Senior Finance Manager - Commercial Products & Infrastructure

The Commercial Products & Infrastructure (CPI) organization is responsible for driving Microsoft cloud & Artificial Intelligence (AI) capacity, margin excellence and resource allocation rigor across Microsoft’s portfolio. Within The Margin Strategy ＆ Investment Optimization (MSIO) organization, the Investment Optimization Strategy finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving team that partners deeply with engineering leaders to ensure $20B+ resources across ~100K engineering FTEs are continuously aligned to strategic engineering priorities.

Why is this the right place for you?

• Now is the time and place to accelerate your career development and velocity by understanding and driving the strategic importance of cost leadership, a core competency for future finance leaders.
• Develop a CFO mindset and influence leadership to drive expense management and resource allocation decisions – continuously aligning investments and costs with a prioritized engineering product roadmap.
• Bring fresh energy and innovation to solve complex short and long-term problems in the new AI transformational age.
• Build deep trusted relationships to collaborate across a wide variety of teams at Microsoft including  engineering leaders, Product Revenue and Margin teams, Central Finance Team, Global Workplace Services, Procurement and Human Resources.
• Highly driven team with an emphasis on fun!

This Senior Finance Manager - Commercial Products & Infrastructure position requires a motivated and agile system thinker who can demonstrate intellectual curiosity and navigate ambiguity and complexity to be the trusted finance advisor to our engineering leaders and drive success for our business partners.

Responsibilities

• Business and Finance Partnership: Provide strategic leadership to top Engineering and Finance leaders to drive operating leverage through resource allocation and investment optimization by giving visibility to the current resource landscape, analyzing macro-level results, and applying systems thinking to identify and recommend levers to influence decision-making.

• Business Health: Drive process excellence while partnering across Engineering and Finance to continuously assess the overall health of the business and understand key drivers to identify opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs. Ensure resources and investments are constantly aligned with business strategy, product engineering roadmaps, and company priorities.

• Thought Leadership: Establish and leverage holistic analytical framework and best practices across Finance to spot and anticipate trends and deliver insights to unlock greater efficiencies for resource allocation and investment spend.

• Embody our culture and values 

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

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• Financial analysis experience in a high-tech company
• Revenue Planning and/or Consulting experience
• Communication & presentation skills