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 individual 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.?
Our Cloud Investment Strategy team is seeking?a Senior Finance Manager responsible for driving the financial evaluation of mission-related opportunities in support of Microsoft's work with the?U.S. Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, Federal government, and?their?mission?partners.?
This role is highly strategic with the scope to shape conversations and outcomes with customers, leveraging strategic financial planning skills. The Senior Finance Manager will will lead P&L management, controllership, and compliance for the government clouds. Core responsibilities will include business partnering with the US field teams, mission engineering partners, cloud engineering partners, the national security team, and corporate finance teams to deliver end-to-end financial assessments and communicate the investments, risks, and economics of potential
Responsibilities
Partner across?diverse business planning and engineering teams?to?drive Microsoft's?strategy & execution?
Develop robust financial models to evaluate investments?and to?inform customer-specific opportunities?
Enhance transparency into end-to-end processes and partnerships to identify and drive accountability?
Be?a?trusted business partner to?commerce?and?central finance?teams to ensure?regulatory and contractual?compliance?
Analyze ROI and provide decision support to business teams?
Develop and implement processes and frameworks to accelerate, simplify, and scale Microsoft Cloud's investment process?
Engage in continuous learning of Microsoft Cloud services, infrastructure, operations, go-to-market, and long-term cloud economics?
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field AND 4+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field AND 2+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
OR equivalent experience
Oher Requirements
Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Candidates must have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
Clearance Verification : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check : This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance
Other Qualifications
Deep modeling?capabilities and ability to work with financial?and business?systems.?
Experience and 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.?
Proven leadership skills, with demonstrated results in proactively driving and delivering high value/high-impact project?results through both individual and v-team efforts.?
Demostrated partnering capabilities, with the ability to influence others without direct authority.?
Executive level 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 IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $96,500 - $188,400 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 $123,500 - $206,400 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 August 11, 2025
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .
