Finance Manager, Central Finance Team
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 22, 2024 | |
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OverviewThe goal of Central Finance Team (CFT) is to provide key insights that help Microsoft make better financial and business decisions. Our team is at the hub of Microsoft's financial activities, being a key strategic partner to all sides of the business and serving a diverse set of stakeholders: CFOs, top Leadership Team, engineering groups, and sales and marketing teams. We are looking for a Finance Manager, Central Finance Team, with efficient modeling and analytical skills. This role cuts across revenue, gross margin and planning initiatives and requires advance executive presence to land key messages with Microsoft leadership team. The person needs to have desire and drive to understand the business model and drivers across Microsoft business portfolio. You will use that knowledge to drive our fiscal year planning process and supporting strategic presentations to our executives, board, and sales organization. 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.In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positivelyimpactour culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesA successful candidate should be able to analyze Microsoft revenue and gross margin drivers. Candidate should be comfortable operating in ambiguity/ whitespace topics as the role will require creating frameworks, as we navigate through the AI era. Ability to build cross-team relationships effectively and communicate clearly and succinctly to management will be critical for this role. Core responsibilities include: Lead strategic customer solution areas framework and help evolve based on leadership directives Lead AI P&L reporting process and framework within Central Finance team and support driving governance and requirement for systems & tools Support fiscal year planning process, partnering across Finance to align on revenue and margin targets Analyze margin trends across the company to set appropriate goals by business for the upcoming year and make recommendations to Corporate Finance leadership Identify key metrics to help focus strategic direction of the company Partner with the Office of the CFO to prepare presentations for executive and board of directors Drive special projects as requiredEmbody our culture and values | |