Finance Manager Cloud Gross Margin Health And Analytics

Overview

We are looking for top Finance talent to join our Commercial Product Infra and Margins (CPIM) Team to build out end-to-end Microsoft Cloud and AI Infrastructure, drive down unit cost of capacity and ensure Microsoft’s AI and Cloud services achieve both revenue and gross margin growth. As a crucial member of the team, you’ll also support long-term bets and drive competitive intelligence to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition. All while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments, safeguarding shareholder interest.

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

The Finance Manager will be a critical part of the Cloud Gross Margin team supporting the Healthcare & Life Sciences business. Healthcare represents a high‑growth, AI‑intensive vertical for Microsoft where Copilot drives both near‑term productivity ROI for customers and long‑term expansion of cloud and AI monetization across the Microsoft ecosystem. In this role, you will be a key strategic partner to the business by developing critical driver based models that enable our Healthcare products to scale to meet customer demand while still achieving overall efficiency targets.

We are looking for an initiative-taking individual who has curiosity to learn the business and wants to make impact through strong partnership with key stakeholders, continuous process improvements, and driving business insight.

This Role Is a Wonderful Opportunity To

• Own the non-GPU internal Azure COGS spend across the Healthcare portfolio. This includes building a deep partnership with engineering to understand underlying business trends that drive costs, helping identify and drive efficiency commitments, and projecting spend by products and services for forecasts and planning cycles
• Support month end close activities including:
• Owning end-end P+L reporting including providing insightful variance analysis and recommendations for improving future forecast accuracy
• Submitting updates to critical allocations rules and interfacing with accounting on any necessary journal entries
• Lead Product Pnl reporting and forecasting to enable deeper insights into profitability of key strategic products within the Healthcare portfolio
• Apply continuous improvement mindset to all tasks and lead efforts to streamline processes, increase accuracy, and create better linkage of spend to underlying drivers
• Undertake ad-hoc projects to the support the strategic mission of the Healthcare business and the CPIM organization
• Collaborate with Finance teams across CPI to maintain accuracy of Product P+Ls and share learnings across teams
• Be a SME for key systems and tools including (Internal Azure Cube, Alfred, Mercury, PBI) to support team ROB processes
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications;

• Bachelors 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 Masters 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 equivalent experience
• Established leadership skills with strong analytical modelling and strategic thinking
  

Preferred Qualifications

Our team values the following set of skills, which this role will help you enhance:

• 4+ years of relevant experience with progressive advancement within your discipline
• Proven data and financial modeling capabilities and ability to work with financial systems
• Ability to communicate complex analysis in a straightforward way. Executive level oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated results proactively driving and delivering high value/high-impact project through both individual and v-team efforts
• Initiative-taker driving best-in-class decision support in ambiguous environments
• Strong collaboration capabilities, with ability to influence others without direct authority and appropriately push back as required
• Comfort working at multiple altitudes, from strategic/high-level projects to detailed COGS analysis
• Ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines, quickly prioritize impact and the resourcefulness to deliver
  
  

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.

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