Senior Finance Manager, Planning, MS Security
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 15, 2024 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Margin Strategy and Investment Optimization (MSIO) finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving team at the forefront of driving Microsoft's AI and Cloud strategy. MSIO is the leading hub of ensuring Microsoft's Cloud leadership, investing in AI, and driving operating leverage, in partnership with executive finance and engineering leaders impacting company-wide decisions. This Senior Finance Manager, Planning, MS Security, is an integral part of the Security Investment Optimization Finance team that enables Microsoft's Security and AI ambitions. Cybersecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. This role is at the center of planning and innovation of our Security and AI engineering investments, and efficiency opportunity, in partnership with executive leaders across engineering and finance, and impacting company-wide decisions. This role will have central ownership of delivering investment frameworks, deep analytics and insights on engineering resource allocation, owning investments long range planning, influencing strategic exec decision making, and enabling AI growth through driving operating leverage. 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.
ResponsibilitiesRecommend efficient resource allocation through deep understanding and analytics of the business and drivers in partnership with engineering and GTM (go-to-market) teams, establishing investment frameworks and principles, and drive execution of an aligned plan. Develop and review multi-year time horizon long range financial spend plans incorporating insights, risk, and opportunities. Establish trusted partnerships with and take shared responsibility for driving business outcomes (profitable growth, market share, AI leadership). Apply understanding of the broader Microsoft context and external market trends to offer impactful solutions to ensure business objectives are met. Drive executive business partner financial rhythms. Communicate insights regarding the state of the business to key stakeholders. Generate actionable plans based on complex results and ambiguous findings. Implement creative ways to show patterns and draw conclusions to help drive decisions. Conceptualize and design new approaches to how financial data is collected and evaluated to impact future outcomes and decisions. Understand the interconnections between data, information, and results and translate into forward looking narratives and forecasts. Ensure compliance in reporting financial information through approved instruments and processes, and consistency with corporate policies. Apply understanding of advanced technology to accomplish business goals and provide greater depth of analysis. Drive learning from others and sharing best practices across team boundaries. Embody our culture and values | |