Group Finance Manager - Data Center Long Lead Equipment

Overview

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. Embracing our cloud-first strategy, we deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully. Microsoft’s Commercial Product Infrastructure (CPI) team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy. We are looking for a talented and motivated individual to help shape the future of our cloud products.

The Cloud Infra and Supply Execution (CISE) finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy. The CISE finance team is responsible for supporting delivering cloud capacity at the right time, right place and right cost. We’re seeking a Group Finance Manager to lead forward looking capital analytics, inventory finance governance, and warehousing strategy. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. 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. 

Responsibilities

The role requires a high degree of agility and skill in navigating multiple stakeholder requirements while enabling the accelerated growth aspirations for the business in a highly competitive market environment. To be successful, the individual needs to be highly collaborative, self-motivated and be curious in learning.

• Own end to end capital analytics for LLE: build multi year investment models, scenario analyses, and pacing recommendations balancing supply security, capital efficiency, and unit cost reduction.
• Lead financial evaluation of sourcing and contract structures with procurement and engineering (price curves, indexation, risk/benefit tradeoffs, make/buy, staging depth) to optimize economics.
• Establish and maintain LLE/warehousing KPIs (inventory turns, carrying cost, obsolescence risk, storage utilization, cost to build impact) and drive data backed actions.
• Translate strategy into finance rhythms: embed assumptions into budget/LRP/forecast; quantify risks/opportunities; provide clear narratives for senior reviews.
• Strengthen reporting accuracy and controls for LLE and warehousing (capitalization, policy alignment, commitments, variance tracking, audit readiness).
• Drive process and tooling improvements that increase automation, data quality, and cross team decision velocity across equipment staging and warehouse footprint planning.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field
  • OR Master'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

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 12+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
  • OR equivalent experience
• Demonstrated expertise in financial modeling (NPV/IRR, sensitivity, price/volume mix), forecasting, and scenario planning for capital intensive programs.
• Proven ability to partner across engineering, procurement, operations, influencing decisions with clear narratives and well structured analyses.
• Understanding of inventory/accounting mechanics (capitalization policies, carrying costs, write downs, controls) and portfolio governance.
• Advanced proficiency with Excel/Power BI (or similar), and the ability to connect disparate data sources into executive ready insights. 

Financial Analysis IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $116,900 - $203,600 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 $148,400 - $222,600 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.

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