Senior Finance Manager
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Apr 17, 2025 | |
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OverviewTransformative Opportunity: Senior Finance Manager - Consumer Marketing OrganizationAre you ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic and fast-paced environment? Join our team as a Senior Finance Manager and play a pivotal role in shaping the managing resources and partner relationships in the world of Copilot + PCs. This position offers a unique opportunity to partner with business leaders and drive strategic investments that will propel our division to new heights.
ResponsibilitiesWhat You'll Do:Drive Strategic Partnerships:Collaborate effectively with a diverse group of leaders, technical project leads, business managers, and cross-company finance and operational teams.Identify areas of opportunity and create mutually beneficial solutions for business and finance challenges, directly influencing the success and growth of our organization.Lead Finance Rhythm of Business and Planning:Business Planning: Plan, communicate, and execute the rhythm of business, including close, quarterly forecasting, and annual planning timelines and deliverables. Your work will ensure that our financial strategies align with our business goals.Month End Close: Manage the monthly fiscal close process, submit journal entries, and provide reporting results and variance commentary to convey the business story. Your insights will be crucial in guiding decision-making.Process Excellence: Manage budgets throughout the year, act as the single point of contact for budget and forecast accuracy, and partner across organizations to implement process improvements. Your efforts will enhance efficiency, agility, discipline, and execution excellence.Deliver Financial Analysis & Insight:Understand Business Models: Develop an understanding of Microsoft's business models and their respective revenue and growth drivers (short and long-term). Your expertise will help shape our financial strategies.Performance and Expense Analysis: Identify and apply reliable and verifiable measurements to analyze business and investment performance. Monitor key investment drivers and trends to ensure optimal resource allocation.Financial Analysis: Partner with stakeholders to develop and utilize return on investment (ROI) models to support existing and new investments. Drive actionable insights and recommendations based on analysis, directly impacting our financial success.Provide Financial Reporting:Deliver accurate and timely information to business partners, highlighting results, key drivers, risks, opportunities, and dependencies. Your reporting will be instrumental in guiding strategic decisions.Highlight opportunities to automate and improve reporting processes within the confines of available tools, ensuring that our financial operations are as efficient as possible. | |