Job Description

Come join a team at the forefront of Microsoft’s transformation! Cloud & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Finance Revenue Planning provides end to end financial planning support for Cloud + Artificial Intelligence products and cloud services.

As part of our charter, we lead the revenue long range planning for C+AI, provide analytical support for pricing and packaging decisions, and support commercial partnerships and M&A deals from a financial point of view. For all these projects, we work closely with the C+AI Engineering and Marketing teams, Business Development, Corporate Development, and other teams.

We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager to lead the Mixed Reality (MR) finance engagement across all three pillars of MR business - commercial, defense and consumer. The role requires strong business acumen, project management, ability to conceptualize and create business models, and partner well across peer teams. This is a great opportunity to join a fast-growing business within C+AI and a highly collaborative team with multiple opportunities to make a difference and grow your career at Microsoft.

Responsibilities

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Join the fast growing and exciting business of MR. You will help achieve Microsoft’s vision of combining power of Cloud with intelligent devices to create impactful business solutions.
• Drive discussions with CVP level audience on critical business issues across MR pillars
• Become trusted leader to business partners and enable organization to hit our goals (units, revenue, solution attach and share)
• Providing predictability to future performance and understanding of risks and opportunities
• Develop and lead Long Range Planning processes; represent finance in Supply Chain and Operations Planning.
• Piloting the P&L through analysis and insights while ensuring controls, compliance, and data accuracy
• Partner with Business Development to support end to end inorganic growth strategies and driving returns from commercial partnership.
  

Our team values the following sets of skills, which this role will help you enhance:

Analytical

• Deep modeling capabilities which include leveraging internal Microsoft tools, reporting cubes, BI tools, and other financial systems.
• Passion to solve problems, working at multiple altitudes, from strategic and high-level framing to detailed analysis.
• Ability to synthesize complex analysis into key insights to facilitate executive decision making.
• A learning and growth mindset to continue to sharpen our approach to new business challenges.
  

Project management

• Effectively managing and prioritizing multiple inputs, tasks, and stakeholders, sometimes under tight deadlines
• Comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty, in a business that evolves at a very fast pace.
• Self-motivation: quickly identifying what needs to be accomplished and getting it done.
  

Cross-Group Collaboration

• Leadership skills, proactively driving and delivering high-impact results through both individual and v-team effort.
• Strong partnering capabilities, influencing others without direct authority and recommending alternatives to align the group.
• Crisp oral and written communication skills at various levels in the organization
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field AND 4+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
• OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field AND 2+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
• OR equivalent experience
• The successful candidate must be a U.S. Citizen.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Businessdministration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field AND 2+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
• Able to handle diverse stakeholders including senior leaders, in a business with a high degree of ambiguity; must be relentless and push back when required.
• Experience with business intelligence tools and strong financial modeling skills.
• A track record of influencing the business through initiative and providing financial analysis and insight.
• Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements.
  

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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