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Overview

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.

Microsoft Commercial Products & Infrastructure (CPI) finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy. This role is at the center of the reinvention and innovation of our engineering resource allocation opportunity, with partnership with executive finance leaders and impacting company-wide decisions.

This team leader has scope across 7 engineering organizations (C+AI, E+D, Security, CoreAI, MAI, MDQ and T&R) to enable a consistent, portfolio-based view and strategic approach to ensure Microsoft’s $50B+ of annual spend is reflected in accurate, timely and industry-leading views.

Responsibilities

• You will partner with finance leaders to enable visibility on the engineering financial allocation strategy to achieve the best return on investment (ROI) and shareholder return.

• You will design new approaches to collecting and evaluating financial data, and empower your team to drive improvements in data management through automation and early adoption of AI tools. You’ll lead and develop your team to translate data into actionable insights, and implement creative ways to communicate findings from data out to a variety of stakeholders.

• You and your team will create and oversee management of a variety of financial reports/models to support weekly/monthly/quarterly/annual reporting and forecast rhythms, co-lead annual engineering target setting and budgeting efforts for the broader team.

• Innovate analytical framework and methodology based on complex results, ambiguous findings, and multi-year time horizons to enable forward-looking indicators of risk and opportunity,

• Help develop, coordinate, and drive the quarterly and annual financial outlook reviews to support Microsoft’s CFO and senior finance leaders,

• Own the communication management to Microsoft’s CFO and senior finance leadership on risks and opportunities within the engineering investment portfolio,

• Manage and develop a team of 5 to 6 individual contributors through application of our management philosophy of Model, Coach and Care.

This role requires a motivated professional who can collaborate with finance partners throughout our Engineering Finance teams, Corporate Finance teams and our partner organizations. This role provides deep visibility across our datacenters, domestic and international engineering teams. This role supports a flexible work opportunity with the ability to partially work from home.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's 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.

Financial Analysis M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $277,200 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 $165,600 - $303,600 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)