Finance Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis
Microsoft · Washington, United States · 1d ago
Corporate Services Finance (CSF) provides financial planning, analysis, and controllership support for Corporate Functions (Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA), Finance, Human Resources (HR), and Microsoft Office of Strategy and Transformation (MOST)). The CSF team is responsible for P&L (profit & loss) management, decision support, and financial stewardship of $12B in annual global expenses. We partner with leaders across Corporate Functions to enable transformation and optimize resources.
We're looking for a Finance Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), to join our central CSF FP&A team in a high-visibility analytical role at the center of how CSF plans, forecasts, and governs it's spend. You'll own several core processes outright - OPEX (Operating Expenses) forecast support, people cost and headcount analytics, allocated Azure, and non-GWS CAPEX (Capital Expenditure) forecasting - and you'll be the person who turns those numbers into the insights that shape resource decisions across Corporate Functions.
This role will provide you with exposure to the full FP&A cycle, controllers across every Corporate Function, and executive-level reporting, and you'll have real room to redesign the processes you inherit. We're not looking for someone to run the model as it exists today. We're looking for someone who will make it better, faster, and smarter, including by putting AI (artificial intelligence) and automation to work.
What success looks like:
- Owns their processes outright. Controllers and partners come to you directly for allocated Azure, CAPEX, and people cost questions — and trust the answer.
- Moves from reporting to insight. Your analysis doesn't just show what happened to people cost; it explains the drivers, flags the risk, and recommends the action.
- Leaves the process better than they found it. At least one of the processes you inherit is materially faster, more standardized, or automated by year end — and you drove it.
- Build credibility across the function. You communicate clearly with controllers, finance leaders, and non-finance partners, and adjust the message to the audience.
- Is a resource, not a silo. When the team is under pressure during close, forecast, or planning, you're someone people want on the problem.
Attributes we are looking for:
- Highly analytical, with structured thinking and solid attention to detail.
- Energized, genuine curiosity, and a growth mindset — you ask why, and you keep learning.
- Self-starter who operates well with ambiguity and doesn't wait to be told what to analyze.
- Solid communication skills with the ability to make complex financial data land with a non-finance audience.
- Collaborative and flexible — works well across teams and steps up on shared priorities.
At Microsoft, our mission—to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more—guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress—people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.
Responsibilities
- OPEX forecast and close support. Support the CSF forecast and close cycles end to end — assumption validation, variance analysis, data integrity checks, and the analysis that feeds our close and forecast decks. Partner with controllers to make sure submissions are accurate, well-understood, and land on time.
- People cost analytics. Own analysis of the largest driver of CSF spend. Evaluate key people cost drivers, build and maintain cost-per-head views by geography, role type, and level, and explain what's moving and why across payroll, stock compensation, signing bonuses, and relocation.
- Organizational hygiene and headcount insights. Analyze organizational shape across CSF — pyramid, span of control, organization depth — and translate that into insight leaders can act on. Bring the "so what" to headcount trends, hiring activity, and the drivers behind people spend.
- Allocated Azure and Non-GWS CAPEX. Own the allocated Azure forecast and the non-GWS CAPEX forecast for G&A (General & Administrative) functions across CSF, including actuals review, variance explanation, and forward-looking outlook.
- Process improvement and automation. Bring a modernization mindset to everything you touch. Identify where reporting and analysis can be standardized, automated, or AI-enabled, and lead those improvements — partnering with our tools and engineering partners where the solution is more complex.
- Flexible team support. Support the broader central FP&A team on ad hoc analysis and special projects. This team moves, priorities shift, and the people who thrive here lean in where they're needed.
- Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership, finance, or related field OR equivalent experience.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Masters Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 3+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience OR Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 5+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience OR equivalent experience.
- Solid Microsoft Excel modeling skills, with working knowledge of modern analytics tools (Power BI, Power Query/PowerPivot, or similar).
- Demonstrated interest or hands-on experience applying AI and automation to finance processes - building agents, automating reporting, or eliminating manual steps.
- Experience with headcount, people cost, or workforce analytics.
- Experience in a matrixed, multinational organization, or in the technology or software industry.
- Experience with enterprise planning and reporting systems.
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Financial Analysis IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $77,800 - $153,700 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 $102,200 - $169,900 per year.
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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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