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Posted date: Nov 15, 2024
Category: Finance
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $147,550
Range: $94,600 - $200,500
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Microsoft Margin Strategy and Investment Optimization (MSIO) finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving team at the forefront of driving Microsoft’s AI and Cloud strategy. MSIO is the leading hub of ensuring Microsoft’s Cloud leadership, investing in AI, and driving operating leverage, in partnership with senior executive finance and engineering leaders impacting company-wide decisions.This Senior Finance Manager, Biz Health, MS Security is an integral part of the Security Investment Optimization Finance team that enables Microsoft’s Security and AI ambitions. Cybersecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate.
This role will drive advanced business health and financial planning for Security (cost of goods sold) COGS people investments as a key enabler of Security gross margin north star aspirations. This position will partner with MS Security engineering org and across the broader Finance org to lead a wide range of responsibilities focused on high quality and timely business insights, meaningful financial planning and analysis, efficient performance management, creation and ownership of efficient financial rhythms and processes, and storytelling that enables accelerated and profitable growth.
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.
Partner with engineering and broader finance organization to understand people investments, expenses and headcount results and trends. Communicate insights in a simple and concise manner regarding the state of the business to key stakeholders. Generate actionable plans based on complex results and ambiguous findings. Implement creative ways to show patterns and draw conclusions to help drive decisions. Develop and review multi-year time horizon long range financial spend plans. Business planning and forecasting - Develop and review target setting, forecast and budget models incorporating insights, risk, and opportunities. Ensure consistency in methodologies and assumptions. Improve forecast accuracy. Own, drive and innovate efficient financial rhythms and reporting. Conceptualize and design new approaches to how financial data is collected and evaluated to impact future outcomes and decisions. Understand the interconnections between data, information, and results and translate into forward looking narratives and forecasts. Establish trusted partnerships with and take shared responsibility for driving business outcomes (profitable growth, market share, AI leadership). Apply understanding of the broader Microsoft context and external market trends to offer impactful solutions to ensure business objectives are met. Ensure compliance in reporting financial information through approved instruments and processes, and consistency with corporate policies. Apply understanding of advanced technology to accomplish business goals and provide greater depth of analysis. Drive learning from others and sharing best practices across team boundaries. Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required/Minimum QualificationsBachelor'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 fieldOR 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 fieldOR equivalent experience. Additional or Preferred Qualifications
Proficient technical skills (Excel, Power BI and SQL) Demonstrated experience in developing complex financial models, excellent quantitative analysis and forecasting skills. Ability to influence and impact without authority, operate in ambiguity, and solve difficult problems, combined with the ability to prioritize and function well in a dynamic and matrixed environment. Communication & presentation skills. Can easily present complex financial issues to non-finance executives. Interpersonal and cross group collaboration skills. Ability to drive simplicity within a complex and matrix environment Demonstrated ability to handle multiple tasks under tight deadlines, and quickly prioritize for biggest impact
Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,600 - $183,800 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 $122,000 - $200,500 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 December 6, 2024
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.
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