Senior Finance Manager

Microsoft's Channel Finance team is adding a new role to focus on Global Channel Sales (GCS) within our broader Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Segment Finance team. Our team works with stakeholders across the company (Channel Partner, Solution Areas, Marketing, Business Planning) to help scale our commercial products and capture total addressable market (TAM) in the Small, Medium, & Corporate (SMC) customer segment.

We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager to join the team. The Senior Finance Manager and Global Channel Sales will work closely with the Channel business team, driving insights and analysis to influence strategic direction and business decision making to accelerate revenue growth across the MCAPS Priorities: Copilot, AI design wins, Security, M365 (Microsoft 365) core execution and migrations. We are looking for someone to operate in a results-driven, dynamic environment of a business area with continued growth opportunities.

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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. 

We’re embracing a collaborative work-hybrid rhythm—three days a week at our beautiful Redmond campus to reconnect, recharge, and reignite team strategy brainstorming! 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities: 

• Partner with the Global Channel Partner Sales (GCPS) and Small, Medium, & Enterprise Corporate (SME&C) business teams to integrate the monthly Rythm of Business (ROB) and performance insights
• Evaluate the health of the Commercial businesses and provide deep insights from the partner lens to include, but not limited to: revenue and non-revenue Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), global target accountability, and partner-specific performance against targets
• Collaborate with the GCPS Planning Lead to scope new commercial metrics, assess evolution of existing scorecard metrics, understand data availability on the partner side, help prepare and land the targets across the areas, and work with partner segment leadership to model and land partner accountability targets
• Core accountabilities for this role include:
  • Partners with GCPS leads to drive execution of the business, accurate reporting of the segment’s impact and contribution within GPS/commercial, and become a trusted advisor
  • Drive the development of new analytics, including forward-looking business analytics on go-to-market strategies, partner program KPIs, and promote knowledge-sharing with other SME&C finance leads
  • Collaborate proactively across the partner ecosystem and engage Field Controllers to evangelize trends and influence business decisions, and solicit feedback for greater alignment between MCAPS Core and field
  • Ad hoc, project-based analytics to support various business initiatives

•       Other 

• • Embody our culture and values

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.
• 3+ years experience evaluating commercial business health and partnering performance against KPIs by integrating business insights and aligning with partners on scorecard metrics.

Additional or Preferred qualifications

• 6+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience OR B