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Senior Finance Manager - Planning & Launch Finance Compliance

Microsoft· Finance Compliance
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Redmond, WA$97.6k - $188.4kPosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Finance Launch Manager coordinating cross-functional execution to turn ambiguous business ideas into structured launch plans, ownership, and readiness decisions within Microsoft Planning and Launch Finance Compliance. Partners across Business Planning, Business Development, Finance, Engineering, Operations, and Customer Readiness to drive launches through go/no-go, deployment, and hypercare.

Responsibilities

  • Drive end-to-end launch execution. Coordinate day-to-day launch management across Envision, Plan, Execute, Deploy, and Close. Establish clear objectives, intended customer outcomes, success criteria, critical-path dependencies, owners, and go/no-go expectations.
  • Clarify intent, scope, scenarios, and deliverables. Partner with Business Planning, Finance, Engineering, Operations, and Customer Readiness teams to define what is launching, what is in and out of scope, what scenarios must be supported, and what must be delivered before pilot, general availability, or phased release.
  • Engage required teams and formalize governance. Coordinate engineering, operations, finance, customer readiness, support, and business owners. Formalize stakeholder governance, establish engagement rhythms, and surface ownership or coverage gaps.
  • Translate deal mechanics into finance requirements. Partner with finance subject matter experts to develop finance requirements, scenario coverage, controls, and risk-based testing plans that connect commercial intent to expected financial outcomes.
  • Monitor portfolio health and launch decision quality. Maintain status, risks, blockers, decisions, sign-offs, monitoring plans, and dashboard metrics across assigned launches. Use results to reinforce team accountability, coordinate remediation, and escalate issues to management and corporate stakeholders as needed.
  • Identify risks and ensure effective controls. Identify compliance risks 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.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in finance or related field AND 4+ years experience in finance or financial compliance OR equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in launch management, program management, business operations, finance compliance operations, product operations, or a related function.

Skills

Required:Launch managementFinance complianceCross-functional coordinationRisk identification and mitigation
Nice to have:Automation and process improvement
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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