Senior Finance Manager - CTJ - Poly

Our Cloud Investment Strategy team is seeking a Senior Finance Manager responsible for driving the financial evaluation of mission-related opportunities in support of Microsoft’s work with the U.S. Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, Federal government, and their mission partners.  

The team’s charter is to deliver mission solutions in partnership with the Strategic Missions and Technology team while driving down unit cost of capacity, ensuring mission solutions & cloud services achieve both profit and gross margin growth. As a crucial member of the team you’ll also support long term bets to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition, all while enhancing transparency into Microsoft investments and safeguarding shareholder interests.  

This role will lead P&L management, controllership, and compliance for the government clouds.  Core responsibilities will include business partnering with the US field teams, mission engineering partners, cloud engineering partners, the national security team, and corporate finance teams to deliver end-to-end financial assessments and communicate the investments, risks, and economics of potential opportunities.  

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully. The Microsoft Margin Strategy and Investment Optimization finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy. We are looking for a talented and motivated individual to help shape the future of our cloud products.  

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.

Responsibilities

This role is a great opportunity to:  

• Partner across diverse business planning and engineering teams to drive Microsoft’s strategy & execution  

• Develop robust financial models to evaluate investments and to inform customer-specific opportunities  

• Enhance transparency into end-to-end processes and partnerships to identify and drive accountability  

• Be a trusted business partner to commerce and central finance teams to ensure regulatory and contractual compliance  

• Analyze ROI and provide decision support to business teams  

• Develop and implement processes and frameworks to accelerate, simplify, and scale Microsoft Cloud’s investment process  

• Engage in continuous learning of Microsoft Cloud services, infrastructure, operations, go-to-market, and long-term cloud economics  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 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 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 equivalent experience.

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