Senior Finance Manager - Strategic Mission Technologies

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. The Microsoft Margin Strategy and Investment Optimization finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft's Cloud-first strategy. We are looking for a talented and motivated individual to help shape the future of our cloud products.

The team's charter is to partner with the Strategic Missions and Technology engineering teams to focus on next generation opportunities in areas like quantum computing, space, telecommunications, and federal business. Strategic Mission Technologies (SMT) is a division that aims to accelerate the growth of these important emerging businesses. while ensuring mission solutions, cloud services, and all offerings achieve both revenue and operating margin growth. As a crucial member of the team, you'll also support long-term bets to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition, all while enhancing transparency into Microsoft investments and safeguarding shareholder interests.

Our Cloud Investment Strategy team is seeking a Senior Finance Manager responsible for driving the financial evaluation of mission-related opportunities in support of Microsoft's work with the United States Government, United States Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, Federal government, and mission partners.

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

Other Requirements:

• Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
• US Citizenship required to meet federal government security requirements.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.

The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.

Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep modeling capabilities and ability to work with financial and business systems.
• Experience and familiarity with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR).
• Ability to think end to end from strategic planning through multi-year execution; and to model the financial investments and impact accordingly.
• Proven leadership skills, with demonstrated results in proactively driving and delivering high value/high-impact project results through both individual and v-team efforts.
• Demonstrated partnering capabilities, with the ability to influence others without direct authority.
• Executive level oral and written communication skills; ability to communicate complex analysis in a clear, simple way through PowerPoint.
• Thorough and detail oriented.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity across a continuously evolving, fast-paced business.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and to work under tight deadlines.
• High level of motivation and autonomy; ability to quickly identify what needs to be accomplished and resourcefulness to get things done.

Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $91,800 - $178,800 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 $117,900 - $195,000 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

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:

This role will lead the integration of classified Profit & Loss management, controllership, and compliance for Microsoft cloud products.

Core responsibilities will include:

• Partnering with product teams to provide cost and price transparency for all cloud products
• Validating internal cost sharing processes
• addressing revenue recognition and revenue reporting
• Partnering with the US field teams including Commerce partners, mission engineering partners, and corporate finance teams to deliver end-to-end financial assessments and communicate the investments, risks, and economics of potential opportunities.
• As needed, provide customer-facing financial analysis for emerging opportunities.

This role is a great opportunity to:

• Partner across diverse finance, operations, business planning, and engineering teams to drive execution of Microsoft's cloud strategy
• Enhance transparency into end-to-end processes and partnerships to identify and drive accountability within accreditation constraints
• Be a trusted business partner to commerce and central finance teams to ensure regulatory and contractual compliance
• Develop and implement processes and frameworks to accelerate, simplify, and scale Microsoft Cloud's investment processes
• Engage in continuous learning of Microsoft Cloud services, infrastructure, operations, go-to-market, and long-term cloud economics