Microsoft Nigeria Recruitment Application Form 2024 [October]

Microsoft Nigeria Recruitment Application Form 2024 [October] : Microsoft Nigeria, a worldwide leader in software, services, devices and solutions is currently recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the following internship and experienced positions listed below.

The Microsoft Nigeria If you have unique experiences, skills and passions-and we believe you can bring them all to Microsoft for a rich, rewarding career and lifestyle that will surprise you with its breadth and potential. Just imagine the excitement and satisfaction of what you can do, where you can go, and the difference you can make with the resources of Microsoft behind you.

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Microsoft Nigeria Recruitment Application Form 2024.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

MEA ECIF and Marketing Controller at Microsoft Nigeria

Job Title: MEA ECIF and Marketing Controller

Job number: 725942
Location: Nigeria
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Finance
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Description

• In Global Sales Marketing and Operations (GSMO) Finance, we’re driving shareholder value in 57 subsidiaries & 117 Sales Locations and carry the local accountability for the financials as well as statutory and compliance matters across all Microsoft commercial segments and products. We:
  • Land the company vision around the transformation of our business and customer orientation in the subsidiaries and externally.
  • Drive strategic resource allocation and investments through local insights, ensuring optimal returns aligned with our worldwide strategy. Key focus is on New Business and consumption with an industry and workload perspective.
  • Build trust to lay the foundation of long-term growth from a customer and shareholder point of view in a compliant way.
  • Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of high performing impactful teams while providing diverse career opportunities.
• Microsoft MEA is a Multi Country Region with truly diverse Subsidiaries. It is a key enabler of the market IT growth through solid partnership with Governments, Enterprise, small and medium as well as IT partners and consumer partners of the region. MEA HQ Finance team has the responsibility to partner with sales and marketing teams as well as supporting Microsoft legal entities with in the Region. Microsoft Finance is a truly global finance team and you will be part of the WW Financial Controllers to make each other great and build on each other.
• The Financial Controller (FC) – Marketing and ECIF Controller is in charge of managing overall Marketing and ECIF for the area with strong internal controls. This role is vital key member of area FC team and meaningfully participate in financial controller rhythms. Additionally this role is responsible for orchestrating all Marketing and ECIF rhythms (Budget, Forecast, Closing, reviews) and ensuring end to end flow for the area while continuing to drive for standardization and simplification. FC is the key point of contact for Marketing and ECIF driven projects affecting the area and the key contact point for corporate headquarters in assessing implications of evolving business models. The role will be in close collaboration with Investment Controller whose role is to drive ROI across all investments.
• You have a growth and an owner mindset, act as an entrepreneur that focus on business impact, and continuously learn and innovate. You have a capability to actively contribute and build strong collaboration within diverse and virtual teams. You are action oriented and able to build and deliver strong results through others beyond the team as well.
• You drive digital transformation in the finance function towards data driven (Machine Learning) forward-looking insights. You also engage directly with customers and business partners.
• You simplify and inspire through storytelling and excellent communication skills.
• Microsoft values and ethical behavior are a corner stone in our culture.
• Creating Clarity, Generating positive Energy & Delivering Success are the foundational Leadership Principles each and any of us embrace to maximize together work and impact.

Responsibilities
People:

• As key member of area management P&L team, the FC- Marketing and ECIF controller is accountable to meaningfully participate in Financial controller team and rhythm.
• The FC is also a subject matter expert for Marketing and ECIF within the Area Finance community and is expected to contribute to the thought leadership of the community.
• The role also expected to closely collaborate with Investment Controller to maximize the ROI on investments.

Partnership:

• Trusted advisor of the area leadership team for Marketing and ECIF. The FC builds partnerships across the area to deliver insight on ECIF and marketing insights, accurately forecast future results and Inform decision makers on optimize external resources spending.
• Collaborate with HR, M&O, Corp HQ team, One finance and business. Responsible for ensuring that all parties deliver maximum value to the business and are continually improving operational effectiveness.
• Partner with key area and sub finance stakeholders. Leads the budgeting, forecasting, actual, variance and trend analysis for Marketing and ECIF, ensuring insightful commentary provided to area leadership team and offering solutions in P&L optimization

Prioritization:

• The FC has primary responsibility for overseeing overall ECIF and marketing management of the area. Additionally, this role is responsible for Marketing and ECIF key rhythms ensuring end to end flow while driving standardization and simplification.

