Overview
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. Microsoft’s CPIM team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s AI strategy. We are looking for a talented and motivated individual to join the Core AI team.
The team’s charter is to enable AI transformation and product growth in the most cost-efficient way possible. This role will be responsible for the business health analytics for GitHub.
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.
Responsibilities
Publish executive-grade monthly and quarterly financial and operational summary including insights to highlight risks and opportunities impacting bottom lines in a timely manner. Drive reviews with executive leadership, clearly communicating results and providing recommendations.
Lead day-to-day partnership engineering to drive best-in-class profitability by understanding the margin implications for new services along with driving low unit cost down for the portfolio.
Drive forecasting and analytics of capacity spend for Core Platform and Security products.
Manage financial health through defined objectives and key results (OKRs) and P&L from our internal tools. Flag risks and opportunities thereof.
Articulate findings into high quality communications and facilitate executive decision making across engineering, marketing, and finance executive leaders.
Partner across finance orgs, including revenue, controllership, product health to drive results.
Continuously improve and evolve cost of goods sold (COGS) and Gross Margin insights garnered through financial results and KPIs with goal of influencing/impacting business in positive manner and crisp story telling.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership, finance, or related field
- OR equivalent experience.
** Preferred qualifications**
Masters Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 3+ 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 5+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience OR equivalent experience.
Demonstrated ability to partner effectively and influence stakeholders without direct authority, including exercising sound judgment to challenge when appropriate.
Self-starter who thrives in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with evolving technology and business model trends.
Deep understanding of the technology industry, especially commercial public and private cloud services, including related business models and economics.
Ability to communicate complex analysis in a simple way. Executive level oral and written communication skills.
Proven leadership skills, with demonstrated results in proactively driving and delivering high value/high-impact project results through both individual and virtual-team efforts.
Demonstrated analytical aptitude, financial modeling expertise, and the ability to think strategically.
Financial Analysis IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $77,800 - $153,700 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 $102,200 - $169,900 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.**