Microsoft Senior Finance Manager - Hardware Cost 

United States, Washington 

540023628

down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve gross margin growth. As a crucial member of the team, you will support short and long-term investments leveraging extensive modeling and market intelligence.

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, or related field
  • 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, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• Established leadership skills with analytical modeling and strategic thinking experience
• Proven data and financial modeling capabilities and ability to work with financial systems
• Ability to communicate complex analysis in a straightforward way. Executive level oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated results proactively driving and delivering high value/high-impact project through both individual and v-team efforts
• Proficient collaboration capabilities, with ability to influence others without direct authority and appropriately push back as required
• Comfortable working at multiple altitudes, from strategic/high-level projects to detailed Cost Of Goods Sold analysis
• Prior experience in product cost and/or product development finance is highly valued

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

• Provide insightful cost management and program analysis focused on short to long-range planning and roadmap products, and achieving gross margin targets.
• Collaborate with finance, engineering, product development, and the Azure business groups, to drive product profitability, identifying cross-functional efficiencies for many of the most important businesses to Azure's profitability
• Collaborate with planning teams to define, forecast and support optimal development strategies.
• Contribute to Hardware Development processes to drive accountability and track progress towards TCO margin goals.
• Continuously improve and evolve insights through crisp financial analysis and KPIs influencing and impacting the business.
• Articulate findings into deliverables to enable decision making across executive engineering, business, and finance leaders.
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