Sr. Finance Manager, Gaming Advertising Finance

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

The Senior Finance Manager, Gaming Advertising Finance partners with Gaming and Advertising business leaders to shape strategy, allocate resources, and explain complex performance drivers through clear financial insights. The role applies financial analysis expertise and understanding of the Gaming Ads business to influence 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, surface risks and opportunities, and connect investments and initiatives to measurable outcomes. The manager develops scalable approaches for forecasting, performance measurement, return-on-investment evaluation, and initiative tracking, aligning stakeholders across Xbox, King, Microsoft Casual Gaming, and Microsoft Advertising. The role also mentors team members and works with senior stakeholders, including General Managers.

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 bachelor’s degree in one of these fields and 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 6+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance experience; or bachelor’s degree in one of these fields and 8+ years of such experience; or equivalent experience.
• 1+ year of experience in multinational organizations with multi-product or multi-segment finance roles.
• 1+ year of work experience in a matrix-based organization.
• 1+ year of work experience in the technology or software industry.

Responsibilities

• Lead Gaming Ads' financial business rhythm, including forecasting, month-end close, planning, quota support, and performance analytics.
• Determine 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 that improve predictability and connect priorities, investments, product roadmaps, and initiatives to measurable outcomes.
• Build relationships with partners across product, engineering, sales, and finance to understand and manage business risk, drive accountability, and influence leaders with data-driven insights.
• Mentor team members in Gaming Ads finance and engage regularly with senior stakeholders up to General Manager.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior