Group Finance Manager- Hardware Platform at Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

19 Apr, 26

Salary

203600.0

Posted On

19 Jan, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Financial Analysis, Accounting, Controllership, Data Science, Modeling, KPI Development, Cost Reduction, Investment Analysis, Decision Support, Team Leadership, Strategic Planning, Business Insights, Stakeholder Management, Performance Optimization, Cloud Infrastructure, Emerging Technologies

Industry

Software Development

Description

Overview Group Finance Manager- Hardware Platform Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That is what inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud- first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully. The Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy. We are looking for talented and motivated individuals to help shape the future of our cloud products. 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 gross margin growth. As a crucial member of the team, you will support short and long-term investments leveraging extensive modeling and competitive intelligence. The focus is hardware cost reduction initiatives from product concept to production approval to ramp, keeping Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition, while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments and safeguarding shareholder interest Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully. Responsibilities The Cloud Hardware and Emerging Technologies team is responsible for the GM health of the different cloud businesses through a focus on emerging technologies and hardware solutions. The Compute Hardware Group Finance Manager is a critical leader of this team, ensuring the Microsoft Cloud businesses achieve the gross margin targets by proactively optimizing our roadmap investments from targeted hardware solutions. This includes decision support for approved offerings, technologies, programs, and investments, defining financial models, developing, and managing KPI’s agreed to as part of the development process, including TCO analysis for optimization, and margin accountability. This role is a wonderful opportunity to: Transform complex data into clear, forward looking insights that guide strategic decision making. Communicates key trends and recommendations to senior leadership and develops actionable plans from ambiguous or long term analyses. Coaches the team to simplify data into compelling, actionable narratives and builds shared understanding across business partners. Drives culture, inspires, and prioritizes team to pursue innovation. Applies advanced understanding of Microsoft business, industry, and drivers of shareholder return to ensure senior leaders are presented with the most relevant data, insights, risks, and recommendations necessary to support strategy execution. Leverages business expertise to attract and inspire talent and help others reach their full potential. Evaluates and recommends potential impacts of changes to business models. Partners with senior business and commercial leaders to drive performance and strategy to achieve the best return on investment (ROI) and shareholder return. Gains commitment from stakeholders to align execution and mitigate risk. Guides team to focus on generating actionable business insights to drive profitable growth and shareholder return by being an integral part of the business decision-making process. Partners across boundaries to remediate and resolve complex issues. Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model: Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles. Coach: Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn. Care: Attract and retain great people. Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others. Provides direction to key stakeholders with respect to financial management, resource prioritization and optimizing headcount. Leads business analytics, modeling, and research activities determining present and future financial performance, formulating and evaluating financial plans (e.g., expected returns, resource allocation, pricing, investment opportunities, revenue, operational metrics, productivity metrics), economic transactions (e.g., customer deals, commercial partnerships, acquisitions), and future opportunities. Other Embody Microsoft’s culture and values Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR equivalent experience. This role follows a hybrid work model and is based in Redmond, Washington. Employees are expected to work on-site in Redmond on a regular, recurring basis in alignment with business and team needs. Additional or preferred qualifications Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 12+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience OR Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 15+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience OR equivalent experience. 3+ years experience managing direct reports. 5+ years experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles. 5+ years work experience in matrix-based organization. 5+ years work experience in the technology or software industry. Prior experience in product cost and/or product development finance is highly valued. Financial Analysis M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $116,900 - $203,600 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 $148,400 - $222,600 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.

Responsibilities

The Group Finance Manager will ensure the Microsoft Cloud businesses achieve gross margin targets by optimizing hardware solution investments. This role involves transforming complex data into actionable insights and guiding strategic decision-making.