Finance Manager-Jobs in Südafrika

Partnership:

• Drive ACR growth in the Geo through deep ACR analytics and provide actionable insights to Segment Finance managers and CFOs.
• Provide insights on ACR performance by understanding growth trajectories for key customers.
• Leverage IAP depth on Commit & Complete for insightful analysis to the business.
• Act as the key finance contact for HQ finance, responsible for finance content for ACR ROB, Planning & Execution, including budget, forecast, and outlook.
• Drive insights, analytics, and actions on key ACR motions and priorities for Africa, including Migrations / Data & AI and MACC to ACR.
• Utilize corporate models and analytics, and CEMA community best practices to provide actionable insights through segment controllers and CFOs.

Prioritization:

• Accountable for finance content related to ACR ROB, Planning & Execution, including budget, forecast, and ongoing insights.
• Responsible for providing executive insights on deviations from forecasts based on drivers and trends.

Controls & Compliance:

• Ensure compliance with STU & CSU LT, focusing on consumption.

Culture & Behavior:

• Adopt a growth mindset, act entrepreneurially to drive business impact, and promote continuous learning and innovation.
• Contribute actively and build strong collaboration within diverse and virtual teams.
• Drive digital transformation in finance towards data-driven, forward-looking insights.
• Engage directly with customers and business partners.
• Simplify and inspire through storytelling and excellent communication skills.
• Uphold Microsoft values and ethical behavior as core to our culture.

• Provision of insightful analysis based on analytical frameworks and opportunity pipeline leveraging IAP standards.
• Generation of forward-thinking ACR scenarios into actionable insights for the sales team.
• Accuracy of ACR forecasts.
• Progress as change agents towards a move to consumption.
• Community success and positive feedback from CFOs and AFM community.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field, with post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience, OR
• Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field, with solid post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience, OR
• Equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.
• Fluent in English.
• BA/BS or MBA degree in Finance, Economics; CPA/CA preferred.

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