Senior Finance Manager - Commercial Business Insights - Central Finance Team

Senior Finance Manager - Commercial Business Insights - Central Finance Team

Are you passionate about shaping financial strategy and driving impact at a global scale? Join the Commercial Business Insights - Central Finance Team, where you'll transform data into actionable insights that influence Microsoft's most critical business decisions. As a Senior Finance Manager, you'll deliver analytics that guide planning, forecasting, and reporting for the Commercial business while collaborating with diverse stakeholders across finance, engineering, sales, and marketing. Your work will empower leaders-from senior executives to the Board of Directors-with clarity and transparency, enabling informed decisions that shape Microsoft's future and impact millions of customers and partners worldwide.

The Senior Finance Manager - Commercial Business Insights - Central Finance Team plays an essential role in delivering insights that support effective planning, monitoring, and informed decision-making on discounting and renewal performance. This position works collaboratively with finance partners across the organization to foster transparent discussions around key Commercial business metrics and performance indicators. Additionally, the role provides customized analytical solutions to meet diverse business needs, ensuring all stakeholders have equitable access to the information required for data-driven decisions.

We're excited to offer a hybrid role that gives you the best of both worlds. You'll get to collaborate in person with your teammates at our Redmond office three days a week, and enjoy the flexibility of remote work the rest of the time. If you love connecting face-to-face and also appreciate some work-from-home days, this could be a great fit for you.

Our team culture is centered around Microsoft corporate values and the One Microsoft approach with business partners. Our team is comprised of many individuals with diverse backgrounds and values the unique perspectives and thought processes each colleague brings to the table. Our team leans into helping one another and is not afraid to try new things with a growth mindset mentality.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

Lead reporting cadence across stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate monthly and quarterly financial close.

Define and govern the Renewal Health Framework in partnership with business and finance teams across the Commercial organization (including MCAPS and Engineering Groups), ensuring alignment and clarity.

Drive automation and innovation to reduce manual data cleansing efforts by leveraging tools such as machine learning and advanced analytics.

Manage standard reporting processes and oversee intake for enhancements to renewal reporting solutions.

Promote collaboration within the finance community to deliver ad-hoc analytics that enable informed business discussions and strengthen renewal health and execution.

Utilize cross-team analytics expertise to advance predictive analytics capabilities for renewals.

Qualifications

Required / Minimum Qualifications

Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR equivalent experience.

2+ years work experience with proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including advanced functions (e.g., formulas, pivot tables, and data analysis) and demonstrated ability to perform accurate financial calculations.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

Masters Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience OR Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience OR equivalent experience.

1+ year(s) experience in multinationals with multi-product / multi-segment finance roles.

1+ year(s) work experience in matrix-based organization.

1+ year(s) work experience in the technology or software industry.

Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $96,500 - $188,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $123,500 - $206,400 per year.