Microsoft Consumer Sales Finance (CSF) works across all Microsoft products and services sold to Consumers and OEM partners, from Xbox to Surface, Windows, Office, Server and IOT. The CSF team is partnering with internal and external customers alike with the goal of maximizing revenue, market share, and mutual profit with our partners and ensuring the highest ethics and compliance in any action. As any finance organization in Microsoft, we: + Land the company vision around the transformation of our business, consumption and customer orientation in the subsidiaries and externally. + Drive strategic resource allocation and investments through local insights, ensuring optimal returns aligned with our worldwide strategy. + Build trust to lay the foundation of long-term growth from a partner and shareholder point of view in a compliant way. + Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of top performing teams while providing diverse career opportunities. EMEA Consumer Sales Finance (CSF) is a truly global finance team highly engaged in developing its talent and make them evolve in a moving environment. EMEA CSF spans all finance functions; we span working with Marketing to drive our product categories, with Supply and Ops to ensure we have the right product in the right places, Sales to understand our Partner Account mechanics and Channel Strategy, manage the organization’s Rhythm of Business and are custodians of the P&L. We chart our Growth path in existing businesses and in net new areas for the company, whilst prioritizing creating a more Inclusive Microsoft across our products, our culture and our marketing and every customer engagement. The EMEA Device Partner Sales (DPS) Category & SR Controller role is an excellent opportunity to be at the heart of a dynamic business in our region and EMEA. The role is asked to act as the CFO of the Device Partner Sales (DPS) business in selected subregions within EMEA (i.e. Western Europe & DACH) as well as covering one DPS product (i.e. Windows, Server etc.), driving results in line with commitments, ensuring cross-team visibility and engagement to realizing the opportunity of Microsoft’s OEM ecosystem play. Additionally, the role seeks to manage and review the financial performance of the business, identify and critically assess investment opportunities optimizing between margin & share, and shape the landing strategy with business partners. This role is also expected to drive growth, transformation and strategic initiatives across the business, in addition to deep, insightful analysis about the market, partners, trending and risks and opportunities as well as acting as guardian of the P&L. The role requires a strong financial acumen and stakeholder management capability. The Device Partner Sales (DPS) business partners with WW and local OEMs to drive and monetize device and services sell through across consumer, commercial and education customers. The business leverages solutions across Windows, Office, Server and IOT product portfolio to partner with OEMs and ODMs to build, market and sell innovative device portfolios and solutions. Lastly, the business team plays a critical role in accelerating device distribution and reseller transformation with leveraging our go to market programs designed to allow the Microsoft ecosystem to thrive. You have a growth mindset, act as an entrepreneur that drives business impact, and continuously learn and innovate. You have a capability to actively contribute and build strong collaboration within diverse and virtual teams. You are action oriented and able to build and deliver strong results through others beyond the team as well. You leverage existing technologies to drive digital transformation in the finance function towards data driven and forward-looking insights. You also engage directly with customers and business partners. You simplify and inspire through storytelling and excellent communication skills. Microsoft values and ethical behavior are a corner stone in our culture. 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** The role will partner across subregion DPS leadership teams (Subregion DPS Lead, Subregion Go To Market Lead, Sales and Sales Excellence leads) to maximize impact thru strategic business partnership and performance management, drive focus around key growth plans financial evaluation, design and profitability analysis. In addition, the role will play a critical role in driving alignment across Regional DPS Finance Lead and WW DPS Finance roles on market insights and performance management, acting as a feedback loop for the customer voice across our internal stakeholders. In addition, the role must minimize manual work and time spent on reporting thru continuous emphasis on transformation to Standardize Analytics within Regional and adopting WW initiatives/best practices (e.g. Promo Planning, Inventory & Supply Tracking , Partner Profitability, ROI, Centralized Budgeting, Performance Management Reporting). These will be achieved by leveraging and partnering across our WW DPS finance, WW CSF Finance , EMEA Devices & Creativity Finance teams and outsourced support teams. **The key responsibilities for the role are articulated below:** + **Performance management** **:** Deliver budget revenue, GM and CM according to quarterly accountability, ensuring due diligence across the team. Deep understanding of business (e.g., market, share, product, channel, customer) for the Subregion/Category/Account to support, drive forecast accuracy and articulate the story behind the numbers as the subject matter expert. Drive alignment between Finance Teams, DPS leadership teams, Subregions, and Sales Excellence around all finance rhythms. ​ + **Growth & Transformation:** Drive collaboration within organization and contribute to innovate new growth strategies/opportunities and help transform the business. Lead DPS team on financial modelling for critical business cases. Build capability on new growth areas and Performance metrics.​ + **Investment Optimization:** Utilization of Rev Adj and OPEXinvestments to maximize revenue & GM outcomes. Develop deeper understanding of investment ROI and profitability, including for key partners with optimal allocation of marketing and external resource OPEX. Manage the P&L to field operating model accountability and incremental Agility. Partner at regional level to maximize OPEX utilization across Regional DPS teams.​ + **Finance Operations:** Foster collaboration across Finance and Business communities to drive simplification and standardization to establish repeatable, sustainable, processes within/across regions. Create a strong Culture of Compliance by driving structured tone from the top. ​ + **Community:** Active contribution to the DPS Community and adoption of best practices to increase business partnership, drive standardization and contribute to the community’s goals utilizing WW projects and initiatives. + Be a trusted advisor for the EMEA and subregionleadership teams by adding value to decision making and running the business. + Provide independent analytics and insights to support growth and target attainment for DPS business across local revenue and device activation metrics, all the while understanding business drivers behind performance. + Driving accountability to Financial Targets and Business Scorecard accountabilities + Ability to drive impact across different stakeholder groups in a very dynamic space + Improve the accuracy, timeliness and relevance of reporting and insights + Be a catalyst for change in the approach to Investment decision making + Ability to understand the story behind the numbers and drive clarity of business performance and focus areas of importance, i.e. what is driving changes in business performance, rather than just describing what has happened. + Embrace simplification and standardization initiatives **Qualifications** + **Required/minimum qualifications** Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or related field AND 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 experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR equivalent experience. **Additional / Preferred qualifications** + Proficiency to communicate in German + Preferred :Advanced Excel skills, PowerBI skills, Track record of leveraging AI Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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