Finance Manager

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That's what inspires us, drives our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully. The Microsoft Margin Strategy and Investment Optimization finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft's Cloud-first strategy. We are looking for a talented and motivated Finance Manager to help shape the future of our cloud products.

The team's charter is to deliver mission solutions in partnership with the Strategic Missions and Technology team while driving down unit cost of capacity, ensuring mission solutions & cloud services achieve both profit and gross margin growth. As a crucial member of the team you'll also support long term bets to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition, all while enhancing transparency into Microsoft investments and safeguarding shareholder interests.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Our Cloud Investment Strategy team is seeking a Finance Manager responsible for driving the financial evaluation Microsoft's mission work with the U.S. Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, Federal government, and their mission partners.

Responsibilities:

This role will lead Profit & Loss (P&L) management, controllership, and compliance for a set of products with customer-facing deal economics for potential opportunities. Core responsibilities will include business partnering with the United States field teams, mission engineering partners, cloud engineering partners, and corporate finance teams to deliver end-to-end financial assessments and communicate the investments, risks, and economics of potential opportunities.

This role is a great opportunity to:

• Partner across diverse business planning and engineering teams to drive Microsoft's strategy & product delivery
• Refine existing P&L models as products mature

• Develop robust financial models to evaluate investments and to inform customer-specific opportunities
• Be a trusted business partner to commerce and central finance teams to ensure regulatory and contractual compliance
• Analyze return on investments (ROI) and provide decision support to business teams
• Develop and implement processes and frameworks to accelerate, simplify, and scale Microsoft's investment process
• Engage in continuous learning of Microsoft services, government contracting, and go-to-market strategies

Other

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 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 Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Modeling capabilities and ability to work with financial and business systems.
• Experience or familiarity with Federal Acquisition Regulations.
• Ability to think end to end from strategic planning through multi-year execution; and to model the financial investments and impact accordingly.
• Partnering capabilities, with the ability to influence others without direct authority.
• Oral and written communication skills; ability to communicate complex analysis in a clear, simple way through PowerPoint.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity across a continuously evolving, fast-paced business.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and to work under tight deadlines.
• High level of self-motivation and autonomy; ability to quickly identify what needs to be accomplished and resourcefulness to get things done.

Financial Analysis IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $75,100 - $148,900 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $98,800 - $163,300 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 7, 2024

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