Senior Finance Manager - Hardware Cost
Redmond, Washington
Employer: Microsoft
Industry: Finance
Salary: $94600 - $183800 per year
Job type: Full-Time
Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That is 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 optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully.
The Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving team at the forefront of Microsoft's Cloud-first strategy. We are looking for talented and motivated individuals to help shape the future of our cloud products. The team's charter is to build out end to end Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure while driving down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve gross margin growth. As a crucial member of the team, you will support short and long-term investments leveraging extensive modeling and market intelligence. The focus is hardware cost reduction initiatives from product concept to production approval to ramp, keeping Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition, while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments and safeguarding shareholder interest.
The Cloud Hardware and Emerging Technologies team is responsible for the gross margin health of the different cloud businesses through a focus on emerging technologies and hardware solutions. The Senior Finance Manager - Hardware Cost is a critical part of this team, ensuring the Microsoft Cloud businesses achieve the gross margin targets by proactively optimizing our roadmap investments from targeted hardware solutions. This includes decision support for approved offerings, technologies, programs, and investments, defining financial models, developing, and managing KPI's agreed to as part of the development process, including total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis for optimization, and margin accountability.
We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager - Hardware Cost who has curiosity to learn the Azure business and wants to make impact through partnership with key finance and engineering partners, continuous process improvements, and driving business insight.
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.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Required/Minimum Qualifications
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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
The Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving team at the forefront of Microsoft's Cloud-first strategy. We are looking for talented and motivated individuals to help shape the future of our cloud products. The team's charter is to build out end to end Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure while driving down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve gross margin growth. As a crucial member of the team, you will support short and long-term investments leveraging extensive modeling and market intelligence. The focus is hardware cost reduction initiatives from product concept to production approval to ramp, keeping Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition, while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments and safeguarding shareholder interest.
The Cloud Hardware and Emerging Technologies team is responsible for the gross margin health of the different cloud businesses through a focus on emerging technologies and hardware solutions. The Senior Finance Manager - Hardware Cost is a critical part of this team, ensuring the Microsoft Cloud businesses achieve the gross margin targets by proactively optimizing our roadmap investments from targeted hardware solutions. This includes decision support for approved offerings, technologies, programs, and investments, defining financial models, developing, and managing KPI's agreed to as part of the development process, including total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis for optimization, and margin accountability.
We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager - Hardware Cost who has curiosity to learn the Azure business and wants to make impact through partnership with key finance and engineering partners, continuous process improvements, and driving business insight.
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.
Responsibilities:
- Provide insightful cost management and program analysis focused on short to long-range planning and roadmap products, and achieving gross margin targets.
- Collaborate with finance, engineering, product development, and the Azure business groups, to drive product profitability, identifying cross-functional efficiencies for many of the most important businesses to Azure's profitability
- Collaborate with planning teams to define, forecast and support optimal development strategies.
- Contribute to Hardware Development processes to drive accountability and track progress towards TCO margin goals.
- Continuously improve and evolve insights through crisp financial analysis and KPIs influencing and impacting the business.
- Articulate findings into deliverables to enable decision making across executive engineering, business, and finance leaders.
- Embody our Culture & Values
Qualifications:
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
- Established leadership skills with analytical modeling and strategic thinking experience
- Proven data and financial modeling capabilities and ability to work with financial systems
- Ability to communicate complex analysis in a straightforward way. Executive level oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated results proactively driving and delivering high value/high-impact project through both individual and v-team efforts
- Proficient collaboration capabilities, with ability to influence others without direct authority and appropriately push back as required
- Comfortable working at multiple altitudes, from strategic/high-level projects to detailed Cost Of Goods Sold analysis
- Prior experience in product cost and/or product development finance is highly valued
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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Created: 2024-08-22
Reference: 1747114
Country: United States
State: Washington
City: Redmond
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