Senior Finance Manager - Data & Built On Azure
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 05, 2025 | |
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OverviewEmpower 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 Commercial Product Infrastructure Team (CPI) team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft's Cloud-first strategy. The Data and Built on Azure team's charter is to optimize gross margin for Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) portfolios. As a crucial member of the team, you'll also support long term bets and drive competitive intelligence to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition. All while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments, safeguarding shareholder interest.
ResponsibilitiesWe are looking for a highly motivated Senior Finance Manager - to partner with engineering and business leaders to deeply understand, influence, and optimize margins in Azure. To be successful, the individual needs to be highly collaborative, self-motivated and curious. Lead day-to-day partnership with engineering to drive best-in-class profitability by deeply understanding the economics of the products and driving unit cost down for the portfolio.Lead the efficiency forum in partnership with engineering Leadership TeamPartner with revenue business health / planning teams and engineering partners to drive towards north star margin goalsPartner with the engineering and product marketing teams to support new product launches as the gross margin Subject Matter Expert (SME)Manage financial health through defined Objectives Key Results (OKRs) and Profit & Loss financial statements. Flag risks and opportunities in a timely manner and drive execution to address.Partner across finance orgs, including revenue planning, infrastructure, Research & Development, and Financial Planning & Analysis to drive results.Articulate findings into high quality communications and facilitate executive decision making across Cloud +Engineering business and finance executive leaders. | |