Consumer Sales Gaming Controller

The Consumer Sales Caming Controller role is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future, drive change, and be at the center of the action. If you are looking for exciting business and finance challenges, and an opportunity to make an impact supporting the Gaming team and the Gaming sales strategy and execution, then this role is for you.

The Consumer Sales Gaming Controller will work in close partnership with stakeholders across the Consumer Sales Organization (CSO). This role will collaborate across Microsoft, engaging with Engineering Finance, Micosoft Cloud Innovations and Operations, Microsoft Consumer Business Finance, Engineering and Marketing teams. This position will help drive the strategy, analytics and insight into the Gaming Content Portfolio on all first-party Storefronts.

This is a high impact position with the opportunity to deliver direct and significant impact to the Gaming and Microsoft P&L (Profit & Loss). The position has a high level of exposure to Experiences, Devices, and Marketing (EDM) Finance leadership team. It requires financial and business acumen as well as analytical and 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.

Responsibilities:

• Financial P&L Management: Lead Key Financial ROB that includes working closely with many different work stream owners to meet P&L objectives and report results thru close, MBR, and Quarterly reviews and Earnings.
• Financial Reporting & Analysis: Analyze and present executive quality financial results performance to leadership teams. This includes monitoring P&L trends, key drivers, revenue, and resource investments against plan/forecast assumptions.
• Proven ability to look beyond the numbers. Effective at cultivating diverse data outlets and connecting the information into a cohesive qualitative story. Ability to objectively formulate opinions and defend viewpoints with business partners instead of just reporting out what partners think.
• Challenge existing norms or courses of action, facilitating fully informed decision making. Creates constructive friction by asking the right questions and clarifying assumptions.
• Establish an in-depth knowledge of our products to support detailed financial analysis
• Perform ad hoc financial analysis and modeling
• Delivers Results through Teamwork: Work through others and across teams, establishing high standards of performance and creating a climate of mutual accountability that delivers expected business results.
• Helps institute balanced decision making, driving the business to identify both risk and opportunity. Acts as a good steward of the business by acting as the conscience of the company and approaches problems with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Does not just work within established process but recognizes opportunities to fundamentally improve how we operate and acts as an agent of change, using both formal and informal authority to mobilize others.

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field
  • OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience working in the Gaming industry.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 12+ years of 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 AND 8+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.
• 3+ years work experience in matrix-based organization.
• 3+ years work experience in the technology or software industry.

Financial Analysis IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $115,000 - $200,300 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $146,200 - $219,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Aug 21, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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