Senior Finance Manager - Gaming Finance

At Team Xbox, our mission is to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. Our team culture is collaborative, supportive, and fun. We work hard on big challenges and strive for an environment that values diverse perspectives and individuals. We are looking for a self-motivated individual with deep collaboration capabilities and finance experiences to join the team as a Senior Finance Manager - Gaming Finance.

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 successful candidate will bring a combination of finance and business acumen, leadership, and influencing skills to this space to drive outstanding financial results in close alignment with our business partners.

• Deep business Partnership: Serve as the primary finance partner to the Gaming Chief Operations Officer's (COO) team. Apply strategic thinking to ensure investments are aligned to key priorities. Clearly communicate recommendations and scenario analysis to finance and business leaders.
• Rhythm of Finance: Own close, forecast and budgeting processes for the Gaming COO team, ensuring predictability and compliance.
• Financial Analysis: Take a macro-level view to analyzing results to understand performance against plan/forecast. Monitor trends and key levers, such as headcount and vendor investment against plan/forecast assumptions. Proactively communicate across multiple stakeholders to ensure successful end-to-end understanding of portfolios, processes, and planning.
• Process Improvement: Own refining the people and non-people management process with the business and apply learnings for better accuracy in forecasting. Share best practice learnings across teams to enable broader group success.

Qualifications:

Required / Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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 Master's Degree in Business Administration , Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience in analyzing and using data to drive business insight and decisions
• 4+ years experience in Excel, pivot tables and advanced modeling techniques

Preferred Qualifications:

• Self-motivation; quickly identifying what needs to be accomplished and getting it done
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Math or Business Administration. CPA or MBA or the equivalent work experience to the MBA is a plus
• 4 or more years' experience in financial analysis, financial forecasting or budgeting, and /or controllership, ideally in the technology industry preferred
• Ability to manage through change while driving for process and operational efficiencies.

Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,600 - $183,800 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 $122,000 - $200,500 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until March 26, 2025.

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form .

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