Microsoft Hiring for Sr. Finance Manager – Business Applications Job at Redmond, WA Full Time

Does growing a business excite you? Are you deeply curious, and love to solve problems? Come be a part of a team where you have a high impact on the business, where you are involved in strategic planning, and where your collaboration as well innovative ideas are highly valued. Biz Apps is a high growth, strategically important Cloud business.

Your initiative will help to drive a team that empowers innovation across organizations through expertise, ingenuity, and activating organizations for digital growth. Business Applications Finance Team delivers breakthrough insights, shapes strategy, and agitates toward action in the pursuit of business growth.

We are a diverse, inclusive, agile, and collaborative team focused on continuous improvement, creating the “best place to work.”

Responsibilities

As the forecasting strategy lead, you will be responsible for the intersection between business execution and strategic planning. Fundamentally we rely on this role to be the voice of the business, business outlook, working collaboratively with various Biz Apps Finance teams as well as business partners.

We are looking for that leader without authority, who can create clarity in a complex organizational environment, generate energy through a bias toward action, and deliver insights and form recommendations to senior leaders of the business. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate you career growth, develop deep business understanding, and form lasting partnerships.

This role is flexible in that you will be able to partner with your Manager to define the way that you’d like to work, whether that is in the office or from home or a combination thereof.

• Performs analysis and research of present and future financial performance, financial plans (e.g., expected returns, resource allocation, pricing, investment opportunities) and economic transactions (e.g., customer deals, commercial partnerships, acquisitions, etc.).
• Assists in the execution of annual business planning and forecasting process. Completes analysis, modeling, and research to support preliminary and adjusted forecast cycles. Partners and solicits insight from business and commercial stakeholders.
• Provides business leader support and actionable insights during financial close periods. Reviews recurring financial reporting and presentations. Identifies trends, and formulates action plans. Determines financial results (e.g., revenue, profitability, OPEX, etc.) and conducts variance analyses. Identifies variance causes and solutions. Collaborates to ensure execution of plans and accountability for results.
• Develops and leverages relationships with customers and partners to bolster sales, and to understand and manage business risk. Collects customer feedback data and applies data analysis techniques to improve customer experience. Builds strong relationships with customers at senior levels. Designs and negotiates solutions to complex financial issues with customers. Engages with customers and partners on their wider relationships with Microsoft. Serves as advocate for Microsoft and its customers. Understands customers’ businesses to plan growth. Manages balance between customer centricity, enablement of sales, and cost effectiveness.

• Provides business insights and recommendations to peers and stakeholders to achieve revenue and profitability goals and drive shareholder return, including. Resource allocation, cost optimization, revenue generation, trends, and future requirements. Manages and executes processes through engagement with internal and external stakeholders. Collaborates with business leaders to define action plans for financial and business analysis findings.
• 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 data collection, analysis, interpretation, and financial models. Provides advice and direction to teammates and peers on data management and operations.
• Leads efforts to leverage technology to increase productivity (e.g., report optimization) and to ensure accurate conclusions.
• Integrates varied data sources and assimilates the information into a comprehensive, clear narrative. Communicates results in a compelling and understandable message. Articulates understanding and awareness of business partner situation.

• 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.

• Embody our culture and values

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.

• Advanced financial modeling expertise
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written
• Able to work cross functionally across many altitudes
• Demonstrated deep business partnership skills and ability to build relationships