Leading ~20 Finance employees spanning senior Finance professionals through to early-in-careerPartnering with senior business leaders to drive sustainable, rapid growth of multi-billion $ UK commercial revenueLeading investment and resource optimisation across a UK Commercial P&L encompassing 2k employees and £400M+ controllable costsLeading team of accountants responsible for all tax and financial accounting requirements for ten UK legal entitiesKEY ACHIEVEMENTS:• Cloud transformation: Led Finance team responsible for partnering with the business across numerous strategic priority areas and business units to drive ongoing double-digit Cloud and AI solutions revenue growth in the UK• Incubate new business: Partnered across Finance and the Business to land and rapidly grow new Commercial Cloud categories and product offerings, including incubation and rapid scaling of new Generative AI solutions, into the UK market using a repeatable playbook that included resource and investment planning, customer-level opportunity targeting, partner-enablement and relevant business operating models• Culture change / team success: Drove culture change, team wellbeing and high team performance by leading People agenda for UK Commercial Finance team including accountability for driving key initiatives spanning Talent Management, Career Development, Work-Life Balance and Manager Excellence• Customer transformation: Enabled customers to devise and accelerate their own Finance transformation agenda by engaging with Finance leaders of Microsoft customers to showcase how Microsoft has modernized its Finance function through digital transformation and use of both traditional and generative AI.• Various organisational design projects: Optimised headcount resources across Finance and the Business, driving clarity on business process or operating models, through leading and partnering on various organisational re-design projects.

Led team five people responsible for partnering with business to drive sustainable and compliant growth of Microsoft’s UK & Ireland consumers business, spanning Gaming, Windows, Office and all personal computing devices including Microsoft Surface devices and Phones KEY ACHIEVEMENTS• Business incubation: Supported rapid growth of new Microsoft Consumer offerings into the UK&I market by partnering across Finance and the Business to incubate within a Retail and Distributor sales and marketing model• Worldwide reporting modernisation: Drove time-efficiencies and improved business insights across the worldwide finance team by leading a project to review existing financial reporting, followed by designing and landing a modern PowerBI reporting suite and associated financial close and forecasting framework• Integration and subsequent divestment of Microsoft Mobile (formerly Nokia UK): As part of broader Microsoft acquisition of Nokia and the associated integration and eventual divestment activities, I led the Microsoft UK Mobile Device Finance team through various business, finance and compliance challenges linked to the integration and subsequent divestment of the mobile phone business• Organisational design: Supported the successful re-design of the organisational model of the Microsoft Consumer business by leading and partnering on two key Finance org re-design projects related to the Microsoft Hardware business• Compliance and risk management: Landed effective compliance and controls framework across internal business operations, external partner organisations and the Finance function to ensure proactive management of risks, both internal and within the external distribution channel partners and customers

Responsible for providing business performance insight to MSI President and MSI CFO covering end-to-end Microsoft business. Additionally, owned MSI HQ quarterly rhythm of business (RoB)KEY ACHIEVEMENTS• Led design and operation of the quarterly business review (QBR) rhythm between the President Microsoft International (MSI) and MSI CFO and their 11 Area Leadership Teams (spanning LATAM, EMEA and Asia)

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