Senior Finance Manager, Azure Analytics & Automation

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the heart of the revenue budget process for Azure - Microsoft's growth engine! As Senior Finance Manager, Azure Analytics & Automation, you will lead the design and implementation of an aspiring and high-impact project to automate parts of the revenue budgeting process. You will also drive deep business impact by developing revenue targets for Azure Databases that will help drive growth and increase market share.

In Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Finance, we’re driving shareholder value in 54 subsidiaries and 120 Sales Locations. We carry the local accountability for the financials, as well as statutory and compliance matters across all Microsoft commercial segments and products:

• Land the company vision around the transformation of our business and customer orientation in the subsidiaries and externally.
• Drive strategic resource allocation and investments through local insights, ensuring optimal returns aligned with our worldwide strategy. Key focus is on New Business and consumption with an industry and workload perspective.
• Build trust to lay the foundation of long-term growth from a customer and shareholder point of view in a compliant way.
• Empower and inspire our people to lead and be part of high-performing impactful teams while providing diverse career opportunities.

Be part of a team of adept individuals leading product sales execution insights.

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

• Leverage programming and tool building to design and implement automated solutions for the Azure revenue budgeting process across all products, freeing up the team's time to create incremental impact through deeper insights, stakeholder engagement, and strategy.
• Partner with MCAPS Sales, Engineering and business teams to drive cloud consumption analytics supporting critical Azure motions across solution areas (primarily Azure Databases), segments and areas.
• Lead the annual budgeting process for Azure Databases, including data preparation, insights gathering, modeling and landing targets with stakeholders.
• Land revenue budgets with our global field sales organization by helping stakeholders understand key strategies, priorities, drivers and opportunities for growth.
• Enable deeper understanding of key Azure workloads by building models that provide actionable insights and follow up with field leader across Sales and Finance organizations.
• Effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects, tasks, and stakeholders -- often under tight deadlines.
• Collaborate across groups without direct authority to deliver high-impact results.
• 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, finance, data science, data analytics 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, finance, data science, data analytics or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Knowledge and experience with programming languages, such as R, Python, SQL or others.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, finance, data science, or data analytics work experience
  
  • OR Masters Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, finance, data science, or data analytics work experience