Are you passionate about influencing Microsoft’s financial and strategic direction? Join the Revenue, Gross Margin and Planning team within the Central Finance Team (CFT). As a Senior Finance Manager you will be at the hub of Microsoft’s financial activities, providing critical insights that drive business decisions and managing forecasting and reporting processes. You will serve as a strategic partner to a diverse set of stakeholders, including CFOs, Leadership, engineering groups, and sales and marketing teams. Your work will influence how executives, the Board of Directors, Wall Street analysts, shareholders, and employees understand Microsoft’s financial outlook.

The Commercial BI team within CFT has a broad remit: ensuring the Commercial business has the right optics to plan, monitor and raise business conversations on discounting and renewal health.

We partner with a variety of finance stakeholders across all of finance to orchestrate and frame discussions around Commercial business metrics and KPIs, as well as custom ad-hoc analytic solutions.

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:

• Lead “rhythm-of-reporting” across stakeholders to ensure timely, accurate monthly and quarterly close.
• Drive business definition and governance on our Renewal Health Framework in alignment with business and finance partners across the company in the Commercial business (MCAPS, EGs).
• Partner to eliminate manual efforts for data cleansing – through automation, machine learning, etc.
• Own standard reporting and intake process for enhancements to our reporting solution for renewals.
• Foster collaboration across our finance community to address ad-hoc analytics in service of appropriate business conversations to drive renewal health and execution.
• Leverage data analytics resources and expertise in other teams to drive predictive analytics on renewals.
• Embody our culture and values

Required Qualifications:

• 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 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 equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.
• 1+ year(s) work experience in matrix-based organization.
• 1+ year(s) work experience in the technology or software industry.