Senior Finance Manager

Microsoft’s Azure Planning and Health Team under Commercial Products and Infra Finance is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to help operate and expand the AI-enabled workflows that support Azure Business Health. The team partners with Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to help drive real performance outcomes and develops budgets, forecasts, and close views alongside deep customer-level analytics for a $100B+ cloud business. This role will focus on building and maintaining agentic tools for the team to improve the efficiency and depth of the work created for our business partners.

This is a hands-on role at the intersection of finance, analytics, and automation. The successful candidate will combine sound financial judgment with the technical curiosity, creativity, and discipline needed to make these workflows reliable, maintainable, and efficient. This role will own day-to-day execution, ongoing improvements, and new workflow development within Azure Business Health. This highly visible role will put you at the forefront of developing highly usable applications of AI. 

• Own the day-to-day maintenance of the team’s agentic close processes, including recurring refreshes, monthly rollover, troubleshooting, and report publication.
• Use AI-assisted development and automation to reduce manual effort, shorten turnaround times, and improve consistency.
• Maintain the connections between source data, analytical logic, shared definitions, and executive reporting so outputs remain accurate, consistent, and traceable.
• Diagnose and resolve issues across data queries, calculations, scripts, dashboards, and publishing workflows while preserving existing functionality.
• Build practical, reusable workflows for close, forecasting, business reviews, and recurring analysis
• Connect existing analytical capabilities into end-to-end processes rather than creating disconnected tools or duplicating work.
• Build solutions that are straightforward to operate and extend, with clear ownership and appropriate safeguards for financial data and shared outputs.
• Understand Azure revenue drivers and the financial definitions underlying the team’s reporting.
• Reconcile outputs to authoritative sources and distinguish actuals, plans, forecasts, and preliminary results.
• Turn complex analysis into clear dashboards and views that support leadership reviews.
•  culture and values  

Required/minimum 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.
• Highly proficient in using AI-assisted tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Claude, Copilot) to develop, debug, or improve workflows, with the judgment to validate generated code and financial outputs.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience with progressive advancement within your discipline
• BS/BA degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Information Systems, including related disciplines, or MBA preferred
• Ability to troubleshoot across data sources, transformation logic, and reporting layers—not just create a dashboard or prototype.
• Strong attention to detail and a demonstrated ability to maintain reliable processes in a fast-changing environment.
• Excellent cross group collaboration skills including the ability to comfortably communicate with executive management at Microsoft
• Ability to effectively manage multiple inputs across many stakeholders, prioritizing the effort on main drivers
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at a very fast pace
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking and creativity
• Show propensity for learning, and demonstrate ability to identify, analyze, interpret, and deliver sound solutions
• Executive level oral and written communication skills, including ability to communicate complex analysis and models in a simple way and to interact with both individual contributors and leaders

Financial Analysis 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.