Microsoft Finance, Controllers and HR synergy Belgrade - 20th May, 2014 Ivana Milic – Finance Lead Serbia & Montenegro

• 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

Who are we?

IT Industry Trends

Automate,

Unify, Simplify

Control,

Track, Audit

Improve Financial

Operations

Streamline

Compliance Monitor,

Analyze, Align

Drive 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

Microsoft Approach for Finance

Controlling at Microsoft

Business controllers

Controls & compliance

- 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.

- Ensure that any new initiatives or business solutions are implemented with appropriate risk control

- 9 SCA (Finance management, HR, Spent management, Anti-corruption, Retail, Privacy and security, etc)

Financial controllers

- 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

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