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Overview

The team’s charter is to drive GitHub growth while achieving high‑quality gross margins. As a member of the team, you will also support long‑term strategic initiatives, modernization of GitHub architecture, and contribute to competitive analysis to help keep GitHub well‑positioned in the market — all while enhancing transparency into investments and supporting shareholder interests.

We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager supporting our product margins and strategy, defining key areas for margin expansion for GitHub.

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 support 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

+ Partner with the GitHub leadership team to optimize capacity investments across all cloud capacity platforms.

+ Support modernization of legacy platforms on lowest‑cost SKUs and identify and prioritize investments that contribute to sustained margin growth.

+ Serve as a trusted advisor and build collaborative working relationships with the Azure Compute leadership team.

+ In partnership with engineering teams, co‑own the product roadmap and per‑user economics. Drive clear, consistent planning assumptions and financial performance expectations across cross‑functional teams with aligned assumptions on margin expectations and engineering efficiencies (utilization, hardware density, etc.).

+ Collaborate with engineering, business planning, and finance counterparts to define product enhancements and support market share acceleration and margin growth.

+ Deliver quarterly financial and operational reviews with EG leaders, clearly communicating results and recommendations to senior business leaders. Own analysis of key metrics, visualized insights, and investment recommendations for key executives.

Additional Skills:

+ Effective written and verbal communication skills

+ Thorough and detail‑oriented, with the ability to summarize analysis to provide broader business context and insight

+ Ability to navigate ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at a rapid pace

+ Ability to manage multiple workstreams and prioritize as needed

+ Strong collaboration skills, inclusive and effective when partnering with others

+ Ability to synthesize and communicate analyses and provide insight to senior leaders and business partners

Qualifications

Required/minimum 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.

Additional or 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.

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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations 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)