Financial Analyst

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

15h

About The Position

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.
We are seeking a Financial Analyst to join the Americas Central Analysis & Planning (CAP) Finance Team. The Americas CAP Finance Team is responsible for central analysis and planning support for all revenue processes within the Americas Field Finance Team. This role will be focused on helping to drive many of our key processes, including Annual Budgeting, Quarterly Forecasting, Monthly Performance Reviews, and other key deliverables. This role will work across the organization and have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our Microsoft Americas Commercial business.
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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field
• OR equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Internship to 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership, finance, or related field
• OR equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Responds to ad-hoc requests from team members and peers to identify critical information and support agile changes as needed. Partners to understand and support processes through engagement with finance stakeholders.
• Learns and applies the foundational aspects of Microsoft Finance (e.g., financial systems, policies and procedures, key metrics, historical performance, reporting, and forecast requirements) and business (e.g., market, key drivers of profitability) to collect information, perform technical analysis and modeling, and complete standardized reporting.
• Applies financial acumen to, and contributes to analytics of present and future financial performance of various processes including Budgeting, Forecasting, and Monthly Performance Reviews, with oversight from team members. Ensures integrity and quality of content.
• Prepares data to be used in analyses by data mining/querying and reporting with oversight from team members. Learns how to perform and conducts statistical analyses, predictive analytics, and financial modeling techniques to summarize data using approved software (e.g., PowerBI, Excel) as assigned.

What This Job Offers

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