Sr. Finance Manager

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive 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 individual to help shape the future of our Windows products.

The team’s charter is to optimize our investments in cloud infrastructure while driving down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve both profit and gross margin growth. As a Senior Finance Manager on this team, you’ll also support long term bets and drive competitive intelligence to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of the competition. All while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments and safeguarding shareholder interest.

We currently have an opening for an experienced Senior Finance Manager to join the MSIO AI, Webxt and Consumer finance team leading business health for Windows.

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

Responsibilities

• Maintain reporting, conduct financial analysis, and provide deep business insights into the Windows product's gross margin performance. Lead monthly and quarterly finance health review with MSIO finance executives to articulate performance vs. expectations and provide cost improvement recommendations to aid margin expansion.
• Own the operational driver analyses and messaging for sequential quarter over quarter (QoQ) & yearly cost and margin performance for Chief Financial Officer review and preview processes. Provide key insights on business health trends to finance leadership team, the Central Finance team, and Investor Relations.
• Partner with peers across MSIO, Revenue, controllership, workload owners, and other finance teams to ensure alignment on numbers and consolidate actionable data and variance stories.
• Execute core monthly financial processes, reporting and provide visibility into execution variance versus plan. Communicate results to partners and facilitate trade off decision making to mitigate financial risk.
• Lead consolidated forecast, long range planning (LRP), Close, and margin accountability program (MAP) efficiency processes for Windows; leveraging inputs and insights from various line item and workload owners to create consolidated and consistent simplified and actionable reporting.

Other 

Embody our culture and values 

Qualifications

Minimum Required 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:

• Demonstrated ability to form and influence cross-functional partnerships to deliver high-value projects both as an individual and through v-teams with business partnering skills
• Proven data and financial modeling capabilities and ability to work with financial systems
• Ability to communicate complex analysis in a simple way. Executive level oral and written communication skills.
• Proven leadership skills, with demonstrated results in proactively driving and delivering high value/high-impact project results through both individual and v-team efforts.
• Ability to drive best-in-class decision support in ambiguous environments.  Partnering capabilities, with the ability to influence others without direct authority and appropriately push back when required.
• Deep understanding of the technology industry, particularly commercial public a