Senior Finance Manager

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

15h

About The Position

As a Senior Finance Manager on Microsoft’s Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Server Planning team, you will connect demand, supply, capacity, and financial planning across forecast, close, budget, and long-range planning. You will partner with Finance, Capacity Planning, Azure Engineering, Cloud Planning, and workload teams to translate capacity requirements and utilization insights into clear financial and business decisions. The role supports capacity investment alignment with server demand, supply availability, utilization, and business priorities, helping maintain forecast accuracy, achieve revenue objectives, support margin growth, and enhance transparency into cloud infrastructure investments. The position calls for strong analytical capability and strategic thinking, along with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment. You will contribute to investment and resource-allocation decisions, influence capacity strategy, and provide leadership with financial insights on outlook, risks, opportunities, forecast changes, and longer-term investment requirements. Microsoft emphasizes a growth mindset, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, accountability, and an inclusive culture.

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 those fields and 4+ years of relevant experience; or equivalent experience.
Strong analytical capability and strategic thinking.
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or a related field and 6+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance experience; or a bachelor’s degree in one of those fields and 8+ years of post-graduate relevant experience; or equivalent experience.
2+ years of experience in infrastructure finance.
2+ years of work experience in a matrix-based organization.
2+ years of work experience in the technology or software industry.

Responsibilities

Lead Microsoft Compute planning and serve as a finance partner to capacity planning teams, influencing strategy and supporting investment and resource-allocation decisions.
Drive strategic alignment across IBP, ship room, and other rhythm-of-business activities, including close, forecast, budget, and long-range planning.
Build and maintain metrics to track business performance and influence capacity strategy, focusing on utilization, supply-demand alignment, and optimization of existing capacity.
Influence capacity shaping for processor, platform, and infrastructure mix while balancing capacity requirements, utilization, financial impact, and business priorities.
Analyze financial and operational drivers behind monthly Azure server and infrastructure planning changes and help ensure forecast fidelity and reasonableness.
Partner with Azure Engineering, Cloud Planning, Finance, and workload owners to validate capacity changes, understand key drivers, and support appropriate server and infrastructure resource allocation.
Lead financial analysis and modeling for strategic capacity initiatives, long-range planning scenarios, new responsibilities, and ad hoc business needs; translate complex inputs into actionable leadership insights.
Provide clear financial insights on capacity outlook, risks, opportunities, forecast changes, and longer-term investment requirements to support decisions across planning horizons.
Drive simplification, consistency, and financial discipline across capacity planning processes while maintaining flexibility for changing business requirements.
Embody Microsoft culture and values.