Microsoft Looking for Sr. Finance Manager at Redmond, WA Full Time

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. The Microsoft Strategy and Investment Optimization 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 cloud products.

The team’s charter is to build out end to end Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure while driving down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve both profit and gross margin growth. As a crucial member of the team, you’ll also support long term bets and drive competitive intelligence to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition. All while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments, safeguarding shareholder interest.

We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager supporting our cloud global expansion decisions into new geographies, defining, and achieving desired profitability.

Responsibilities

• 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.).
• 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 processed 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 change, and drives improvements in efficiency and accuracy
• 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.

Specifically, the role is a great opportunity to:

• Oversee thought leadership, finance decision support on Microsoft’s long term data center investments across its global regions
• In partnership with engineering teams, co-own the long-range data center demand planning, strategy. Drive clear, consistent planning assumptions across cross-functional teams with clear, consistent assumptions around demand drivers such as end customer consumption, pricing, supply capacity and engineering efficiencies (utilization, hardware density, etc)
• Collaborate with engineering to define operational principles that meet end customer promise, allows market share acceleration, fast-tracks data center utilization to steady state (compete parity) and improves gross-margin scale velocity
• Deliver quarterly financial, operational review with EG leaders, clearly communicating results and recommendations to senior business leaders. Own analysis of key metrics, visualization Insights and investment recommendation to key executives

Qualifications

Our team values the following set of skills, which this role will help you enhance:

Minimum/Required 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:

• Preferred 3+ years of relevant Cloud operations / Manufacturing / Technology Infrastructure finance work experience with clear progression and advancement
• Excellent written and verbal communications
• Thorough and detailed oriented, while summarizing analysis to drive broader business context and insight
• Comfortable handling ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at fast pace
• Able to manage multiple work streams and prioritize as needed
• Strong partnering capabilities, collaborative and inclusive when working with others
• Synthesize and communicate analyses; provide insight to senior leaders and business partners