Strategy Director, Finance, 803036 Job
Job Field: Office Jobs
Location: REDMOND, WA
Salary: $-
Job Type: Part Time
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<td align="left"><font style="font-size: 100%;">Job Category:Finance<BR>Location:Redmond, WA, US<BR>Job ID:803036-86325<BR>Division:Microsoft Office Division<BR><BR><BR>Director / Sr. Manager of MBD Strategy<BR><BR>Interested in shaping the future of the $23B Microsoft Business Division by working with its business leaders to provide strategic recommendations on our biggest challenges? The MBD strategy team helps drive, assess and prioritize the long term planning and strategic direction for the Office and MBS divisions. You will also partner with the product management, marketing, and planning teams to build GTM, product, economic and financial models for each of the product areas. The ideal candidate for this job is a strategic thinker who excels at framing problems and building the right analytical rigor into addressing them. This position involves significant exposure to senior management across the UC, Office, SharePoint and MBS businesses. Consequently, this role requires someone who is highly motivated combining exceptional strategic thinking, superior executive communication skills, project management and managerial experience, and quantitative skills.<BR><BR>Flexible on leveling for the right candidate; correct skillset and experiences are the focus.<BR><BR>Responsibilities:<BR>1) Business strategy: You will provide pro-active thought leadership and lead projects with senior management to establish a credible, implementable, and sustainable business strategy that creates superior value for MBD. You will also support annual business reviews and tactical initiatives that cut across multiple Microsoft groups, identify new opportunities for growth, and evolve strategic thinking on the future of information work.<BR>2) Portfolio evaluation: You will help manage the MBD product portfolios and provide frameworks for decisions that affect investments, acquisitions and divestments<BR>3) Deals: You will work with the key business leaders within the division to drive the strategy development and focused execution of M&A, Strategic Partnerships, and Licensing deals.<BR>4) Strategy team leadership: You will be responsible not only for managing multiple analyst staffed projects in parallel, but also for guiding and teaching analyst through their rigorous analytical work and ongoing development.<BR><BR>Skills/ Qualifications Required:<BR>5 years of work experience from a top tier strategy consulting firm, corporate strategy, strategic marketing, corporate finance, corporate M&A, or top tier investment bank. Software industry experience preferred.<BR>Significant business management experience, with a strategic management consulting perspective<BR>Proven strong project management capabilities; comfortable working under deadlines and producing key deliverables.<BR>Demonstrated strength and abilities in analysis, planning and developing strategy; able to teach others these skills.<BR>MBA and/or BA or BS in a business-related field<BR>M&A deal experience preferred<BR><BR>MOD:FIN </font></td>
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