Key financial rhythms:

• Supervise/accountable for planning and forecasting ECIF and marketing- review trends, identify variance to Budget and one-off items, and inform decision makers of actions to be taken to optimize spending,

ECIF/Marketing management:

• Define a clear Area process to manage ECIF and marketing: to enable Area spend optimization and accuracy of spend
• Ensure transparency of marketing spend at Area level, supervise accuracy of marketing postings and accruals,
• Ensure Compliance adherence of marketing processes, including clarity on how to land Area wide Marketing initiatives from compliance perspective (for MSAs),
• Drive visibility of ECIF spend both for Area and Corp financed projects, supervise quarter-end accruals to reflect accurately the delivery date of ECIF projects ,
• Inform decision makers of actions to be taken to optimize spending of marketing and ECIF
• Drive accurate marketing and ECIF forecast at Area level,
• Collaboration: Collaborate with M&O to streamline and simplified Area Marketing processes
• Others: Additionally controller is responsible for revenue adjustments (excluding channel incentives) while monitoring, analyze trends, identifying variance to Budget/ Fcst, one-off items and causes of unexpected variances.
• Protect   Ensuring proactive Risk Management through internal controls and compliance
• Collaborate with the Control & Compliance lead to embed compliance into the finance and business processes within the area.
• Oversees the systems and processes that deliver outcomes to meet regulatory requirements (including SOX) as well as advises on revisions to these systems and processes to adapt to changing legislative environments.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of active experience in similar role
• 5 years of experience in finance / finance leadership positions
• Statutory (Local GAAP, USGAAP) Accounting, Controlling, Tax knowledge
• Compliance and risk management experience
• Experience in Multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles is recommended
• Fluent in English
• BA/BS or MBA degree in Finance, Economics, CA/CPA preferred.

Benefits and Perks
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Partner Specialist – Data and Advanced Analytics at Microsoft Nigeria

Job Title: Partner Specialist – Data and Advanced Analytics

Job number: 724123
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment type: Full-Time
Profession: Technical Sales
Role type: Individual Contributor

Job Descriptions

• The Opportunity: Joining the One Commercial Partner team as a Partner Specialist means you will be playing a critical role helping Microsoft Partners to capitalize on Digital Transformation market opportunity. Working in OCP means you are shaping the world’s largest eco-system of technology companies.
• Microsoft’s Mission: Through our partners Microsoft brings digital ambitions to life by helping companies empower their employees, engage their customers, optimize their operations, and transform their products.
• Overseeing Digital Transformation Success: The Partner Specialist is a critical role in working with partners to share a compelling vision for driving solution sales, driving consumption and building new practices for a Solution Area that enable customers to realize the vision of Digital Transformation.
• The Partner Specialist – Data & Advanced Analytics, is a Technology Solution Seller building relationships with C-Suite across Partners and Customers to drive sales of Microsoft Data and AI Solution Area, support & coach Partner sales and technical teams, ensure right skills and programs are available to Partners and drive strong opportunity creation and pipeline management at scale via Partners.

