Core Services Engineering (CSE) Finance helps drive the digital transformation of Microsoft.  Our business partners build and manage the critical products and services that Microsoft runs on.  They rely on finance to help maximize the business impact of big ideas that power transformational advances at Microsoft and our customers, while helping Microsoft teams work smarter, faster, and more securely every day.  CSE finance leaders have deep understanding and business expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions. We are leaders, business partners, digital transformation change agents, and champions of doing the right thing for Microsoft and our customers.  We have exciting opportunities for you to drive, influence, partner, transform, inspire, lead, and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a seasoned Group Finance Manager supporting both the Digital Security and Risk (DSRE) and End User Services Engineering (EUSE) portfolios. This role is a great opportunity to:

• Oversee financial leadership and decision support of DSRE and EUSE engineering teams through a highly engaged and motivated finance team 
• Manage and lead the DSRE and EUSE Finance teams with focus on developing people and the culture by providing perspectives, coaching and training to grow own management and leadership capabilities by learning from team and managers
• Effectively collaborate with engineering leaders, technical project leads, business managers, and cross-company finance and operational teams; identifying and driving large scale analytical projects that maximize the benefit for Microsoft
• Lead monthly, quarterly financial and operational reviews with Business Partners and LT, clearly communicating results and recommendations to senior business leaders
• Partner with Finance Systems & Process efforts to simplify and improve the Finance End User Experience of our internal systems, tools and processes
• Drive finance ROB with business partners for capital forecasting, target setting, budgeting and financial close

Qualifications

Our team values the following set of skills, which this role will help you enhance:

• 10+ years of progressive work experience in a related field
• Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, economics, engineering, math or related field, MBA/CPA preferred
• Experience leading high performing teams and managers required
• Excellent written and verbal communications that synthesize analyses, provide insight to senior leaders and business partners; positively influencing outcomes
• Thorough and detailed oriented, while summarizing analysis to drive broader business context and insight
• Comfortable handling ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at fast pace
• Able to manage multiple work streams and prioritize as needed
• Strong partnering capabilities, collaborative and inclusive when working with others

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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