Senior Finance Manager - Program Management

Overview

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. Microsoft's Commercial Product Investment (CPI) team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft's Cloud-first strategy.

The CPI India Development Center (IDC) Finance team is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to lead the finance partnership to program manage Internal Azure spend optimization and drive efficiencies across WW Engineering global Opex.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 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 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 equivalent experience
• Strong Program Management expereince of at least 2 years running world-wide initiatives

• Hands on experience in Cloud Infrastructure OR Azure cost drivers and optimization opportunities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to collaborate with various cross-functional teams
• 5+ year(s) experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles in technology or software industry.
• Chartered Accountant (CA) or MBA Finance Degree.
• Strong competency in Excel / Power BI and analyzing and structuring large data sets.

Responsibilities

1. Reporting, Analytics & Insights - Data being at the forefront, candidate to be hands-on with BI and other analytical tools to:

• Bring driver-based insights, including identifying trends and anomalies
• Reporting through simplified BI dashboard (Bringing data points from various sources and automate the insights / action recommendations )
• Establish savings target and optimization through review and prioritization of orgs/workloads

2. Partnership: Act as a program manager to

• Partner with Engineering leaders and efficiency champs of the prioritized orgs
• Align on the cost optimization opportunity, prioritization and target timelines for execution
• Influence decision making and hold the teams accountable for execution

3. Thought Leadership: Run the initiatives as a program through frameworks, agile methodologies, continuous feedback, decision support, monitoring progress and communication

• Create an execution framework/plan (in line with semester planning deliverables)
• Governance - Implement cost governance framework (monitor azure spends, utilization, optimization metrics)
• ROB on progress, updates, risks and opportunities

4. Provide inputs for planning / forecasting

5. SME in Internal Azure optimization