Sr. Finance Manager

Join the Modern Work finance team and play an integral role in shaping our Modern Work Enterprise Go To Market Team, the future of our business. Our Microsoft 365 offering is the world's productivity cloud and the only comprehensive solution that empowers everyone with an integrated, secure experience on any device. Leading organizations are choosing our AI infused premium offerings for their advanced security, communications, and productivity experiences to unlock new scenarios of digital transformation. The team works across engineering, marketing, and sales teams to develop solutions to deliver against this journey of our core products that include productivity, communication, analytics, management, security, and compliance. You will learn partnership and have an ability to impact across many key business functions including product, go to market strategy as well as business planning & development.

The Enterprise Go-To-Market Senior Finance Manager will drive & influence the Enterprise go-to-market strategy across all business levers including seller compensation, pricing/offers, packaging & compete working across engineering, field finance, marketing and business leads. You will have a deep understanding of performance trends and impact of field levers to enable a partnership with marketing and Modern Work strategy teams to identify growth opportunities that support financial/strategic decision making.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Business to business, ideally with a technology company, supporting a Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, or Platform as a Service business model.
• Experience developing trusted partnerships with field, headquarters and business leaders through deep understanding of their business.
• Ability to summarize performance and key stories.
• Able to handle ambiguity and identify what needs to be accomplished across multiple concurrent workstreams and stakeholders, yet able to push back where needed.
• Partnering capabilities, with the ability to influence others without direct authority and appropriately push back when required.
• Comfort with working at multiple altitudes, from strategic/high-level projects to detailed analytics.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Excel and Power Pivot; MS Finance tools preferred.
• Experience in delivering presentations.

Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,600 - $183,800 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 $122,000 - $200,500 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 1, 2024.

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 .

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Responsibilities

Prioritize

• Active participant with Financial Planning & Analysis team in digging into performance trends - what's working/what's not and drive actionable business health analysis through monthly/quarterly rhythms.
• Influence annual target setting process in terms of connecting the dots across all the business levers in the Enterprise space.
• Leads efforts to leverage technology to increase productivity (e.g., report optimization) and to ensure accurate conclusions.
• Analyze and provide meaningful field insights to support decision on Go-to-market strategy design and assessment.
• Drive proactive communications, while supporting key stakeholders

Partnership

• Analyze and measure business performance according to differentiated market strategy ("Area Maturity Framework").
• Drives sales compensation strategy and design to ensure alignment with company product strategy.
• Influence business case and headcount investment decisions to optimize resourcing across roles and geographies.
• Be a champion for sales excellence through understanding and evangelizing Land and Expand ("LXP") with business and finance partners.

Protect

• Ensures compliance with company policies, legal standards, and regulatory requirements by reviewing and monitoring accuracy of financial documents and business processes; drives corrective measures.
• Consults with business partners on sharing financial information, approved instruments and processes, and consistency with corporate policies.
• Collaborates with compliance groups to ensure team is current on company policies and procedures.

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