Microsoft Corporation Looking for Sr. Finance Manager – Cloud +AI Revenue Finance at Redmond, WA Full Time

Do you want to play a role in shaping the future? Do you want to drive transformation and be at the center of the action? Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (C+AI) is fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history. As Azure continues to scale at multi-billion-dollar annual growth, there has never been a more exciting or compelling time to be a part of our business.

The C+AI Revenue Finance team is looking for a strong finance professional who will lead the overall business rhythms for our monthly close and business reviews, scorecard, and senior leadership team messaging. You will build partnerships across the broader C+AI Revenue Finance team to broaden your expertise on business performance and synthesize this into key themes and messages for executive leadership. In addition, you will be the lead on several key Azure accounting processes, as well as serving as our lead for all compliance related matters.

If you are passionate about Azure, want to influence its growth, build a broad knowledge base across our business, value strong partnership within and across multiple teams and enjoy working in a fun team environment, then come join us!

Responsibilities

• Lead the monthly processes for close and business reviews across Engineering, Marketing and Sales organizations, providing clarity on timelines and deliverables across a large finance team to deliver sharp, compelling insights to numerous leadership teams.

• Own the End-to-End Intelligent Cloud Segment story, including attainment insights, early signals performance summaries, quarterly outlook, opportunities, and risks.

• Drive alignment on C+AI business health messaging for SLT scorecard and State of the Business executive forums, driving connection to compete and focus on overall business health performance objectives.

• Provide leadership on all compliance matters for C+AI revenue team, partnering with auditors to ensure all requirements and met.

Protect

• Ensures compliance with company policies, legal standards, and regulatory requirements by reviewing and monitoring accuracy of financial documents and business processes. Drives corrective measures. Consults with business partners on sharing financial information, approved instruments and processes, and consistency with corporate policies. Collaborates with Compliance groups to ensure team is current on company policies and procedures.

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 of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience

• OR Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field AND 2+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience

• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid analytical, problem-solving, and financial modeling skills

• Strong partnering, collaboration, and interpersonal skills, influencing others without direct authority and appropriately pushing back when required

• Excellent organizational skills with an ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities, sometimes under tight deadlines

• Effective oral and written communication skills at various levels of the organization

• Process management skills with impeccable attention to detail and accuracy

• Experience in assessing the health of consumption-based business models will be highly beneficial.

How You Do It Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Accountability

• Detail Oriented

• Financial Analysis

• Financial Modeling

• Quality Assurance

• Oral and Written Communication

• Diversity Promotion

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (~~~) .

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