Group Finance Manager- Hardware Platform

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That is what inspires

us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-

first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions optimized for the world and enable customers to

drive their business more successfully. The Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Finance team is an

exciting and fast-evolving team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy. We are

looking for talented and motivated individuals to help shape the future of our cloud products.

The team’s charter is to build out end to end Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure while driving

down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve gross margin growth. As a crucial

member of the team, you will support short and long-term investments leveraging extensive

modeling and competitive intelligence. The focus is hardware cost reduction initiatives from

product concept to production approval to ramp, keeping Microsoft Cloud ahead of

competition, while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments and

safeguarding shareholder interest

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully.

The Cloud Hardware and Emerging Technologies team is responsible for the GM health of the

different cloud businesses through a focus on emerging technologies and hardware solutions.

The Compute Hardware Group Finance Manager is a critical leader of this team, ensuring the

Microsoft Cloud businesses achieve the gross margin targets by proactively optimizing our

roadmap investments from targeted hardware solutions. This includes decision support for

approved offerings, technologies, programs, and investments, defining financial models,

developing, and managing KPI’s agreed to as part of the development process, including TCO

analysis for optimization, and margin accountability.

This role is a wonderful opportunity to:

Transform complex data into clear, forward looking insights that guide strategic decision

making. Communicates key trends and recommendations to senior leadership and develops

actionable plans from ambiguous or long term analyses. Coaches the team to simplify data

into compelling, actionable narratives and builds shared understanding across business

partners.

Drives culture, inspires, and prioritizes team to pursue innovation.

Applies advanced understanding of Microsoft business, industry, and drivers of shareholder

return to ensure senior leaders are presented with the most relevant data, insights, risks, and

recommendations necessary to support strategy execution. Leverages business expertise to

attract and inspire talent and help others reach their full potential. Evaluates and recommends potential impacts of changes to business models. Partners with senior business and commercial leaders to drive performance and strategy to achieve the best return on investment (ROI) and shareholder return. Gains commitment from stakeholders to align execution and mitigate risk. Guides team to focus on generating actionable business insights to drive profitable growth and shareholder return by being an integral part of the business decision-making process. Partners across boundaries to remediate and resolve complex issues. Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model: Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles. Coach: Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn. Care: Attract and retain great people. Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others. Provides direction to key stakeholders with respect to financial management, resource prioritization and optimizing headcount. Leads business analytics, modeling, and research activities determining present and future financial performance, formulating and evaluating financial plans (e.g., expected returns, resource allocation, pricing, investment opportunities, revenue, operational metrics, productivity metrics), economic transactions (e.g., customer deals, commercial partnerships, acquisitions), and future opportunities.

Other

Embody Microsoft’s culture and values

Required/minimum qualifications

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 12+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience OR Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 15+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience OR equivalent experience.

• 3+ years experience managing direct reports.
• 5+ years experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.
• 5+ years work experience in matrix-based organization.
• 5+ years work experience in the technology or software industry.
• Prior experience in product cost and/or product development finance is highly valued.

Financial Analysis M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $116,900 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $148,400 - $222,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.