Microsoft Corporation Hiring for Finance Manager FP&A at Hyderabad, India Full Time

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully. Microsoft’s Margin Strategy and Investment Optimization (MSIO) team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy.

The MSIO IDC Finance team is seeking a Group Finance Manager to lead the FP&A pillar for 10,000+ engineering investment. This position will lead a team of finance managers. In this challenging FP&A role, you will partner closely with IDC leadership team, and will guide and support IDC through planning, forecasting, reporting, financial analysis and business insight. You will partner with a variety of internal stakeholders including engineering and finance leaders in India and in the US, corporate FP&A team and other functional leaders.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Business Partnership : Effective collaboration across India, Redmond and other development centers with senior engineering leaders, HR & staffing partners, technical project leads, business managers, and cross-company finance and operational teams to influence the business results.

• Develop trusted partnerships with, and takes shared responsibility for, generating solutions that drive business leader goals, cost optimization, and maximize return-on-investment (ROI).

• Apply understanding of the broader Microsoft context and external market trends to offer impactful solutions to ensure objectives are met. Articulates a comprehensive view of financial results and approaches leaders can implement.

• Understand the interconnections between data, information, and results and translates this into forward looking narratives and forecasts. Provide clarity and alignment with senior leaders. Generate actionable plans based on complex results, ambiguous findings, and multi-year time horizons. Coach team to translate data into actionable insights.

• Finance Rhythms of business : Managing Budgeting, workforce planning, forecasting and monthly close in alignment with corporate timelines. Continuously improve processes to drive efficiency, prioritization, and cross team collaboration.

• Financial Analytics and Insights : Analyze results to understand performance against plan/forecast. Monitor trends and key drivers, such as cost per head, attrition, recruiting velocity, and vendor investment against plan/forecast assumptions. Proactively recommend a course of action if risk is present.

• Investment Optimization: Work on Resource allocation framework for C+AI Business and provide credible insights into Profit and Loss (P&L) optimization, identifying market opportunities, performance improvements, and achieving growth.

Controls and Compliance: Model a compliant culture through actions and decisions. Inspire others to share risks to compliance and take steps to mitigate

Qualifications

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field AND 10+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong financial modeling and analysis skills

• Strong business partnership experience

• Ability to manage multiple and competing projects/priorities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, translating financial analysis and insights into meaningful and actionable business communications and recommendations

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.

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