Microsoft Senior Finance Manager 

United States, Washington 

659733284

As a member of the E+D/T&R/MSAI Central Finance team, The Senior Finance Manager will support the orchestration and consolidation of resources across E+D, T&R and Microsoft AI. This covers a wide range of responsibilities which includes various modeling and business analysis, finance partnership, and the creation and ownership of efficient financial processes. This Senior Finance Manager role requires a motivated and agile system thinker who can demonstrate intellectual curiosity and navigate ambiguity and complexity to be the trusted finance advisor to our engineering leaders and drive success for our business partners.

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

• Financial analysis experience in a high-tech company
• Driven, self-starter, capable of effectively prioritizing and operating with a high degree of ambiguity in a fast-paced and changing environment
• Proven ability to partner, build trust, communicate with, and influence executives; ability to make the complex simple and influence through effective storytelling
• Ability to influence and impact without authority, operate in ambiguity, and solve difficult problems, combined with the ability to prioritize and function well in a dynamic and matrixed environment
• Interpersonal and cross group collaboration skills. Ability to drive simplicity within a complex and matrix environment
• Proficiency combining, structuring, and mining large volumes of data from disparate sources using tools such as Power BI, Excel, SQL etc.
• Skilled Excel user familiar with advanced functions and charting capabilities
• Understanding the technology industry, particularly in commercial cloud services, business models and economics

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 26, 2024.

Responsibilities

• Business and Finance Partnership : Provide strategic leadership to top Engineering and Finance leaders to drive operating leverage through resource allocation and investment optimization by giving visibility to the current resource landscape, analyzing macro-level results, and applying systems thinking to identify and recommend levers to influence decision-making.
• Business Health : Drive process excellence while partnering across Engineering and Finance to continuously assess the overall health of the business and understand key drivers to identify opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs. Ensure resources and investments are constantly aligned with business strategy, product engineering roadmaps, and company priorities.
• Resource Analysis : builds a cohesive story by incorporating business insights through resource allocation, workforce planning as well as understanding the connection between resource allocation with the overall financial performance. Analyzes results to understand performance against plan/forecast, monitors trends and key levers to support various rhythm of the business and finance.
• Resource Modeling and Reporting : owns, maintains, and improves resource allocation across the E+D, T&R and MSAI Engineering teams at the worldwide level. Publishes executive-grade monthly resource summary, highlighting risks, opportunities and key drivers. Delivers resource reviews with Finance leaders, clearly communicating results and recommendations. Automates and improves reporting processes as much as possible within the confines of available tools.
• Thought Leadership : Leverage holistic analytical framework and best practices across Finance to spot and anticipate trends and deliver insights to unlock greater efficiencies for resource allocation and investment spend.
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