Group Finance Manager Vacancy at Microsoft Nigeria
Employment Nigeria
01-Jan-1970
NIGERIA , NIGERIA ,
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.
Job Title: Group Finance Manager
Job Location: Lagos
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’ experience in Finance with strong demonstration of (people) leadership, business partnering capabilities and controls & compliance culture.
- Fluent in English
- 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)
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