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Senior Finance Manager

Microsoft· Financial Analysis
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Redmond, WA$97.6k - $188.4kfull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Senior Finance Manager on the IBP Server Planning team responsible for connecting demand, supply, capacity and financial planning across forecast, close, budget and long-range planning (LRP) to influence capacity strategy, forecast fidelity and investment decisions for Azure Cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Lead MicrosoftCompute 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, bringing together capacity and financial perspectives.
  • Build and maintain metrics that 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, translating complex inputs into actionable insights for leadership.
  • Provide clear financial insights on capacity outlook, risks, opportunities, forecast changes, and longer-term investment requirements to support decision-making across planning horizons.
  • Drive simplification, consistency, and strong financial discipline across capacity planning processes while maintaining flexibility to respond to changing business requirements.

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:ForecastingFinancial ModelingCross-functional Collaboration
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