Microsoft Senior Finance Manager 

United States, Washington 

57656942

Why is this the right place for you?​

• Now is the time and place to accelerate your career development and velocity by understanding and driving the strategic importance of cost leadership, a core competency for future finance leaders. ​
• Develop a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) mindset and influence leadership to drive expense management and resource allocation decisions – continuously aligning investments and costs with a prioritized engineering product road-map.​
• Bring fresh energy and innovation to solve complex short and long-term problems in the new AI transformational age.​
• Build deep trusted relationships to collaborate across a wide variety of teams at Microsoft, including engineering leaders, Product Revenue and Margin teams, Central Finance Team, Global Workplace Services, Procurement and Human Resources. ​
• Highly driven team with an emphasis on fun!​

The MSIO Experiences + Devices (E+D) Investment Optimization Finance team is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to partner with the Windows + Devices (W+D) organization to optimize their engineering investments and manage their resources.  W+D leads the company strategy for Windows Client and Devices, driving innovation, growth and support for the ecosystem with new technology and categories to continue to change the world with our products & services.

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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience.
• Experience with Hardware related product life cycle is a plus
• Experience establishing frameworks and processes
• Proficient financial modeling and analysis skills
• Trusted business partnership experience
• Ability to manage multiple projects/priorities
• Ability to translate financial analysis and insights into meaningful and actionable business communications and recommendations

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 25, 2024.

This role supports the Windows + Devices engineering team within E+D and works closely with the Engineering groups, as well as the central E+D Investment Optimization & Enablement Finance teams. You will be a motivated and agile system thinker, demonstrating intellectual curiosity and navigating ambiguity and complexity to be the trusted finance adviser to our engineering leaders and drive success for our business partners.​

• Business and Finance Partnership : Provide leadership to the business and other Finance teams with respect to financial management, resource prioritization and allocation. Ensure technology investments are aligned to key priorities and recommend opportunities to re-allocate and re-deploy resources. Drive analytical and conceptual thinking with these partners that extends beyond the numbers into strategy.

• Long Range Planning : Responsible for partnering with other finance teams to do Return on Investment (ROI) analysis on new initiatives and long-range planning. Communicate required deliverables clearly and facilitate reviews with leaders in a timely manner.

• Process Improvement : Own refining the non-people management process with the business and apply learnings for W+D and to E+D for better accuracy in forecasting. Influence the decision making related to non-people investment decisions by the business.

• Decision Support : Apply strategic thinking to maximize Engineering investments and ensure investments are aligned to key priorities. Proactively recommend opportunities to re-allocate and re-deploy resources. Clearly communicate recommendations and scenario analysis to finance and business leaders.

• Financial Analysis : Take a macro-level view to analyzing results to understand performance against plan/forecast. Monitor trends and key levers, such as headcount and vendor investment against plan/forecast assumptions. Actively communicate across multiple stakeholders to ensure successful end-to-end understanding of portfolios, processes, and planning.

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