Senior Finance Manager

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

Microsoft’s Azure Planning and Health Team within Commercial Products and Infra Finance is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to operate and expand AI-enabled workflows supporting Azure Business Health. The team partners with Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to drive business performance, develop budgets, forecasts, and close views, and provide customer-level analytics for a $100B+ cloud business. This hands-on role sits at the intersection of finance, analytics, and automation. The Senior Finance Manager will build and maintain agentic tools that improve the efficiency and depth of work delivered to business partners, owning day-to-day execution, ongoing improvements, and development of new workflows. The role requires financial judgment, technical curiosity, creativity, and discipline to make workflows reliable, maintainable, and efficient, and offers the opportunity to develop practical applications of AI.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or a related field and 2+ years of experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership, finance, or a related field; or a bachelor’s degree in one of these fields and 4+ years of relevant experience; or equivalent experience.
Highly proficient in using AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or Copilot to develop, debug, or improve workflows, with the judgment to validate generated code and financial outputs.
Ability to troubleshoot across data sources, transformation logic, and reporting layers—not just create a dashboard or prototype.
Strong attention to detail and demonstrated ability to maintain reliable processes in a fast-changing environment.
Excellent cross-group collaboration skills, including comfort communicating with executive management at Microsoft.
Ability to manage multiple inputs across many stakeholders and prioritize effort on the main drivers.
Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty in a fast-evolving business.
Strong analytical and strategic thinking, and creativity.
Propensity for learning and ability to identify, analyze, interpret, and deliver sound solutions.
Executive-level oral and written communication skills, including ability to communicate complex analysis and models simply and interact with individual contributors and leaders.

Nice To Haves

7+ years of relevant experience with progressive advancement within the discipline.
BS/BA degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or an MBA.

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day maintenance of the team’s agentic close processes, including recurring refreshes, monthly rollover, troubleshooting, and report publication.
Use AI-assisted development and automation to reduce manual effort, shorten turnaround times, and improve consistency.
Maintain connections between source data, analytical logic, shared definitions, and executive reporting so outputs remain accurate, consistent, and traceable.
Diagnose and resolve issues across data queries, calculations, scripts, dashboards, and publishing workflows while preserving existing functionality.
Build practical, reusable workflows for close, forecasting, business reviews, and recurring analysis.
Connect existing analytical capabilities into end-to-end processes rather than creating disconnected tools or duplicating work.
Build solutions that are straightforward to operate and extend, with clear ownership and appropriate safeguards for financial data and shared outputs.
Understand Azure revenue drivers and the financial definitions underlying the team’s reporting.
Reconcile outputs to authoritative sources and distinguish actuals, plans, forecasts, and preliminary results.
Turn complex analysis into clear dashboards and views that support leadership reviews.