Sr. Finance Manager, Gaming Advertising Finance
About The Position
The Senior Finance Manager, Gaming Advertising Finance partners with Gaming and Advertising business leaders to shape strategy, allocate resources, and translate financial and business performance drivers into actionable insights. The role uses financial analysis and knowledge of the Gaming Ads business to inform long-range plans, investment decisions, and profitable growth while maintaining strong financial controls and compliance. The position owns the financial rhythm of Gaming Ads across forecasting, month-end close, planning, quota support, and performance analytics. It translates business drivers and product roadmaps into financial models and operating structures that improve predictability, identify risks and opportunities, and connect investments and initiatives to measurable outcomes. The role builds scalable approaches for forecasting, performance measurement, return-on-investment evaluation, and initiative tracking, aligning leaders across Xbox, King, Microsoft Casual Gaming, and Microsoft Advertising. It also mentors team members and engages regularly with senior stakeholders up to General Manager.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or a related field and at least 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 at least 4 years of relevant experience; or equivalent experience.
- Experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership, finance, or a related field.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or a related field and at least 6 years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience; or a bachelor’s degree in one of these fields and at least 8 years of post-graduate relevant work experience; or equivalent experience.
- At least 1 year of experience in multinational, multi-product or multi-segment finance roles.
- At least 1 year of work experience in a matrix-based organization.
- At least 1 year of work experience in the technology or software industry.
Responsibilities
- Lead Gaming Ads financial processes across forecasting, month-end close, planning, quota support, and performance analytics, providing leaders with a clear view of performance, risks, and opportunities.
- Determine Gaming Ads operating revenue and expenses and conduct variance analyses to identify business drivers and recommend actions to improve performance and optimize resource allocation.
- Analyze, model, and research current and future financial performance, including expected returns, resource allocation, pricing, investment opportunities, revenue, and operational and productivity metrics.
- Develop and evolve scalable financial models, reporting frameworks, and performance measurement approaches to improve predictability, track initiatives, and connect strategic priorities, investments, and product roadmaps to measurable outcomes.
- Build relationships with product, engineering, sales, and finance partners to understand and manage business risk, drive accountability, and influence leaders through data-driven insights and storytelling.
- Mentor team members in Gaming Ads finance and engage regularly with senior stakeholders up to General Manager.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
