Senior Finance Manager, GitHub

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

If you are looking for exciting business and finance challenges and an opportunity to impact GitHub Strategy, along with a place to grow your career with the business, learn and have fun in the process, this role in the GitHub Strategic Team is for you. Our group is charged with leading product business health and strategic initiatives focused on growing the business and winning new customer deals. We maintain close partnerships with Product Engineering, Revenue, and Sales teams to support and influence decisions through financial modeling and thought leadership. We are hiring a Senior Finance Manager, GitHub, who will be focused on driving GitHub Copilot Business Rhythms (Close, Forecast and Planning) in close collaboration with Sales, Business Planning, Marketing and Finance teams. We are looking for people who thrive under ambiguous challenges, work in a fast-paced environment, have a passion for AI (artificial intelligence) and coding agents, partners well with executives, and can roll-up their sleeves to drive data-based analysis and business predictability. Having the ability to frame a complex problem, as well as leveraging solid analytical skills and intellectual curiosity are key to success within our team. At Microsoft, our mission—to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more—guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress—people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.

Requirements

Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR equivalent experience.
1+ year(s) experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.
1+ year(s) work experience in matrix-based organization.
1+ year(s) work experience in the technology or software industry.
Cross group collaboration skills, including the ability to comfortably communicate with executive management at Microsoft.
Ability to effectively manage multiple inputs across many stakeholders, prioritizing the effort on main drivers.
Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at a very fast pace.
Analytical and strategic thinker.
Ability to identify opportunities for the business to build and nurture relationships across finance and business partners to drive results and insights.
Show propensity for learning, and demonstrate ability to identify, analyze, interpret, and deliver sound solutions.
Executive level communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex analysis and models in a simple way.
Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel and the ability to synthesize insights from large datasets.

Nice To Haves

Masters Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ 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 8+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience OR equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Publish executive-grade weekly, monthly, and quarterly revenue summaries with timely, insight-driven commentary on business health, risks, and opportunities impacting top-line performance.
Lead reviews with executive leadership, clearly communicating results and actionable recommendations.
Drive forecasting and analytics for GitHub Copilot revenue to improve business predictability and decision-making.
Partner with Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to set annual and semi-annual planning targets.
Build robust financial models that navigate ambiguity/uncertainty in fast growing AI business, balance commit and stretch goals, and accelerate market share gains.
Act as a growth catalyst for the business.
Partners across finance organization, including COGS (Cost of Goods Sold), Central Finance, and product health to drive results.
Build and refine robust growth and decision support frameworks to drive partner and ecosystem success.
Conduct financial and scenario analysis to support GTM (Go-to-Market) related offers and incentive programs.
Act as a culture champion driving continuous improvement and leading to a “best place to work” environment.
Drives the right tone from executive leadership and ensures strict adherence and understanding of Microsoft policies on risk and compliance.
Influences leadership to ensure compliance is a top priority and modeled throughout the organization.
Directs team and holds others accountable to ensure financial control processes, policies, instruments, and procedures are executed.
Guides team and encourage others to identify and share risks to compliance and take steps to mitigate.
Drives a compliant culture through actions and decisions to instill trust.
Advocates, educates, and promotes optimal practices and new developments.
Champions Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards.
Advances key compliance initiatives.