Senior Finance Manager, Studios Expense Lead

At Team Xbox, we are on a mission to bring joy, excitement, and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. We deliver on that vision by putting players at the core, enabling you to play the games you want, with the people you want, and anywhere you want. Finance is at the center of making this vision a reality.

The Senior Finance Manager, Studios Expense Lead, on our Xbox Game Studios Finance team will play a central role in supporting our 1P (First Party) studios by becoming a subject matter specialist on studio expenses, partnering with our accounting and royalties teams to ensure accuracy and alignment, and collaborating with studios. As our 1P expense lead, you will focus on optimizing our gross margin and accountability margin, as well as lead the centralized work of allocating our central expenses and managing the balance sheet. This role will engage in extensive cross group collaboration across our team of gaming finance controllers, accounting, marketing, and central finance teams to drive margin growth and P&L (Profit & Loss) optimization.

At Microsoft, our mission—to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more—guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress—people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.     

• Partner with a broad set of teams to drive insight and analytics into the key drivers of the first-party gaming business and be an integral part of the gaming finance team.
• Develop subject matter specialty in studio expenses, maintaining high-quality reporting standards and driving forecast accuracy across the studios’ portfolio.
• Serve as a trusted financial advisor to leaders, enabling data driven solutions that support critical strategic initiatives and optimize ROI (Return on Investment).
• Primary point of contact for the first-party studios’ central expenses, working with engineering, accounting, and marketing in setting up proper allocations of central costs to our first-party gaming studios and running periodic reviews of our balance sheet.
• Design new approaches to collecting and evaluating financial data and creating additional value by translating data into actionable insights and implementing creative ways to communicate findings from data.
• Orchestrate the comprehensive system of accounting policies, procedures, and controls, as well as maintain accountability for internal control processes and procedures.
• Drive compliance and controllership objectives through partnerships, and mitigate emerging statutory, tax, regulatory, and fiduciary risks.
• Embody our culture and values  

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.

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