Senior Finance Manager - Azure Hardware

The Margin Strategy and Investment Optimization (MSIO) finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy and responsible for driving Microsoft cloud & AI capacity, margin excellence, and resource allocation rigor across Microsoft’s portfolio. Within MSIO, 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 empoyees are continuously aligned to strategic engineering priorities.

We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager - Azure Hardware on the Cloud Hardware Infrastructure and Platform Finance (CHIP) Team to assist us in this critical work. In this role, you will work closely with engineering leaders and support the Azure Hardware and System Infrastructure organization that are chartered with landing powering Microsoft Azure’s with the most advanced hardware systems and infrastructure.  This role partners with engineering, global talent acquisition, and finance to plan employee headcount resources and implement a strategic workforce talent roadmap to support long-term capacity growth. To be successful in this role you should be skilled at problem-solving at multiple altitudes (high-level strategy to tactical execution) and can navigate complexity and ambiguity in a dynamic environment.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Business and Finance Partnership: Provide leadership to the business and other finance teams with respect to financial management, resource prioritization, and allocation. Ensure investments are aligned to key priorities. Drive analytical and conceptual thinking with stakeholders that extends beyond the numbers into strategy.  Influence a compliant culture through actions and education with stakeholders.
• Decision Support: Apply strategic thinking into FTE headcount resource planning to maximize engineering investments through industry intelligence and benchmarking. Provide deeper insight to enable leadership’s decision on where and how resources should be deployed. Give visibility to the current resource landscape and drive re-deployment discussions. Communicate trade-off scenarios and provide financial analysis for recommendations.
• Business Health and Planning: Lead finance rhythms with business partners (close, forecast, budget).  Partner with stakeholders to craft the capacity investment story through deep business understanding and collaboration.  Take a macro-level approach to analyze results, highlighting trends and key levers.  Support CFO and Engineering CVP reviews.
• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance 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, or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial analysis experience in a high-tech company
• Compelling communication & presentation skills
• Experience developing complex financial models and demonstrated scenario and quantitative analysis skills
• Ability to influence and impact without authority, operate within ambiguity, and problem solve in a dynamic business environment
• Proven interpersonal and cross-group collaboration skills
• Skilled at prioritization and driving simplicity within a complex and highly-matrixed environment
• Proficient technical skills (Excel/Power BI and SQL)