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The goal of the Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (CFPA) team is to provide key insights that help Microsoft make better financial and business decisions. Our team is at the hub of Microsoft’s financial activities, being a key strategic partner to all sides of the business and serving a diverse set of stakeholders: CFOs, Senior Leadership Team, engineering groups, and sales and marketing teams.
Finance Managers in our team help us transform the way we measure business performance, manage resources, and lead financial activities using business intelligence, modeling, and analytics. As a Finance Manager, you will have a unique opportunity to use your insights and strategic thinking to partner with leaders on financial decisions, investments, efficiency, and process transformation projects.
Business Purpose:
We are looking for an individual with strong analytical, collaboration and storytelling skills to support end-to-end revenue and margin analytics for our commercial business. This person will have high levels of curiosity and a passion for understanding the drivers of business performance, collaborating across finance orgs to ensure that these drivers are well-understood and communicated effectively.
Responsibilities
For this role, key responsibilities include:
Commercial Analysis: For Business Applications and LinkedIn, drive the monthly and quarterly analysis, identify key business insights and lead quarterly forecast triangulation and insights.- Commercial Forecast: Co-lead quarterly commercial forecast process, collaborating with EG and MCAPS teams to ensure that deliverables land in line with required timelines.
- Close Reporting: Refine and evolve standard views to enable faster, more informed decision making. Partner with FD&E to land new metrics and datapoints in standard cubes.
- Adhoc projects: incubate new frameworks, drive deeper analytics on Revenue and GM performance of key products and key competitors.
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
- Systems, tools and technology savvy; financial reporting and power Excel expertise; prior knowledge of MS Sales and/or Mercury is a plus; strong PowerPoint skills are a plus
- Detail oriented & thorough, with ability to think ‘big picture’ and understand the key trends and levers that drive Microsoft’s business
- Ability to manage multiple projects, work creatively and effectively in ambiguous situations
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, particularly strong with cross-group collaboration and executive presence.
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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