Overview

Are you interested in helping the Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) organization drive cloud transformation with customers? In an era of unprecedented volume of cybersecurity attacks, our customers’ need to secure their environments has not been more urgent and important. Microsoft’s cohesive Security story across our products is differentiated, resonates with our customers, and is a critical growth opportunity.

The Finance Manager, Security FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis), will be responsible for driving the Security business in the Americas. It is a unique and exciting opportunity for deep business partnership with stakeholders, including Sales Enablement & Operations, and will have a blend of rhythm-of-the-business (RoB) activities and analytics to drive business decision making. The role will be responsible for leveraging frameworks to analyze business health, defining business problems and proposing analytical recommendations to solve, influencing decision making and measuring the follow-through in the Security business. You will drive not just revenue, but also consumption/usage of products already sold, providing the opportunity to focus on both short-term goals and longer-term success. Additionally, working closely with counterparts in finance communities across Americas finance team, finance teams from other subsidiaries and HQ (headquarters) finance teams to scale the insights and ensure broader company success. Curiosity, ability to work independently, ownership-mindset and passion for the subject area will all be critical to success. Please bring your enthusiasm!

At Microsoft, our mission—to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more—guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress—people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone. 

Responsibilities

Partnership

Communicates recurring and ad-hoc results in a logical and understandable message through storytelling.
Learns and applies the foundational aspects of Microsoft Finance (e.g., financial systems, policies and procedures, key metrics, historical performance, reporting, and forecast requirements) and business (e.g., market, key drivers of profitability) to collect information, perform technical analysis and modeling, and complete standardized reporting. Understand strategies to proactively mitigate, or reactively address, potential adverse effects of macroeconomic and/or geopolitical risks.
Collects customer and partner feedback data and assists with data analysis to improve experience. Begins to gain exposure and build relationships with internal and external business partners.
Supports business decision making for partners for all expense, and compliance questions related to reporting and analysis. Contributes insights for financial plans, variance analysis, resource optimization, investments, key performance indicators (KPIs), long-range planning, and driving margin accountability in order to provide partners with data-driven insights to make business decisions. Manages and executes processes through engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
Improves current methods used in collecting data, developing automated financial reporting and forecasting tools, and creating standard and ad-hoc reports. Learns how advanced technology is leveraged in Finance and across Microsoft to provide greater depth of analysis.

Prioritize

Assists in the execution of annual business planning and forecasting process. Gathers insight and contributes to analysis and research to support preliminary and adjusted forecast cycles.
Determines operating revenue and expenses compared to expected budget and projections. Identifies variances to provide insights to management and inform future projections and resource management. Contributes to the analysis of present and future financial performance of various products, segments, or other businesses. Assists more established team members to conduct analysis and research studies of financial plans (e.g., expected returns, resource allocation, pricing, investment opportunities, revenue, operational metrics, productivity metrics), acquisition activity, and future opportunities.
Provides support to peers and counterparts during financial close periods. Prepares recurring financial reporting, forecasts, and presentations. Makes updates as necessary through the reporting cycles. Determines financial results (e.g., revenue, COGS - Cost of Goods Sold, OPEX - Operating Expenses) compared to expected budget and projections.
Assembles and summarizes data through data mining and business intelligence to structure reports and financial models for decision support. Leverages statistical analyses, predictive analytics, and financial modeling techniques to conduct sophisticated analyses.

Protect

Ensures documentation and reporting is accessible for internal and external auditors (e.g., local governments). Facilitates dialogue between business stakeholders and internal audit team (shift partner organizations).
Ensures compliance with company policies, legal standards, and regulatory requirements by reviewing and monitoring the accuracy of financial documents and business processes. Drives corrective measures. Supports questions regarding documentation, policy adherence, and requirements. Recommends approved instruments and processes. Understands and adheres to financial compliance standards, Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards.
Reviews financial and budgetary reports to ensure accuracy and support of internal controls. Monitors accuracy of financial documents and execution of control processes. Performs corrective measures.

Other

Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

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

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

Masters Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 3+ 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 5+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience OR equivalent experience.

#Finance

Financial Analysis IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $76,800 - $151,900 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 $100,800 - $168,000 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.