Microsoft Senior Finance Manager - Built Azure 

United States, Washington 

339840377

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Required / Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years experience in 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 experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ year(s) experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.
• 1+ year(s) work experience in matrix-based organization.
• 1+ year(s) work experience in the technology or software industry.
• MBA preferred.
• Partnering capabilities, with the ability to influence business partners without direct authority and to appropriately push back when required.
• Motivated person who thrives in ambiguous, fast moving environments with evolving technology and business model trends.
• Prefer deep understanding of the technology industry, particularly commercial public and private cloud services, business models and economics.
• Ability to communicate complex analysis in a simple way. Executive level oral and written communication skills.
• Leadership skills, with demonstrated results in proactively driving and delivering high value/high-impact project results through both individual and virtual-team efforts.
• Analytical skills, financial modeling capabilities, and ability to think strategically.
• Comfort working at multiple altitudes, from strategic/high-level projects to detailed Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) analysis.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks under tight deadlines, quickly prioritize for impact and the resourcefulness to deliver.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Lead day-to-day partnership engineering to drive best-in-class profitability by understanding the margin implications for services along with driving low unit cost down for the portfolio.
• Lead the efficiency forum (Margin Accountability Plan) in partnership with engineering Leadership Team
• Partner with revenue business health / planning teams and engineering partners to drive towards north star margin
• Partner with the engineering and product marketing teams to support new product launches
• Manage financial health through defined Objectives Key Results (OKRs) and Profit & Loss from our internal tools (Gross Margin Health). Flag risks and opportunities thereof
• Partner across finance orgs, including revenue planning, infrastructure, Research & Development, and Financial Planning & Analysis to drive results.
• Articulate findings into high quality communications and facilitate executive decision making across Cloud +Engineering business and finance executive leaders.