Finance Manager, Azure Compute

OVERVIEW: The team’s charter is to build out end to end Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure while driving down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve both profit 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.

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

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.

• Partner with the Azure Compute Engineering leadership team to identify and prioritize investments for sustained margin growth
• Be a trusted advisor and build working relationships with the Azure Compute leadership team
• In partnership with engineering teams, co-own the product roadmap. Drive clear, consistent planning assumptions, financial performance expectations across cross-functional teams with clear, consistent assumptions around margin expectations, and engineering efficiencies (utilization, hardware density, etc)
• Collaborate with engineering, business planning and finance counterparts to define Virtual Machines product enhancements, support market share acceleration and margin growth.
• Deliver quarterly financial, operational review with EG leaders, clearly communicating results and recommendations to senior business leaders. Own analysis of key metrics, visualization Insights and investment recommendation to key executives

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent written and verbal communications
• Thorough and detailed oriented, while summarizing analysis to drive broader business context and insight
• Comfortable handling ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at fast pace
• Able to manage multiple work streams and prioritize as needed
• Strong partnering capabilities, collaborative and inclusive when working with others
• Synthesize and communicate analyses; provide insight to senior leaders and business partners

Financial Analysis IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $77,800 - $153,700 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 $102,200 - $169,900 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.