Senior Finance Manager

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

2d • $97,600 - $206,400

About The Position

Microsoft’s Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Finance team partners with Microsoft Cloud Planning, Azure Engineering, and Finance to align capacity investments with server demand, supply availability, utilization, and business priorities. The IBP Server Planning Finance team drives financial and strategic alignment across capacity planning to support forecast accuracy, revenue objectives, margin growth, transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments, and shareholder interests.

As a Senior Finance Manager on the IBP Server Planning team, you will connect demand, supply, capacity, and financial planning across forecast, close, budget, and long-range planning (LRP). You will work across Finance, Capacity Planning, Azure Engineering, and workload teams to translate capacity requirements and utilization insights into clear financial and business decisions. The role calls for strong analytical capability, strategic thinking, and effectiveness in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Employees work with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate toward shared goals, guided by respect, integrity, accountability, and inclusion.

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.

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 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 sound investment and resource allocation decisions.
• Drive strategic alignment across IBP, ship room, and other ROB activities, including close, forecast, budget, and LRP, integrating capacity and financial perspectives.
• 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, balancing capacity requirements, utilization, financial impact, and business priorities.
• Analyze the 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 to respond to changing business requirements.
• Embody Microsoft culture and values.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; additional benefits and pay information is available through the linked Microsoft careers page.

What This Job Offers

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