Director of Finance, Functional Marketing_

Come join an awesome team at the forefront of Microsoft’s transformation and leadership with AI! We are currently looking for a **Director of Finance, Functional Marketing** to lead the Functional Marketing Finance team. As the leader of the Functional Marketing Finance team, you will be at the center of the transformation for our customer acquisition through focused and effective digital media strategies through deep partnership with our Functional marketing teams including the Global Demand Center (GDC), Events, Digital Media, and Communications. You will be responsible for setting vision and execution across planning, analytics, insight & Return on Investment (ROI), prioritization, optimization, and enabling deep collaboration across cross functional teams including marketing, sales, product, and functional support teams.The Functional Marketing Finance team is part of the Marketing & Consumer Sales Finance team and the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Finance organization. This team provides finance support & analysis and partners closely with stakeholders to drive strategic prioritization, thought leadership, and resource trade-off decisions with the goal of increasing marketing investment ROI. This leadership will also be responsible for leading by example and creating best in class culture that enables team members to accelerate their career growth and drive impactful outcomes aligned to Microsoft’s strategy.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**+ Lead individual team members, providing coaching, priority setting, support, and leadership to team members to drive business growth, impact, and career growth+ Set the vision and executionforFunctional Marketingfinance team includingbusiness partnership/collaboration,investmentframeworks/prioritization, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), analytics, and recommendations to increase ROI and re-investment opportunities+ Drive data informed decision making and systematic solutions, communicate effectively with executives, and collaborate well across all levels of the commercial and marketing organization across forums+ Directs and coaches' teams as they leverage relationships with customers and partners. Oversees complex partnerships with stakeholders and customers (mainly internal). Ensures that organization and teams remain customercentric.+ Directs, performs, and reviews analysis and research of present and future financial performance, financial plans. Prepares, summarizes, and drives recommendations.+ Guides others to contribute to budget, forecast, reporting, closing, and recurring business review processes.+ Manages the rhythm of the business for area of responsibility including monthly close, recurring business review preparation, and budgeting.+ Ensures team is generating relevant and actionable insights to move business forward. Collaborates and empowers others to ensure execution of plans and accountability for results.+ Shares business insights and advances solutions and action plans to drive business and leader goals and short-term accountabilities.+ Provides credible insights into industry benchmarks and customer trends, performance improvements, and growth. Facilitates to resolve complex issues. Guides team to focus on driving profitable growth and shareholder return by being an integral part of the business decision making process.+ Conceptualizes and designs innovative approaches to how financial data is collected and evaluated to impact future outcomes and decisions.+ Applies understanding of the broader internal Microsoft context, as well as external factors, to offer solutions to ensure organizational objectives are met.Considers competing views and alterative solutions when formulating recommendations for financial plans and forecasts. Shares business expertise to help others implement and execute their goals.+ Works with Microsoft experts to identify and leverage advanced tools and technology to aid in achieving greater production, autonomy, and goal attainment. Drives improvements in data management through automation.+ Understands the interconnections between data, information, and results and translates this into forward looking narratives and forecasts. Provides clarity and alignment with leaders. Implements creative ways to show patterns and draw conclusions to help drive decisions and clearly communicate findings.+ Generates actionable plans based on complex results, ambiguous findings, and multi-year time horizons. Coaches team to translate data into a simplified and engaging message with actionable insights. Facilitates a shared understanding and awareness of business partner situations.+ Drives the right tone from executive leadership and ensures strict adherence and understanding of Microsoft policies on risk and compliance.+ Influences leadership to ensure compliance is a top priority and modeled throughout the organization. Directs team and holds others accountable to ensure financial control processes, policies, instruments, and procedures are executed. Guides team and encourages others to identify and share risks to compliance and take steps to mitigate.+ Drives a compliant culture through actions and decisions to instill trust. Advocates, educates, and promotes best practices and new developments. Champions Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards. Advances key compliance initiatives.Other+ Embody our Culture (icrosoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (icrosoft.com/us/en/culture)**Qualifications****Required Qualifications:**+ Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 10+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field+ OR equivalent experience.+ 1+ year(s) experience managing direct reports.**Preferred Qualifications:**+ People management experience with demonstrated success+ Polished interpersonal skills and verbal and written communication skills+ Demonstrated drive including ability to effectively manage multiple projects, dynamically shift prioritization, operate with both attention to detail and big picture focus, and work effectively under deadlines+ Ability to collaborate and be comfortable dealing with ambiguity, including influencing across multiple complex organizations+ Ability to lead and influence business partners through executive maturity and balanced self-awarenessFinancial Analysis M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $129,200 - $273,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $162,000 - $299,400 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:icrosoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-payMicrosoft will accept applications for the role until September 12, 2024Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (icrosoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .