Finance Manager - Engineering R&D

Microsoft; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 76,800 - 151,900; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Redmond is looking for a Finance Manager to support engineering with financial decisions, resource allocation, and forecasting. Ideal candidates will have a relevant Master's degree and experience in financial modeling. The role offers a competitive salary of $76,800 - $151,900 annually. Applications accepted until September 26, 2025.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience in financial modeling.
• Experience in a high-tech company is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive process excellence while partnering across Engineering and Finance.
• Conduct resource analysis to support decision making.
• Support business decision making to drive operating leverage.
• Conduct regular financial reviews for timely reporting.

Skills

Financial modeling

Interpersonal and cross group collaboration

Expert Excel user

Data analysis

Education

Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, or related field

Bachelor's Degree plus 2+ years experience in financial analysis

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Overview

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The Commercial Products & Infrastructure (CPI) org is responsible for enabling business decisions to drive revenue, shape capex investments, manage cloud & AI capacity, deliver margin excellence, and ensure ongoing resource allocation aligned to strategic engineering priorities. Within CPI, the Resource Investment Strategy finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving team that partners deeply with engineering leaders to ensure $20B+ resources across ~100K engineering full time equivalent (FTE) are continuously aligned to strategic engineering priorities.

This role covers a wide range of responsibilities which includes various modeling and business analysis, partnering with engineering leaders on resource allocation decisions, and managing efficient financial processes. The position requires a motivated and agile system thinker who can demonstrate intellectual curiosity and navigate ambiguity and complexity to be trusted finance partners to our engineering leaders.

This role will accelerate your understanding on the development and execution of product strategy, how finance develops frameworks to influence leadership on resource decisions, all while being part of the highly driven team that is committed to your professional development and fun!

Responsibilities

• Business Health: Drive process excellence while partnering across Engineering and Finance to continuously assess portfolio health and understand key drivers to identify opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs. Analyze results to understand performance against plan/forecast, monitors trends and key levers to support various engineering and finance rhythms. Ensure resources and investments are constantly aligned with business strategy, product engineering roadmaps, and company priorities.
• Resource Analysis: Conduct resource analysis to provide health of business readouts and trends and articulate those findings to finance and leadership to support decision making. Communicate business results with clarity and conciseness, incorporating insights through resource allocation, workforce planning as well as understanding the connection between resource allocation with the overall financial performance.
• Engineering Partnership: Support business decision making to drive operating leverage. Contribute insights for resource allocation and investment strategy by giving visibility to the current resource landscape and aligning to product strategy. Collect customer and partner feedback and assist with data analysis to improve decision support.
• Rhythm of Business: Conduct regular financial reviews to enable faster decision making with timely and accurate reporting. Drive effective spend management aligned with company policies, procedures, and priorities in partnership with Engineering and Finance.
• 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
• 2+ years of experience in financial modeling

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a high-tech company a plus
• Driven, self-starter, capable of effectively prioritizing and operating with a high degree of ambiguity in a fast-paced and changing environment
• Proven ability to partner, build trust, and communicate with executives; ability to make the complex simple and influence through effective storytelling
• Ability to prioritize and function well in a dynamic and matrixed environment
• Demonstrated interpersonal and cross group collaboration skills
• Expert Excel user familiar with advanced functions and charting capabilities. Proficiency combining, structuring, and mining large volumes of data from disparate sources using tools such as Power BI, Excel, SQL etc.
• Possess a learning mindset with aptitude for understanding product and business strategy

Financial Analysis IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $76,800 - $151,900 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 $100,800 - $168,000 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 September 26, 2025.

EEO Statement

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.