Responsibilities

• Identify key Partners that can drive sales of Data and AI solutions on Microsft Azure Platform, ensure readiness and focus of the respective Partners, identify capability and capacity gaps and mobilize internal/external resources to bridge the gaps, drive territory plans with respective Partners
• Develop strategy for identifying, driving & closing Data and AI Solution opportunities for your assigned territory thru Partners
• Coordinate pre-sales and sales efforts for the Solution Area with internal (Account Executive, Inside Sales, Cloud Specialist, Territory Channel Manager etc.) and external resources (Partner Sales & Technical teams)
• Build sales discipline and accountability thru weekly pipeline reviews thru Partners and ensure alignment with internal stakeholders
• Provide Level 100-200 product demos for the Solution Area to Partner teams and occasionally to Customers for large and complex deals as an extended support Partner
• Provide support and coaching to drive excellence in Partner pipeline management, sales forecast and deal close plans for the respective Solution Area
• Consistently demonstrate the business value of MS solutions through solid business cases behind every sales opportunity. Build industry know-how and be a credible advisor for the customer and partner demonstrating confidence with C level executives
• 100% completion of required readiness courses to increase capability in Digital Transformation, Business Value, and Cross-workload selling resulting in high win rate.
• Share the stories that sit behind world-class examples of partners who have built disruptive and market leading new practices based on specific Solutions Areas 10. Gain 200 – 300 Level proficiency in articulating the business value and customer business impact for the Solution Area

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of digital transformation business drivers, cloud platforms, emerging computing trends and their impact on partner practice building and solution sales opportunities.
• 10+ years of related sales and business background in Cloud technologies
• Strong solution selling skills (cloud, data & analytical solutions)
• Knowledge of MS platform preferable, project management, technical Sales and technical account management.
• Proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding sales targets and building trust relationships with CXOs
• Proficiency in Deep Machine leaning and Data Analytics tools.
• Inclusive and collaborative – driving teamwork and cross-team alignment
• Strong partner relationship management and solution selling skills
• Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to large and small business and technical audiences
• Min 3-5 years channel experience
• Bachelor’s degree with exposure to Information Technology (or equivalent)

Benefits and Perks

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: 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.

Microsoft Nigeria Recruitment for Cloud Solution Architect – Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Job Title: Cloud Solution Architect – Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Job number: 724202
Location: Casablanca, Morocco and Lagos, Nigeria
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Customer Success
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Job Description

• We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Cloud Solution Architect to drive high priority customer initiatives on the Microsoft Azure Platform in collaboration with customers and the Microsoft field in strategic accounts segment of our business.
• This is a customer facing role, owning overall technical relationship between customer and Microsoft Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Platform.
• You will own the Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence technical customer engagements including: architectural design sessions, specific implementation projects and/or Pilots. The ideal candidate will have experience in customer-facing roles and success leading deep technical architecture discussions with senior customer executives, Enterprise Architects, IT Management and Developers to drive Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence solutions.

Responsibilities

• Understand customers’ overall data estate, IT and business priorities and success measures to design implementation architectures and solutions (Microsoft and 3rd party solutions) using advanced analytics and artificial intelligence.
• Apply technical knowledge to architect solutions that meet business and IT needs, create AA/AI roadmaps, and ensure long term technical viability of new deployments, infusing key analytics and AI technologies where appropriate (e.g. Azure ML, ML Server, BOT framework, Cognitive Services, Azure Databricks, etc.)
• Develop deep relationships with key customer IT decision makers, who drive long-term cloud adoption within their company to enable them to be cloud advocates.
• Maintain and advance deep technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights, and share within the technical community.
• Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers.
• Be an Azure Platform evangelist with customers, partners and external communities.
• Assess the Customers’ knowledge of Azure platform and overall cloud readiness to

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of Microsoft AI and data platform technologies, BI technologies, with the technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies and understand relevant cloud trends.
• Breadth of technical experience and knowledge, with depth in two or more of the following areas: Business Intelligence, Big Data, Data Governance, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence.
• 5+ years of success in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solution/projects) required.
• Proven track record of building deep technical relationships with senior IT executives and growing data services in large or highly strategic accounts.
• Proven track record of driving decisions collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with exceptional verbal and written communication skills · Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences (Senior Executives, IT management and developers).
• Prior work experience in a Consulting/Architecture position within a software and/or services company such as Amazon, Google, SalesForce, VMware, Google, IBM, Avanade, T-Systems, Wipro, CSC, HP, Infosys, ServiceNow, Dell, TCS.
• Travel required: 0-30%.
• Re-location would be accommodated for qualified candidates

Benefits and Perks
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work:

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: 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.