Microsoft

Sr. Finance Manager-Pricing Lead

Posted 17 May 2023
LocationChina
Job type Permanent
Reference 1548489

Company's Benefits

  • Paid Parental Leave

    Paid Parental Leave

  • Return to Work Policy

    Return to Work Policy

  • Childcare Facilities

    Childcare Facilities

  • Flexible Working Arrangements

    Flexible Working Arrangements

  • Mentorship Program

    Mentorship Program

  • Breastfeeding Rooms

    Breastfeeding Rooms

  • Sponsorship Program

    Sponsorship Program

  • Leadership Development Program

    Leadership Development Program

  • Coaching Program

    Coaching Program

  • Raise Numbers Of Women In Leadership

    Raise Numbers Of Women In Leadership

  • Internal Women's Networking Group

    Internal Women's Networking Group

  • Equal Pay Initiatives

    Equal Pay Initiatives

Job Description

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Overview

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully. The Margin Strategy and Investment Optimization (MSIO) finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy.

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The Cloud Infrastructure Strategy, Planning & Delivery (CISPD) finance team is responsible for supporting delivering cloud capacity at the right time, right place and right cost.  We are seeking an experienced Finance professional to manage the server rack pricing. The successful candidate will bring a combination of deep financial modeling and technical skills.  This role will manage all aspect of the server pricing financials and system updates as well as working closely with our system integrators & sourcing managers to develop a best in class pricing model.

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Responsibilities

The role requires a high degree of agility and skill in navigating multiple stakeholder requirements while enabling accelarated growth aspirations for the business in a highly competitive market environment. To be successful, the individual needs to be highly collaborative, self-motivated, and curious in learning.

  • Work closely with Sourcing Managers (SM) and system integrators (SIs) to gather and update rack pricing in the system (D365)

  • Design and enhance processes that support the growing Cloud business by collaborating with Engineering to maintain D365

  • Partners with key stakeholders (Engineering, Sourcing, and other finance peers) to define price optimization initiatives by analyzing and synthesizing quantitative & qualitative data to develop a compelling pricing strategy.

  • Partner with system integrators (SIs) to proactively address all pricing issues.

  • Monitor trends and key issue drivers to proactive recommend courses of action.

  • Design and maintain dashboards to enable ongoing monitoring of business health and ensure data accuracy.

  • Identify and drive cost saving initiatives.

  • Be a cultural champion for inclusion, growth mindsets, and establish culture and norms that support consistent quality employee and partner experiences.

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Qualifications

  • 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 Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field

  • Or Equivalent experience