Overview
Microsoft’s Integrated Business Planning(IBP) Finance team is uniquely positioned to unlock maximum impact across Microsoft and our customers.
We partner closely with Microsoft Cloud Planning, Azure Engineering, and Finance teams to align capacity investments with server demand, supply availability, utilization, and business priorities.
The IBP Server Planning Finance team is chartered to drive financial and strategic alignment across capacity planning, helping ensure cloud services maintain forecast accuracy, achieve revenue objectives, and support margin growth while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments and safeguarding shareholder interest.
As a Senior Finance Manager on the IBP Server Planning team, you will play a critical role in connecting demand, supply, capacity, and financial planning across forecast, close, budget, and long-range planning (LRP).
You will partner across Finance, Capacity Planning, Azure Engineering, and workload teams to translate capacity requirements and utilization insights into clear financial and business decisions.
This role requires strong analytical capability, strategic thinking, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment while connecting the dots across Microsoft.
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Responsibilities
• Lead MicrosoftCompute planning and serve as a finance partner to capacity planning teams, influencing strategy and supporting sound investment and resource allocation decisions.
• Drive strategic alignment across IBP, ship room, and other ROB activities, including close, forecast, budget, and LRP, bringing together capacity and financial perspectives.
• Build and maintain metrics that track business performance and influence capacity strategy, with a focus on utilization, supply-demand alignment, and optimization of existing capacity.
• Influence capacity shaping for processor, platform, and infrastructure mix, balancing capacity requirements, utilization, financial impact, and business priorities.
• Analyze the financial and operational drivers behind monthly Azure server and infrastructure planning changes and help ensure forecast fidelity and reasonableness.
• Partner with Azure Engineering, Cloud Planning, Finance, and workload owners to validate capacity changes, understand key drivers, and support appropriate server and infrastructure resource allocation.
• Lead financial analysis and modeling for strategic capacity initiatives, long-range planning scenarios, new responsibilities, and ad hoc business needs, translating complex inputs into actionable insights for leadership.
• Provide clear financial insights on capacity outlook, risks, opportunities, forecast changes, and longer-term investment requirements to support decision-making across planning horizons.
• Drive simplification, consistency, and strong financial discipline across capacity planning processes while maintaining the flexibility needed to respond to changing business requirements.
• Embody Microsoft culture and values . Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
• 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 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 equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
• Masters Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ 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 8+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ year(s) experience in infrastructure finance
• 2+ year(s) work experience in matrix-based organization.
• 2+ year(s) work experience in the technology or software industry.
Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $97,600 - $188,400 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 $125,000 - $206,400 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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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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