Senior Finance Manager – Cloud & AI Revenue

If you're looking for exciting business challenges, an opportunity to shape the future of cloud, and a place to grow your career while having fun, this role in Microsoft’s Cloud & AI Revenue Team is for you.

This is a unique and high-visibility role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. We are seeking a Cloud & AI Revenue Senior Finance Manager to lead our research efforts. This role will partner across organizations to develop and deliver impactful insights, clear frameworks, and new thinking that are regularly presented to Microsoft’s executive leadership.

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

The main responsibilities include:

• Analyzing local and global cloud market and competitive dynamic trends to guide important decision making for our finance, engineering, and sale leadership.
• Performing analysis across investments, margins, cost structure, and other KPIs
• Support peer teams on decision making with research into peer financial disclosures, targeting differentiation reported in quarterly earnings calls, 10Ks, 10Qs, and S-1 filings
• Leading our product portfolio analysis, identifying gaps and opportunities to improve and compete, as well as defining strategies with engineering teams to close any potential gaps
• Be a strategic advisor to team members on their projects. Help shape effective approaches and support them in creating clear framework that tackles the project problem statements. Help ensure outcomes are socialized appropriately, and actions are followed up on
• Bring thought leadership on how we can be more efficient in collecting and socializing market updates from sources such as news and announcement events
• Embody our culture and values 

Qualifications

Required 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
• 2 years of experience building Excel models and leveraging financial systems for accurate analysis and reporting.