Senior Finance Manager
Redmond, WA 
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OverviewEmpower 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. Microsoft's Margin Strategy and Investment Optimization (MSIO) 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 Windows products. The team's charter is to optimize our investments in cloud infrastructure while driving down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve both profit and gross margin growth. As a Senior Finance Manager on this team, you'll also support long term bets and drive competitive intelligence to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of the competition. All while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments and safeguarding shareholder interest. We currently have an opening for an experienced Senior Finance Manager to join the MSIO AI, Webxt and Consumer finance team leading business health for Windows. 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.
ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities Maintain reporting, conduct financial analysis, and provide deep business insights into the Windows product's gross margin performance. Lead monthly and quarterly finance health review with MSIO finance executives to articulate performance vs. expectations and provide cost improvement recommendations to aid margin expansion.Own the operational driver analyses and messaging for sequential quarter over quarter (QoQ) & yearly cost and margin performance for Chief Financial Officer review and preview processes. Provide key insights on business health trends to finance leadership team, the Central Finance team, and Investor Relations.Partner with peers across MSIO, Revenue, controllership, workload owners, and other finance teams to ensure alignment on numbers and consolidate actionable data and variance stories.Execute core monthly financial processes, reporting and provide visibility into execution variance versus plan. Communicate results to partners and facilitate trade off decision making to mitigate financial risk.Lead consolidated forecast, long range planning (LRP), Close, and margin accountability program (MAP) efficiency processes for Windows; leveraging inputs and insights from various line item and workload owners to create consolidated and consistent simplified and actionable reporting.Other Embody our culture and values

 

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