Finance Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

3d • $77,800 - $169,900

About The Position

Corporate Services Finance (CSF) provides financial planning, analysis, and controllership support for Corporate Functions (Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA), Finance, Human Resources (HR), and Microsoft Office of Strategy and Transformation (MOST)). The CSF team is responsible for P&L (profit & loss) management, decision support, and financial stewardship of $12B in annual global expenses. We partner with leaders across Corporate Functions to enable transformation and optimize resources. We're looking for a Finance Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), to join our central CSF FP&A team in a high-visibility analytical role at the center of how CSF plans, forecasts, and governs it's spend. You'll own several core processes outright - OPEX (Operating Expenses) forecast support, people cost and headcount analytics, allocated Azure, and non-GWS CAPEX (Capital Expenditure) forecasting - and you'll be the person who turns those numbers into the insights that shape resource decisions across Corporate Functions. This role will provide you with exposure to the full FP&A cycle, controllers across every Corporate Function, and executive-level reporting, and you'll have real room to redesign the processes you inherit. We're not looking for someone to run the model as it exists today. We're looking for someone who will make it better, faster, and smarter, including by putting AI (artificial intelligence) and automation to work.

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.
• Solid Microsoft Excel modeling skills, with working knowledge of modern analytics tools (Power BI, Power Query/PowerPivot, or similar).
• Demonstrated interest or hands-on experience applying AI and automation to finance processes - building agents, automating reporting, or eliminating manual steps.
• Experience with headcount, people cost, or workforce analytics.
• Experience in a matrixed, multinational organization, or in the technology or software industry.
• Experience with enterprise planning and reporting systems.

Nice To Haves

• Masters Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 3+ 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 5+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience OR equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• OPEX forecast and close support. Support the CSF forecast and close cycles end to end — assumption validation, variance analysis, data integrity checks, and the analysis that feeds our close and forecast decks. Partner with controllers to make sure submissions are accurate, well-understood, and land on time.
• People cost analytics. Own analysis of the largest driver of CSF spend. Evaluate key people cost drivers, build and maintain cost-per-head views by geography, role type, and level, and explain what's moving and why across payroll, stock compensation, signing bonuses, and relocation.
• Organizational hygiene and headcount insights. Analyze organizational shape across CSF — pyramid, span of control, organization depth — and translate that into insight leaders can act on. Bring the "so what" to headcount trends, hiring activity, and the drivers behind people spend.
• Allocated Azure and Non-GWS CAPEX. Own the allocated Azure forecast and the non-GWS CAPEX forecast for G&A (General & Administrative) functions across CSF, including actuals review, variance explanation, and forward-looking outlook.
• Process improvement and automation. Bring a modernization mindset to everything you touch. Identify where reporting and analysis can be standardized, automated, or AI-enabled, and lead those improvements — partnering with our tools and engineering partners where the solution is more complex.
• Flexible team support. Support the broader central FP&A team on ad hoc analysis and special projects. This team moves, priorities shift, and the people who thrive here lean in where they're needed.
• Embody our culture and values

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level