Senior Finance Manager

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, motivates our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-first strategy, we strive to deliver optimized solutions that enable customers to manage

their business more successfully. Microsoft’s Margin Strategy and Investment Optimization (MSIO) team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy. We are looking for a talented and motivated Senior Finance Manager to help shape the future of our cloud products.

The organization's aim is to optimize our investments in cloud infrastructure while guiding down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve both profit and gross margin growth. All while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments and

safeguarding shareholder interest.

The Azure Margin - Product Allocations Team is chartered to lead the monthly Rhythm-of-the-Business (ROB) processes and provide deep insights into both Datacenter and Azure/Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) usage company wide. This team is critical to the success of the broader MSIO team as we provide subject matter expertise and reporting solutions that enable our finance, engineering, and business partners to drive toward their optimization and usage goals for margin performance.

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 team is seeking a senior finance manager focusing on optimizing Azure & GPU usage by first parties across Microsoft. We are looking for an initiative-taking individual who has curiosity to learn the Azure & GPU businesses and wants to make impact through deep partnership with key finance stakeholders, continuous process improvements, and driving

business insight.

• Business partnering: partner across organizations, incl. Engineering, Artificial Intelligence Finance and other finance teams to support Azure usage and strategic initiatives for first parties, identify and drive best practices to meet gross margin goals.

• Financial modeling: build models to enable insights, surface actionable opportunities, drive the right behavior and support decision-making for engineering migrations, prioritization, and strategy.

• Financial analysis: conduct financial analysis and tell the story of Azure and GPU to provide critical input to measure progress and trends and articulate those findings to finance and engineering leadership to support decision making.

Other

• 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 or finance, 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 or finance, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, economics, engineering, math or related field, MBA preferred
• 7+ years of relevant work experience with a deep analytical foundation
• Established leadership skills with deep analytical modeling and strategic thinking skills
• Comfortable handling ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at fast pace
• Proven data and financial modeling capabilities and ability to work with financial systems
• Ability to communicate complex analysis in a straightforward way. Executive level oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated results proactively driving and delivering high value/high-impact project through both individual and v-team efforts
• Initiative-taker driving best-in-class decision support in environments 
• Demonstrated collaboration capabilities, with ability to influence others without direct authority and appropriately push back as requ