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Overview

We are looking for Finance leaders to join our Commercial Product Infra and Margins Team to build out end-to-end Microsoft Cloud and AI Infrastructure, drive down unit cost of capacity and ensure Microsoft’s AI and Cloud services achieve both revenue and gross margin growth. As a crucial member of the team, you’ll also support long term bets and drive competitive intelligence to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition. All while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments, safeguarding shareholder interest.

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.

Responsibilities

Partnership

+ Communicates recurring and ad-hoc results in a logical and understandable message through storytelling.

+ Learns and applies the foundational aspects of Microsoft Finance and business to collect information, perform technical analysis and modeling, and complete standardized reporting.

+ Supports business decision making for partners, contributes insights for financial plans, variance analysis, resource optimization, investments, key performance indicators (KPIs), long-range planning, and driving margin accountability. Manages and executes processes through engagement with internal and external stakeholders.

+ Improves current methods used in collecting data, developing automated financial reporting and forecasting tools, and creating standard and ad-hoc reports. Learns how advanced technology is leveraged in Finance and across Microsoft to provide greater depth of analysis.

Prioritize

+ Assists in the execution of annual business planning and forecasting process. Gathers insight and contributes to analysis and research to support preliminary and adjusted forecast cycles.

+ Determines operating revenue and expenses compared to expected budget and projections. Identifies variances to provide insights to management and inform future projections and resource management. Contributes to the analysis of present and future financial performance of various products, segments, or other businesses. Assists more senior team members to conduct analysis and research studies of financial plans (e.g., expected returns, resource allocation, pricing, investment opportunities, revenue, operational metrics, productivity metrics), acquisition activity, and future opportunities.

+ Provides support to peers and counterparts during financial close periods. Prepares recurring financial reporting, forecasts, and presentations. Makes updates as necessary through the reporting cycles. Determines financial results (e.g., revenue, COGS, OPEX) compared to expected budget and projections.

+ Assembles and summarizes data through data mining and business intelligence to structure reports and financial models for decision support. Leverages statistical analyses, predictive analytics, and financial modeling techniques to conduct sophisticated analyses.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

+ Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field

+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership, 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 3+ 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 5+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience

+ OR equivalent experience.

Financial Analysis IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $76,800 - $151,900 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 $100,800 - $168,000 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)