MICROSOFT Licensing Specialist

Accenture PLC; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC is seeking a Software Licensing Specialist to join the Software Engineering team supporting the SAM_India Ops. The role focuses on Microsoft licensing, including product terms, renewals, and cloud/on-premises licensing across global environments.

Collaboration with cross-functional teams and strong communication are essential. Ideal candidates will analyze entitlement reports and usage data, read contracts, and create detailed license usage summaries.

Qualifications

• 5 years of Microsoft licensing experience or equivalent
• Ability to interpret Product Terms and licensing agreements
• Experience in renewals for Select Plus, Enterprise, and MPSA
• Strong understanding of cloud/on-prem licensing and BYOL requirements
• Analytical skills to create entitlement and usage reports
• Comfort working with global, cross-time zone teams

Responsibilities

• Create detailed license usage reports by analyzing entitlement data
• Prepare and compare entitlements to deployment data
• Read and interpret contracts, MLS, and CPS reports for detailed summaries
• Support renewals and licensing negotiations with stakeholders
• Coordinate with global teams to produce accurate license dashboards

Skills

Microsoft licensing

Renewals management

Cross-functional teamwork

Communication

Tools

Flexera

ServiceNow

Azure/Microsoft Portals

Job description

Client & Project: We are seeking a new talent to join the Software Engineering team where you will have the opportunity to collaborate in the project SAM_India Ops. The client is Cross Client, a company that provides diverse services across multiple industries, focusing on delivering tailored solutions to meet complex business needs.

Experience Required 5 years of Microsoft licensing experience, including creating full Effective License Positions Strong skills and has deep expertise in:

• Using and interpreting Microsoft’s current and past Product Terms
• Managing Microsoft’s many licensing agreements, including Select Plus, Enterprise, and MPSA, with deep expertise in how to approach and complete renewals for these agreements
• Navigating Microsoft’s portals (Azure, M365, Visual Studio, etc) and read usage reports from these portals
• Licensing Microsoft products deployed both on-prem and in cloud, with knowledge of BYOL requirements for different cloud providers
• Understanding virtual technology terms, reports, and set-up to create overviews of server software deployment
• Reading and interpreting Contracts, MLS and CPS reports, beyond the overviews, to create detailed entitlement summaries
• Create detailed license usage reports by analyzing entitlement reports and comparing the total available entitlement to software deployment data

Ability to seamlessly work on a global, cross-functional team located in different time zones Strong communication skills Extensive experience in using Microsoft Office Suite, especially Microsoft Excel Nice to Have Experience working with and configuring different Industry SAM Tools like Flexera or ServiceNow Audit support experience Contract negotiation experience Licensing knowledge of other publishers, including Adobe, IBM, Oracle, SAP, and m

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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