Overview
At Team Xbox, we are on a mission to bring joy, excitement, and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. We deliver on that vision by putting players at the core, enabling you to play the games you want, with the people you want, and anywhere you want. Finance is at the center of making this vision a reality.
The Senior Finance Manager, Studios Expense Lead, on our Xbox Game Studios Finance team will play a central role in supporting our 1P (First Party) studios by becoming a subject matter specialist on studio expenses, partnering with our accounting and royalties teams to ensure accuracy and alignment, and collaborating with studios. As our 1P expense lead, you will focus on optimizing our gross margin and accountability margin, as well as lead the centralized work of allocating our central expenses and managing the balance sheet. This role will engage in extensive cross group collaboration across our team of gaming finance controllers, accounting, marketing, and central finance teams to drive margin growth and P&L (Profit & Loss) optimization.
At Microsoft, our mission—to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more—guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress—people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.
Responsibilities
- Partner with a broad set of teams to drive insight and analytics into the key drivers of the first-party gaming business and be an integral part of the gaming finance team.
- Develop subject matter specialty in studio expenses, maintaining high-quality reporting standards and driving forecast accuracy across the studios’ portfolio.
- Serve as a trusted financial advisor to leaders, enabling data driven solutions that support critical strategic initiatives and optimize ROI (Return on Investment).
- Primary point of contact for the first-party studios’ central expenses, working with engineering, accounting, and marketing in setting up proper allocations of central costs to our first-party gaming studios and running periodic reviews of our balance sheet.
- Design new approaches to collecting and evaluating financial data and creating additional value by translating data into actionable insights and implementing creative ways to communicate findings from data.
- Orchestrate the comprehensive system of accounting policies, procedures, and controls, as well as maintain accountability for internal control processes and procedures.
- Drive compliance and controllership objectives through partnerships, and mitigate emerging statutory, tax, regulatory, and fiduciary risks.
- 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.
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.
- 2+ years of experience with Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint; Familiarity or experience with core Microsoft financial analysis and reporting processes and tools is highly valued.
- Ability to develop trusted partnerships with business leaders and other stakeholders.
- Able to handle a high degree of ambiguity and quickly identify what needs to be accomplished across multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Ability to influence others without direct authority and appropriately push back when required.
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Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $96,500 - $188,400 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 $123,500 - $206,400 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.**