Group Finance Manager, Japan GPS

Microsoft Finance Organization

In MCAPS Finance, we drive shareholder value in 50+ subsidiaries & 100+ Sales Locations and carry

the local accountability for the financials as well as statutory and compliance matters across all

Microsoft commercial segments and products. We:

• Land the company vision around the transformation of our business 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. Key focus is on New Business and consumption with an industry and workload perspective.
• Build trust to lay the foundation of long-term growth from a customer and shareholder point of view in a compliant way.
• Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of high performing impactful teams while providing diverse career opportunities.

Microsoft Asia is one of the 3 regions of Microsoft Commercial Business and covers 6 Areas: ANZ,

India, Greater China Region, Japan, ASEAN, and Korea. All 6 areas of Asia have been a key enabler of

the market IT growth through solid partnership with Governments, Enterprise, Small and Medium

Corporates, as well as IT partners and consumer partners of the region. Microsoft Finance is a truly

global finance team, and you will be part of the WW Finance community for Global Partner Solutions

[GPS].

• This role will be responsible for supporting and driving the Global Partner Solutions (GPS) Team within Japan – it is a unique and exciting opportunity for deep business partnership with multiple stakeholders, both internal and external and will have a blend of rhythm-of-the-business (RoB) activities and analytics to drive business decision making.
• This role also has an expanded scope that supports the Asia Regional Lead responsible for managing the GSI Partner Channel, responsibilities include understanding the health of the business, understanding key levers to analyse and drive actionable insights to influence outcomes. In addition, this role will cover the end to end Custom Incentive Agreement governance framework for Asia.
• This role will become an expert on all aspects of our Partner ecosystem, including different partner types and the competitive landscape.
• The role will be required to perform analysis on financial performance and investment ROI and provide clear actionable insights for the business to take to realise potential.
• The role will also have a unique opportunity to represent Microsoft externally as we support the GPS Team to enable and drive our partner ecosystem.
• This role is part of the Asia SMC and GPS Regional Finance Team. The team is a diverse and inclusive team, with team members based across Asia.

You have a growth and an owner mindset, act as an entrepreneur that focuses on 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 also engage directly with customers and business partners. You simplify and inspire through storytelling and excellent communication skills.

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.