drive utilization of Core Finance to minimize the use of local reporting as a means to improve productivity
• Ensure meeting all local statutory and tax requirements

Controls and Compliance: The Subsidiary controller is the lead for driving a culture of compliance and ensuring adherence to Microsoft’s Standard of business conduct.

• Drive awareness in the Subsidiary about Microsoft policies and create the urgency to always be compliant; inject compliance into the Subsidiary DNA starting from a strong tone from the leadership team
• Achieve targeted scores on Quarterly compliance scorecard and lead rhythms like Compliance committee, Compliance Advisory board, etc
• Establish a sustainable compliance culture measured through “Green” internal audit results and effective implementations of audit findings

Requirements:

• 10+ years’ expulture.
• Fluent in Englerience in Finance with strong demonstration of (people) leadership, business partnering capabilities and controls & compliance cish

Education, qualifications, training

• Degree in Economics or Business
• CPA
• MBA preferable

Experience or skills required

• Seasoned Finance professional
• Significant experience in Finance Management at a senior level
• Proven track record of achieving results through influence where no direct line authority exists
• Proven track record of building a professional Finance team and supported successful careers of High Talents and High Potentials
• Past Demonstration on results achievement and drive change
• Subsidiary controller role experience

Characteristics

• Business acumen
• Strong analytical and conceptual abilities
• Well refined technical finance and strategic skills
• Team player
• Cross Cultural sensitivity
• Strong interpersonal awareness and emotional intelligence skills
• Influencing skills and good in ‘holding other people accountable’ (corporate and subsidiaries)

Application Closing Date
Not Stated

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should
Click here to apply online