Senior Finance Manager - Frontline Worker

Join the Modern Workplace & Security finance team and play an integral role in shaping the future of our business. Our Microsoft 365 offering is the world’s productivity cloud and the only comprehensive solution that empowers everyone with an integrated, secure experience on any device. Leading organizations are choosing our AI infused premium offerings for their advanced security, communications, and productivity experiences to unlock new scenarios of digital transformation. The team works across engineering, marketing, and sales teams to develop solutions to deliver against this journey.  Our core products include productivity, communication, analytics, management, security, and compliance. You will learn partnership and have an ability to impact across many key business functions including product, go to market strategy as well as business planning & development.

The Senior Finance Manager - Frontline Worker, for Modern Workplace & Security (MW&S) financial planning & accounting (FP&A) team is an exciting role supporting one of Microsoft’s most exciting and scaled businesses that is being re-energized by AI. The role will focus on driving the growth of the FLW business by partnering across marketing, sales, engineering and finance to evaluate business health, land quarterly forecasts, set annual targets and drive and operationalize go-to-market (GTM) motions. In addition, the role would drive the forecast and target setting for the Enterprise Mobility & Security (EMS) business, partnering closely with the Security Customer Solution Area (CSA) Finance team. The individual will conduct financial analysis to provide health of business insights and trends and articulate those findings to the finance leadership to support revenue strategies & strategic decision making. He or she will build robust, driver-based financial models to guide decision-making on business structure, strategy, pricing, revenue, target setting and strategic direction.

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Responsibilities

Prioritize

• Financial modeling: Build robust, driver-based financial models to guide decision-making on business structure, strategy, pricing, revenue, and strategic direction
• Financial analysis: Conduct financial analysis to provide health of business readouts and trends, and articulate those findings to finance and marketing leadership to support decision making
• Rhythm of Business: Conduct regular revenue and key performance indicators reviews, develop quarterly forecast and target, and support business reviews
• Business Health: Define and land key performance KPIs to assist in assessing FLW and EMS business health and driving strategic goals across Microsoft leadership and Microsoft’s sales organization
• Annual target setting: Drive reporting, rhythms and deep horizontal analytics during the target setting process focused on sales motion and pricing level drivers in alignment with CPF and MCAPS

Partnership

• Partner with our MW&S Finance teams to help build the M365 story focused on the what and the why on business performance and actions that are required to ensure the business remains healthy, sustainable and able to hit short and long term goals
• Provides business insights and recommendations to peers and stakeholders to achieve revenue and profitability goals and drive shareholder return.
• Applies advanced understanding of Microsoft Finance and business (e.g., monetization strategy, market, key drivers, revenue channels, advanced technology, and business partner work context) to multiple situations to evaluate results and analysis. Develops and manages strategies to proactively mitigate, or reactively address, potential adverse effects of macroeconomic and/or geopolitical risks. Maintains working knowledge of Microsoft financial systems, policies, and processes to evaluate potential impacts of changes, and drives improvements in efficiency and accuracy.
• Contributes to new and unconventional methods and approaches to da