Senior Finance Manager - Cloud Corporate Partnerships

Overview 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.   

Our Cloud Corporate Partnership team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance organization at the forefront of Microsoft’s cloud growth. We partner deeply with Microsoft engineering, marketing, and business development teams to build strategic partnerships that deliver maximum value.  
 
We are looking for an Azure Partnerships Senior Finance Manager to lead some of our largest and most strategic Azure partnerships. This role focuses on defining the best competitive strategy to land successful long-term partnerships by applying robust technical, financial, and business expertise. This role also serves as subject matter advisor for contractual terms and GTM incentive discussions. 

The main responsibilities include: 
 

• Engaging with internal and external executives to clearly articulate the outcome of complex financial analyses 

• Partnering with Business Development, Engineering, Marketing, and other teams to guide healthy Azure partnerships  

• Creating robust financial models to evaluate complex transactions and determine negotiations guardrails 

• Developing frameworks to accelerate, simplify, and scale Azure’s deal making and partnership process  

• Continuous learning of Microsoft Cloud services, infrastructure, operations, go-to-market, and long-term growth levers.  

• Embody our culture and values

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. 

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, controllership or finance work experience
  • OR equivalent experience. 

• Passionate about the technology industry, and ability to engage in technical discussions  

• Written and verbal communication skills, enabling simple communication of complex topics to an executive audience 

• Analytical skills and strategic thinking  

• Modeling capabilities and ability to work with financial systems  

• Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at a fast pace  

• Comfort working at multiple altitudes, from strategic/high-level projects to detailed analysis  

• Proven leadership skills, with demonstrated results in proactively driving and delivering high value/high-impact project results through both individual and v-team efforts  

• Business partnering capabilities, with the ability to influence others without direct authority and appropriately push back when required  

• Ability to handl