Senior Finance Manager

Overview

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.

The team’s charter is to build out end to end Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure while driving down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve both profit and gross margin growth.

As a crucial member of the team, you’ll also support long term bets and drive competitive intelligence to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition.

All while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments, safeguarding shareholder interest.

We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager supporting our cloud product margins and strategy, defining key areas for margin expansion in the netwroking space and driving optimal execution strategies.

Qualifications

Required / Minimum Qualifications :

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

Preferred Qualifications :

• Demonstrated written and verbal communications
• Thorough and detailed oriented, while summarizing analysis to drive broader business context and insight
• Comfortable handling ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at fast pace
• Able to manage multiple work streams and prioritize as needed
• Partnering capabilities, collaborative and inclusive when working with others
• Able to synthesize and communicate analyses; provide insight to leaders and business partners

Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,600 - $183,800 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 $122,000 - $200,500 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here :

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Responsibilities

Performs analysis and research of present and future product financial performance, operational plans (e.g., expected returns, resource allocation, pricing, investment opportunities) and major economic transactions (e.

g., customer deals, commercial partnerships, acquisitions, etc.).

Provides business insights and recommendations to peers and stakeholders to achieve revenue and profitability goals and drive shareholder return, including resource allocation, cost optimization, revenue generation, trends, and future requirements.

Manages and executes processed through engagement with internal and external stakeholders. Collaborates with business leaders to define action plans for financial and business analysis findings.

Applies advanced understanding of Microsoft Finance and business (e.g., monetization strategy, market, key drivers, revenue channels, advanced technology, and business partner work context) to multiple situations to evaluate results and analysis.

Develops and manages strategies to proactively mitigate, or reactively address, potential adverse effects of macroeconomic and / or geopolitical risks.

Maintains working knowledge of Microsoft financial systems, policies, and processes to evaluate potential impacts of change, and drives improvements in efficienciy and accuracy

Integrates varied data sources and assimilates the information into a comprehensive, clear narrative. Communicates results in a compelling and understandable message.

Articulates understanding and awareness of business partner situation.

Specifically, the role is a great opportunity to :

Oversee thought leadership, finance decision support on Microsoft’s long term networking investments across its global regions

In partnership with engineering teams, co-own the product roadmap. Drive clear, consistent planning assumptions, financial performance expectations across cross-functional teams with clear, consistent assumptions around margin expectations, and engineering efficiencies (utilization, hardware density, etc)

Collaborate with engineering, busienss planning and finance counterparts to define product enhancements, support market share acceleration, networking utilization to steady state (compete parity) and improves gross-margin scale velocity

Deliver quarterly financial, operational review with Engineering leaders, clearly communicating results and recommendations to business leaders.

Own analysis of key metrics, visualization Insights and investment recommendation to key executives

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

Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect