Overview
Do you want to be part of a close‑knit, high‑performing finance team that partners closely with senior leadership to drive business outcomes across the Americas? We are seeking a highly collaborative, energetic, and business‑oriented finance leader to own the Americas SME&C P&L and serve as a trusted partner to both Finance and senior leadership teams.
The successful candidate will bring a strong track record in finance business partnering and the ability to manage end‑to‑end Americas SME&C P&L, including close, forecasting, budgeting, and planning. Success in this role requires strong financial modeling and forecasting capabilities, a solid understanding of data and reporting, and the ability to translate complex financial insights into clear, concise executive‑level narratives. A strong sense of curiosity, analytical rigor, and the ability to influence and drive action across stakeholders are critical.
As a member of the Americas P&L team, you will partner with a broad set of stakeholders, including SME&C team, HR, GTA, and Central Finance teams. You will play a key leadership role in driving ROB orchestration, leading close and forecast rhythms, landing worldwide finance initiatives, and continuously identifying opportunities for standardization, simplification, and strengthened financial controls.
Responsibilities
Partnership
- Develops new approaches to leverage best-in-class technology (e.g., Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Predictive Analytics etc.) to accomplish goals. Contributes to efforts to implement technology to increase productivity (e.g., report optimization) and to ensure accurate conclusions.
- Provides trusted financial partnership to SME&C business leaders, translating complex financial data into clear insights that support P&L decision‑making, trade‑offs, and accountability.
- Integrates multiple data sources (revenue, OPEX, HC, investments) into a cohesive financial narrative that explains performance drivers, risks, and outlook versus plan and forecast.
- Partners closely with Sales, Operations, and Strategy leaders to balance revenue growth, cost discipline, and margin outcomes, ensuring financial implications are clearly understood before decisions are made.
- Delivers actionable recommendations on resource allocation, cost optimization, investment prioritization, and productivity to drive P&L performance and shareholder value.
- Applies deep understanding of Microsoft Finance policies, financial systems, and forecasting mechanics to evaluate results, challenge assumptions, and ensure financial conclusions are sound and defensible.
Prioritize
- Owns and drives Americas SME&C P&L performance management, OPEX, and HC, ensuring accurate forecasting, variance analysis, and clear explanations of drivers.
- Leads close, forecast, and business planning cycles, providing timely insights to business leaders and ensuring forecast accuracy, consistency, and alignment with corporate guidance.
- Identifies trends, risks, and opportunities, translating analysis into concrete action plans and follow‑ups with accountable owners.
- Supports annual and in‑year planning processes, including budget setting, resource reallocation, and scenario modeling to support changing business conditions.
- Ensures data quality and modeling discipline, advising on data limitations, assumptions, and trade‑offs to support reliable decision‑making.
Protect
- Ensures integrity of financial reporting and internal controls, reviewing financial and budgetary reports to confirm accuracy, completeness, and compliance with policies.
- Owns compliance across accounting, statutory, and regulatory requirements, coordinating with Regional, Corporate, and local Finance teams as needed.
- Partners with Internal and External Audit, ensuring timely responses, high‑quality documentation, and closure of findings.
- Monitors and enforces adherence to Microsoft finance, privacy, security, and ethical standards, proactively identifying and mitigating financial and compliance risks.
- Translates accounting, regulatory, and policy changes into business impact, ensuring Americas SME&C leadership understands implications and required actions.
- Ensures revenue recognition, expense treatment, and disclosures are consistently applied and aligned with Microsoft policies and SEC requirements.
Other
- Embody our culture and values.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
- Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ 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 4+ 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
- Masters Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ 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 8+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ year(s) experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.
- 1+ year(s) work experience in matrix-based organization.
- 1+ year(s) work experience in the technology or software industry.
Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $97,600.00 - $188,400.00 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 $125,000.00 - $206,400.00 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.**