Microsoft Finance, Controllers and HR
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Belgrade - 20th May, 2014
Ivana Milic – Finance Lead Serbia & Montenegro
Who are we?
• We’re 120k people, in 191 countries (110 subsidiaries)
• MS Serbia Open 2002
• R&D Center open 2005
• We’ve always believed that making technology less expensive and available to more people would unleash human creativity on a scale never seen before.
• That fundamental belief that technology can change the world and improve people’s lives is why we do what we do. It drives our long-term investments. And it’s why Microsoft has a long history of rejecting conventional wisdom and taking on the toughest challenges in pursuit of bringing technology to more people
IT Industry Trends
Microsoft Approach for Finance
Automate, Unify, Simplify Control, Track, Audit Financial Operations Streamline Compliance Monitor, Analyze, Align Corporate Performance
Drive business process productivity and amplify finance and accounting performance Reduce the complexity of governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) Monitor, and analyze data for relevant insight; enhance visibility into performance across the enterprise
Controlling at Microsoft
Business controllers Controls & compliance
Financial controllers
- Key business partner to sales providing a variety of fin. planning and analysis
- Strong finance and business support with clear understanding of the business, assessment of challenges and opportunities to support revenue and scorecard targets, longer term growth and competitive agenda.
- Maximum return for every dollar spent
- Managing the P&L to ensure the right short and long-term investment decisions are made
- Responsibility for cost management, accurate and timely budgeting, forecasting and recording of all costs
- Ensure that any new initiatives or business solutions are implemented with appropriate risk control
- 9 SCA (Finance management, HR, Spent management, Anticorruption, Retail, Privacy and security, etc)
My day at work
Examples:
• Electronic approvals
• Purchase Orders
• Expenses Reports
• Payments
• RE&F investments
• Vacations requests
• Email + Calendar
• Instant Messaging
• Yammer
• Live Meeting
• Video Conferencing
• Blogs
• Revenue
• P&L
• Headcount
• Controller Workspace
• Business Scorecard
• Share Dashboard
