Finance Manager – Central Finance Team

Overview
The goal of the Revenue and Gross Margin team 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, Senior Leadership Team, engineering groups, and sales and marketing teams. As a member of the Commercial Business Intelligence (CBI) team, you will be part of a team of analysts focused on holistically analyzing the progression and behavior of our commercial revenue. Our team provides actionable insight and foresight to product, sales, operations, planning, marketing, and finance partners, and shapes the future of how we measure business health.

The Finance Manager in our team helps us transform the way we measure business performance, manage resources, and lead financial activities using business intelligence, modeling, and analytics. As the Finance Manager – Central Finance Team, you will have a unique opportunity to use your insights and strategic thinking to partner with leaders on financial decisions, investments, efficiency, and process transformation projects. 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 positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

1. Provide insights and recommendations to achieve revenue goals and collaborate with partners to define financial analysis action plans.
2. Effectively communicate business performance through storytelling.
3. Partner with key stakeholders to deep dive on volume licensing, discounting, and renewals performance drivers.
4. Support Investor Relations on various close and forecast analytics and ensure accuracy of metrics published externally.
5. Lead projects to improve commercial reporting and analysis across close, forecast, and budget.
6. Partner to eliminate manual efforts for data cleansing – through AI, automation, machine learning, etc.
7. Embody our culture and values.

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