Commercial Finance Manager, Enterprise

Are you ready to lead financial excellence and drive business growth in Sweden?

 

Our finance team in Stockholm is the backbone of our business, providing unwavering support to our teams and customers alike. With a keen eye on the financial health of our operations, we empower our business units to make informed decisions, ensuring that every strategy is backed by solid financial analysis. We are committed to delivering exceptional value, not just through our financial acumen, but by fostering strong relationships that drive mutual success and growth.

 

As the Enterprise Finance Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our success. Partnering closely with the Sweden Enterprise Commercial & Public Sector Leads and teams, you’ll deliver industry and account plans, influence deal shaping, and engage with cloud economics—all while ensuring exceptional business performance.

 

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

Prioritize

• Performs and reviews analysis of present and future financial performance, financial plans (e.g., expected returns, resource allocation, pricing, investment opportunities) and economic transactions (e.g., customer deals, commercial partnerships, acquisitions, etc.). Prepares and summarizes recommendations.
• Works directly with business partners to translate top-down targets to an accountable budget for each group. Completes and reviews analysis, modelling, and research to support preliminary and adjusted forecast cycles. Partners and solicits insight from business and commercial stakeholders.
• Delivers results through tracking performance, report accuracy, and partnering with business leaders to ensure execution of plans and accountability for results.  Manages the rhythm of the business for area of responsibility including monthly close, recurring business review preparation, and budgeting. Generates relevant and actionable insights to drive the business forward.

Partnership

• Shares business insights and advances solutions and action plans to drive business and commercial leader goals and short-term accountabilities. Provides credible insights into industry benchmarks and consumer trends, performance improvements, and growth. Facilitates to resolve complex issues. Manages and executes processes through engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
• Applies understanding of the broader Microsoft context to offer solutions to ensure organizational objectives are met. Develops and manages strategies to proactively mitigate, or reactively address, potential adverse effects of macroeconomic and/or geopolitical risks. Articulates a comprehensive view of financial results and approaches leaders can implement based on deep understanding of business partner and counterpart work context and situation.  Considers competing views and alternative solutions when formulating recommendations for financial plans and forecasts.
• Conceptualizes and designs new approaches to how financial data is collected and evaluated to impact future outcomes and decisions. 
• Drives improvements in data management through automation. Applies understanding of advanced technology to accomplish business goals and to provide greater depth of analysis. 
• Understands the interconnections between data, information, and results and translates this into forward looking narratives and forecasts. Provides clarity and alignment with senior leaders. Implements creative ways to show patterns and draw conclusions to help drive decisions and clearly communicate findings.  Generates actionable plans based on complex results, ambiguous findings, and multi-year time horizons. Articulates understanding and awareness of business partner situation.

 

Protect

• Drives the right tone from executive leadership and ensures strict adherence  and understanding of Microsoft policies on risk and compliance. Influences leadership to ensure compliance is a top priority and modelled throughout the organization.  Drives a compliant culture through actions and decisions to instil trust. Advocates, educates, and promotes best practices and new developments.  Encourages asking questions and identifying risks to compliance. Champions Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards. Advances key compliance initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field AND solid / many years of post-graduate financial