Microsoft Senior Finance Manager-Cloud Artificial Intelligence Engineering 

United States, Washington 

987275837

position 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.

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 CFO mindset and influence leadership to drive expense management and resource allocation decisions – continuously aligning investments and costs with a prioritized engineering product roadmap.
• 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!

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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
• Proven communication & presentation skills. Can easily present complex financial issues to non-finance executives
• Proven interpersonal and cross group collaboration skills. Ability to drive simplicity within a complex and matrix environment.
• Proven technical skills (excellent Excel skills required, Power BI and SQL skills preferred)
• Demonstrated experience in developing complex financial models, excellent quantitative analysis and forecasting skills

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

Internal Azure R&D: Partner with Finance and Engineering teams to own Microsoft internal team’s usage of the Azure Cloud platform for R&D spend while continuously driving efficiencies and delivering insights to optimize our use of Azure to meet business and financial goals.

• Business and Finance Partnership:
• 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 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.
• Embody our culture and values.