Microsoft Senior Finance Program Manager 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

88567293

Required 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
• Strong Program Management expereince of at least 2 years running world-wide initiatives

• Knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure/Azure cost drivers and optimization opportunities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to collaborate with various cross-functional teams
• 5+ year(s) experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles in technology or software industry.
• Chartered Accountant (CA) or MBA Finance Degree.
• Strong competency in Excel / Power BI and analyzing and structuring large data sets.

1. Reporting, Analytics & Insights - Data being at the forefront, candidate to be hands-on with BI and other analytical tools to:

• Bring driver-based insights, including identifying trends and anomalies
• Reporting through simplified BI dashboard (Bringing data points from various sources and automate the insights / action recommendations )
• Establish savings target and optimization through review and prioritization of orgs/workloads

2. Partnership: Act as a program manager to

• Partner with Engineering leaders and efficiency champs of the prioritized orgs
• Align on the cost optimization opportunity, prioritization and target timelines for execution
• Influence decision making and hold the teams accountable for execution

3. Thought Leadership: Run the initiatives as a program through frameworks, agile methodologies, continuous feedback, decision support, monitoring progress and communication

• Create an execution framework/plan (in line with semester planning deliverables)
• Governance - Implement cost governance framework (monitor azure spends, utilization, optimization metrics)
• ROB on progress, updates, risks and opportunities

4. Provide inputs for planning / forecasting

5. SME in Internal Azure optimization