Microsoft Finance Manager - Cloud Applications Revenue Forecast & Planning Analytics 

United States, Washington, Redmond 

173875595

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership, finance, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.

• This role requires you to be onsite at our Redmond, WA hub 3+ days a week

Preferred Qualifications

• Reliable analytics and critical thinking accompanied with advanced excel modeling skills
• Able to synthesize large amounts of data and complex scenarios, and formulate and build business cases that drive insight and optimal economic decisions
• Meticulous, thorough, and detail-oriented, yet able to see “the forest for the trees”
• Clear communication style and able to adapt the altitude and surface area of your content to the audience (from director-level all the way to the SLT)
• Self-motivated; able to handle a high degree of ambiguity and quickly identify what needs to be accomplished across multiple concurrent workstreams and stakeholders, yet able to push back where needed
• Desire for technology and curious to further learn the how and why behind the numbers

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 April 15, 2025.

Prioritize

• Financial modeling: Build robust, driver-based financial models to guide decision-making on business structure, strategy, pricing, revenue, and strategic direction
• Financial analysis: Conduct financial analysis to provide health of business readouts and trends, and articulate those findings to finance and marketing leadership to support decision making
• Rhythm of Business: Conduct regular revenue and key performance indicators reviews, develop quarterly forecast and target, and support business reviews
• Business Health: Define and land key performance KPIs to assist in assessing EA/CSP/OLS business health and driving strategic goals across Microsoft leadership and Microsoft’s sales organization
• Annual target setting: Drive reporting, rhythms and deep horizontal analytics during the target setting process focused on sales motion and pricing level drivers in alignment with CPF and MCAPS

Partnership

• Partner with our Cloud Application Revenue Finance teams, Central Finance team, MCAPS Finance and Corporate Accounting to help build the M365 and Copilot story focused on the what and the why on business performance and actions that are required to ensure the business remains healthy, sustainable and able to hit short and long term goals
• Provides businessinsights and recommendations to peers and stakeholders to achieve revenue and profitability goals and drive shareholder return.
• Applies advanced understanding of Microsoft Finance and business (e.g., monetization strategy, market, key drivers, revenue channels, advanced technology, and business partner work context) to multiple situations to evaluate results and analysis. Develops and manages strategies to proactively mitigate, or reactively address, potential adverse effects of macroeconomic and/or geopolitical risks. Maintains working knowledge of Microsoft financial systems, policies, and processes to evaluate potential impacts of changes, and drives improvements in efficiency and accuracy.
• Contributes to new and unconventional methods and approaches to data collection, analysis, interpretation, and financial models. Provides advice and direction to teammates and peers on data management and operations.
• Leads efforts to leverage technology to increase productivity (e.g., report optimization) and to ensure accurate conclusions.
• Integrates varied data sources and assimilates the information into a comprehensive, clear narrative. Communicates results in a compelling and understandable message. Articulates understanding andawareness of business partner situation.

Protect

• Ensures compliance with company policies, legal standards, and regulatory requirements by reviewing and monitoring accuracy of financial documents and business processes. Drives corrective measures. Consults with business partners on sharing financial information, approved instruments and processes, and consistency with corporate policies. Collaborates with Compliance groups to ensure the team is current on company policies and procedures.

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