New 
Finance Manager - Central Finance Team
 Microsoft | |
remote work
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 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 26, 2025 | |
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Overview Join the Central Finance Team - Collaborating for Meaningful Impact The Central Finance Team (CFT) serves as a strategic hub for Microsoft's financial operations, delivering critical insights that enable smarter financial and business decisions. Acting as a key partner across the organization, CFT collaborates with a wide range of stakeholders-including CFOs, senior leadership, engineering groups, and sales and marketing teams-to support and influence decision-making at every level. We are seeking a Finance Manager for the Central Finance Team with deep analytical and modeling expertise to help shape key business decisions. In this role, you will work across revenue, gross margin, and planning initiatives, partnering closely with Microsoft leadership to communicate insights effectively. You'll bring curiosity and drive to understand the business model and the diverse drivers across Microsoft's portfolio. Leveraging that knowledge, you will lead fiscal year planning and contribute to strategic presentations for executives, the board, and our global sales organization. This position offers the opportunity to influence outcomes at scale while collaborating in a dynamic, inclusive environment. We're excited to offer a hybrid role that give you the best of both worlds. You'll get to collaborate in person with your teammates at our Redmond office three days a week, and enjoy the flexibility of remote work the rest of the time. If you love connecting face-to-face and also appreciate some work-from-home days, this could be a great fit for you. Our teamculture is centered around Microsoft corporate valuesand the One Microsoft approach with business partners. Our teamiscomprisedof many individuals withdiversebackgroundsand valuestheuniqueperspectivesand thought processeseachcolleaguebringsto the table.Our teamleans into helpingone another and is not afraid to try new things witha growth mindset mentality. At Microsoft, our mission is simple yet bold: empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. That purpose fuels our Cloudfirst strategy and inspires us to challenge the status quo every day. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities Core Responsibilities Analyze Microsoft's revenue and gross margin drivers to provide actionable insights that drive meaningful impact.Navigate ambiguity and whitespace topics by creating clear frameworks that support decision-making in the evolving AI era, while prioritizing and organizing work effectively in a dynamic environment.Build strong, collaborative relationships across diverse teams and communicate effectively and succinctly with management and senior stakeholders.Lead strategic customer solution area frameworks and adapt them based on leadership guidance, demonstrating commitment to achieving results.Oversee AI P&L reporting processes and frameworks within the Central Finance team, ensuring governance and system/tool requirements are met while maintaining an inclusive and transparent approach.Support the fiscal year planning process by partnering across Finance to align on revenue and margin targets, fostering collaboration and shared accountability.Assess margin trends across the company, set appropriate goals by business for the upcoming year, and make recommendations to Corporate Finance leadership with confidence and clarity.Identify and track key metrics that inform the company's strategic direction, ensuring accessibility and clarity for all stakeholders.Collaborate with the Office of the CFO to prepare presentations for executives and the board of directors, using strong interpersonal and communication skills to convey insights effectively.Embody our culture and values | |