Finance Manager, Cloud Applications Forecast & Planning Analytics

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

Prioritize Financial modeling: Build robust, driver-based financial models to guide decision-making on business structure, strategy, pricing, revenue, and strategic direction Financial analysis: Conduct financial analysis to provide health of business readouts and trends, and articulate those findings to finance and marketing leadership to support decision making Rhythm of Business: Conduct regular revenue and key performance indicators reviews, develop quarterly forecast and target, and support business reviews Annual target setting: Drive reporting, rhythms and deep horizontal analytics during the target setting process focused on sales motion and pricing level drivers in alignment with CPF and MCAPS Provides business insights and recommendations to peers and stakeholders to achieve revenue and profitability goals and drive shareholder return. Develops and manages strategies to proactively mitigate, or reactively address, potential adverse effects of macroeconomic and/or geopolitical risks. Contributes to new and unconventional methods and approaches to data collection, analysis, interpretation, and financial models. Provides advice and direction to teammates and peers on data management and operations. Ensures compliance with company policies, legal standards, and regulatory requirements by reviewing and monitoring accuracy of financial documents and business processes. Collaborates with Compliance groups to ensure the team is current on company policies and procedures.

Requirements

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.
analytics and critical thinking accompanied with strong Excel modeling skills
Able to synthesize large amounts of data and complex scenarios, and formulate and build business cases that drive insight and optimal economic decisions
Meticulous, thorough, and detail-oriented, yet able to see “the forest for the trees”
Clear communication style and able to adapt the altitude and surface area of her or his content to the audience (from director-level all the way to the SLT)
Self-motivated; able to handle a high degree of ambiguity and quickly identify what needs to be accomplished across multiple concurrent workstreams and stakeholders, yet able to push back where needed
2+ years of experience, with clear evidence of significant impact and influence in prior roles
Passion for technology and curious to further learn the how and why behind the numbers

Responsibilities

Build robust, driver-based financial models to guide decision-making on business structure, strategy, pricing, revenue, and strategic direction
Conduct financial analysis to provide health of business readouts and trends, and articulate those findings to finance and marketing leadership to support decision making
Conduct regular revenue and key performance indicators reviews, develop quarterly forecast and target, and support business reviews
Drive reporting, rhythms and deep horizontal analytics during the target setting process focused on sales motion and pricing level drivers in alignment with CPF and MCAPS
Provide business insights and recommendations to peers and stakeholders to achieve revenue and profitability goals and drive shareholder return.
Develop and manage strategies to proactively mitigate, or reactively address, potential adverse effects of macroeconomic and/or geopolitical risks.
Contribute to new and unconventional methods and approaches to data collection, analysis, interpretation, and financial models.
Provide advice and direction to teammates and peers on data management and operations.
Ensure compliance with company policies, legal standards, and regulatory requirements by reviewing and monitoring accuracy of financial documents and business processes.
Collaborate with Compliance groups to ensure the team is current on company policies and procedures.