Business Manager, Financial Planning & Operations (Copilot, Apps, and Platform, CTO Exec Office)

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Copilot, Agents, and Platform (CAP) CTO organization is hiring a Business Manager to join its Executive Office. This role manages people, non-people, and discretionary budgets and provides reporting and insights that help leaders make informed workforce and investment decisions. It works closely with the Chief of Staff, CTO, leadership team, Finance, HR, Global Talent Acquisition, Procurement, engineering leaders, purchase-order owners, and administrative partners. The role combines horizontal and vertical responsibilities. It contributes to CAP CTO financial governance, workforce practices, reporting, AI-enabled process improvement, and cross-team initiatives, while supporting aligned leadership teams with their workforce and budget portfolios. Day to day, the work moves between financial analysis, data reconciliation, leadership reporting, workforce and funding actions, partner problem-solving, and support for organizational transitions. This opportunity is well suited to someone with strong financial and analytical judgment, exceptional organization and attention to detail, discretion with sensitive information, and the ability to create clarity when information is incomplete. Success means leaders have reliable workforce and budget information, risks and choices are communicated early, actions close on time, and recurring work becomes simpler and more scalable.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 4+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR equivalent experience.
Strong analytical and financial judgment, with the ability to move from accurate execution to forecasting, scenario analysis, and clear recommendations.
Exceptional organization and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, deadlines, and stakeholders.
The ability to build trusted relationships across Finance, HR, Procurement, and Business Support, and to present a clear point of view.
Sound judgment and discretion when handling sensitive employee, organizational, and compensation-adjacent information.
Experience building or improving AI-enabled workflows that enhance human expertise and produce measurable business value.

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 6+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 8+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR equivalent experience.
4+ years experience in financial management, business planning, budget management, business or operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles .
Demonstrated organizational experience, managing multiple projects with different deliverables and timelines simultaneously.
Ability to create and maintain positive relationships, influence and collaborate internally and externally.
Experience leveraging AI tools and processes.
Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate details and data into clear strategy for leadership and varied audiences.
Experience with Power BI.
Experience with resource allocation management tools, such as The Oracle/ The RAMP, Insights HR, and MSRA.

Responsibilities

Coordinates resource allocation and workforce planning for CAP CTO and aligned leadership teams, including consolidating inputs, developing scenarios, maintaining data, executing decisions, tracking actions, and communicating risks and options.
Manages funded headcount and position-number reconciliation, hiring and backfill plans, university and intern hiring inputs, transfers, mobility, location actions, workforce forecasts, and related system updates.
Manages non-people and discretionary budgets across vendors, purchase orders, cloud and GPU capacity, AI token spend, and related investments, including targets, controls, forecasts, audits, and regular reviews.
Delivers regular and ad hoc reporting on workforce, spend, forecasts, and investment performance, identifying trends, risks, opportunities, and choices, and translating them into clear insights and recommendations.
Supports the workforce-related dimensions of organizational health, including org hygiene, workforce and geographic mix, compliance training, and employee signals that affect workforce or investment decisions.
Helps transform the portfolio of recurring workforce and budget-management work using AI by identifying manual work, building centralized tooling and automated workflows, measuring improvements, and sharing proven prompts, skills, and practices.