Senior Finance Manager - Planning & Launch Finance Compliance

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

2d•$97,600 - $206,400

About The Position

The Senior Finance Launch Manager in Microsoft’s Planning and Launch Finance Compliance organization coordinates cross-functional execution to turn ambiguous commercial business ideas into structured launch plans, clear ownership, and informed readiness decisions. The role is part of the New Commerce Finance Compliance Engagement Team and partners with Business Planning, Business Development, Finance subject matter experts, Engineering, Operations, and Customer Readiness. The position clarifies launch intent and scope, coordinates required teams, monitors compliance execution, identifies and escalates risks, and supports launches through go/no-go decisions, deployment, and hypercare. It calls for a finance compliance professional who can work through ambiguity, create clarity across functions, influence without authority, and apply disciplined governance to strategic, customized, and fast-moving launches.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in finance or a related field and 4+ years of experience in finance or financial compliance, or equivalent experience.
Strong organizational and analytical skills, including using status, test results, and dashboard metrics to manage competing priorities and fast-moving timelines.
Ability to influence without authority, formalize stakeholder governance, and coordinate decisions across senior stakeholders and delivery teams.
Ability to identify and escalate emerging risks, recommend mitigation actions, and translate financial implications into clear decisions.
Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial controls, compliance requirements, risk identification, monitoring, and remediation.
Experience coordinating cross-functional launches with business, engineering, finance, operations, support, and customer-facing stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to clarify intent, define scope and scenarios, identify dependencies, monitor execution, and drive accountability across multiple workstreams.
Experience working across complex organizations, influencing stakeholders, and navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
Knowledge of compliance frameworks, audit and monitoring processes, governance tools, remediation practices, and launch readiness controls.

Nice To Haves

8+ years of experience in launch management, program management, business operations, finance compliance operations, product operations, or a related function.
Experience supporting AI, Azure, specialized business development, or other highly customized commercial deal constructs.
Experience defining project or pilot scope, success criteria, customer eligibility, pricing or discount parameters, and operational enablement steps.
Experience partnering with engineering teams on costing, design readiness, dependency tracking, test readiness, user acceptance testing, or release execution.
Experience working with operations teams across product configuration, billing, customer readiness, migration, run state, support, or supply planning.
Experience improving processes through automation, systems integration, governance forums, decision logs, training, and scalable operating frameworks.

Responsibilities

Coordinate day-to-day end-to-end launch management across Envision, Plan, Execute, Deploy, and Close.
Establish launch objectives, intended customer outcomes, success criteria, critical-path dependencies, owners, and go/no-go expectations.
Partner with Business Planning, Finance, Engineering, Operations, and Customer Readiness to define launch scope, scenarios, and required deliverables before pilot, general availability, or phased release.
Coordinate engineering, operations, finance, customer readiness, support, and business owners; formalize stakeholder governance and engagement rhythms; and surface ownership or coverage gaps.
Partner with finance subject matter experts to develop finance requirements, scenario coverage, controls, and risk-based testing plans tied to commercial intent and expected financial outcomes.
Maintain launch status, risks, blockers, decisions, sign-offs, monitoring plans, and dashboard metrics across assigned launches.
Use launch results to reinforce accountability, coordinate remediation, and escalate issues to management and corporate stakeholders as needed.
Identify compliance and emerging launch risks, assess business and company reputation impacts, and recommend practical mitigation proposals.
Review business and functional team actions to ensure controls operate as intended.