Overview

Cloud and Artificial Intelligence (C+AI) is the fastest-growing business in Microsoft’s history, with Azure delivering multi-billion-dollar annual growth. This is an exciting and pivotal time to be a part of our business. This role offers the opportunity to be a thought leader and trusted business partner, tackling complex scenarios in revenue planning, business modeling, financial strategy, and partnerships.

We’re hiring a Finance Manager, Revenue Cloud & AI to lead revenue finance for Microsoft’s strategic partnerships. This role will own business health deliverables, develop reporting processes to support product performance analytics, and drive close, forecast, and quarterly review cycles. You’ll influence partnership strategy through deep collaboration across the C+AI Finance organization and business partner teams. We are looking for someone who thrives under ambiguous challenges, works well in fast-paced environments, has a passion for technology, partners well with executives, and roll-ups their sleeves to drive data-based analysis. Ability to frame a complex problem, solid analytical skills, and intellectual curiosity are key to success within our team.

If you are passionate about Azure and AI, want to influence their growth, value deep partnerships, and enjoy working in a fun team environment, then come join us! 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.

Responsibilities

• Leads the execution of annual business planning, monthly close, and quarterly forecasting for AI revenue, and delivers weekly revenue sizing and quarterly outlook insights to our senior leadership team.
• Builds scalable financial models and automated solutions to support decision-making across AI partnerships.
• Delivers monetization frameworks for triangulating GPU demand and supply.
• Highlights tradeoffs, assesses risks and opportunities, and influences pricing and capacity planning decisions in partnership with sales, engineering, and partner finance teams.
• Aligns stakeholders on key performance indicators and expected outcomes. Converts business insights into measurable impact, refines AI business models, and supports long-term revenue strategy for Azure AI.
• Acts as a culture champion driving continuous improvement and leading to “best place to work” environment.
• Drives the right tone from executive leadership and ensures strict adherence and understanding of Microsoft policies on risk and compliance. Influences leadership to ensure compliance is a top priority and modeled throughout the organization.
• Directs team and holds others accountable to ensure financial control processes, policies, instruments, and procedures are executed.
• Guides team and encourages others to identify and share risks to compliance and take steps to mitigate.
• Drives a compliant culture through actions and decisions to instill trust.
• Advocates, educates and promotes best practices and new developments.
• Champions Microsoft privacy, security, and ethical standards. Advances key compliance initiatives.
• Other
• Embody our culture and values

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.
• 2+ years of experience with Microsoft Excel with the ability to extract and synthesize insights from large datasets

Preferred Qualifications –

• Ability to collaborate and be comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing across multiple complex organizations, and creating trusted business partnerships.
• Demonstrated drive; ability to manage multiple projects, have attention to detail, and work under deadlines in a dynamic environment

Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $96,500 - $188,400 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 $123,500 - $206,400 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

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.