Microsoft
Full TimeThis Senior Finance Manager role sits at the center of Microsoft's AI business, leading the margin analytics and business health insights that inform executive decision-making across one of the company's fastest-growing businesses. The role partners closely with revenue, deal, product health, accounting, planning, and finance teams to develop a comprehensive view of AI business performance, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and drive alignment across stakeholders. Success in this role requires strong analytical rigor, executive communication, and the ability to influence outcomes without direct authority, ensuring the AI Margin Rhythm of Business operates smoothly, compliantly, and with a consistent focus on business performance and profitability.
Own the monthly and quarterly business health narrative for AI product margins, connecting financial results, operational KPIs, and business drivers to identify risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
Partner with revenue, deal, product health, corporate accounting, Central FP&A, and planning teams to align on key assumptions and improve forecast accuracy, while retaining ownership of margin-driver analysis and business interpretation.
Develop and continuously improve COGS, gross margin, and unit-economics insights, including actionable driver analysis that influences engineering and business decisions.
Leverage AI tools to improve rhythm-of-business processes, automate recurring analysis, and increase the speed and quality of insights.
Monitor financial health through defined OKRs, P&L results, and operational metrics; surface emerging risks and opportunities and drive cross-functional follow-through.
Translate complex findings into executive-grade communications and facilitate decisions across engineering, marketing, and finance leadership.
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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.
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Microsoft builds Windows, Azure, Office and the Copilot family of AI assistants, and operates one of the largest AI training and inference fleets in the world. Microsoft Research and the AI platform teams work across foundation models, systems for large-scale training, and applied ML in every product line.
Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, the company is also OpenAI's principal compute partner and ships AI tooling for developers through GitHub, VS Code and Azure AI.
98K - 188K Yearly
United States Hybrid
