Are you excited by the challenge of helping Microsoft launch complex commercial offerings quickly, clearly, and responsibly? As a Senior Finance Launch Manager in Planning and Launch Finance Compliance, you will coordinate cross-functional execution that turns ambiguous business ideas into structured launch plans, clear ownership, and informed readiness decisions.
You will join the New Commerce Finance Compliance Engagement Team within Microsoft Planning and Launch, partnering across Business Planning, Business Development, Finance subject matter experts, Engineering, Operations, and Customer Readiness. In this role, you will clarify launch intent and scope, coordinate required teams, monitor compliance execution, identify and escalate risks, and help drive launches through go/no-go, deployment, and hypercare.
This is a high-visibility opportunity for a finance compliance professional who thrives in ambiguity, creates clarity across functions, influences without authority, and applies disciplined governance while supporting strategic, customized, and fast-moving launch priorities.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We foster a culture of growth, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, and accountability where everyone can thrive.
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.
- Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in finance or related field AND 4+ years experience in finance or financial compliance OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in launch management, program management, business operations, finance compliance operations, product operations, or a related function.
- Organizational and analytical skills, including the ability to use status, test results, and dashboard metrics to manage competing priorities and fast-moving timelines.
- Ability to influence without authority, formalize stakeholder governance, and coordinate decisions across senior stakeholders and delivery teams.
- Ability to identify and escalate emerging risks, recommend mitigation actions, and translate financial implications into clear decisions.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial controls, compliance requirements, risk identification, monitoring, and remediation. Experience coordinating cross-functional launches with business, engineering, finance, operations, support, and customer-facing stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to clarify intent, define scope and scenarios, identify dependencies, monitor execution, and drive accountability across multiple workstreams.
- Experience supporting AI, Azure, specialized business development, or other highly customized commercial deal constructs.
- Experience defining project or pilot scope, success criteria, customer eligibility, pricing or discount parameters, and operational enablement steps.
- Experience partnering with engineering teams on costing, design readiness, dependency tracking, test readiness, user acceptance testing, or release execution.
- Experience working with operations teams across product configuration, billing, customer readiness, migration, run state, support, or supply planning.
- Experience working across complex organizations, influencing stakeholders, and navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks, audit and monitoring processes, governance tools, remediation practices, and launch readiness controls.
- Experience improving processes through automation, systems integration, governance forums, decision logs, training, and scalable operating frameworks.
Finance Compliance IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $97,600 - $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 $125,000 - $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
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.
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