Have you ever wondered how Microsoft manages its revenue? Most simplistically, we collect money from customers, and we pay employees, partners, vendors, and stockholders.  But when you think of the scale of Microsoft’s worldwide operations, our products and services mix and the size of our business you realize that the financial and workflow experiences that support our ability to do business are massive, complex and mission critical.  The Corporate Finance Engineering team leads that effort. We run Microsoft!     

Our challenge is to create and demonstrate world leadership in the digital transformation of corporate finance.  Our scope includes sales (lead to order and order to cash), services (consulting and support), procurement and payment (procure to pay), indirect and direct tax, general accounting, external relations, and more. Our financial systems and experiences must grow to meet tomorrow’s challenges. But wait, there’s more!  We will accelerate Microsoft’s growth by radically transforming our financial and workflow experiences to be the most scalable, agile, intelligent and compliant in the world.  We work on the premise that our experiences are consumer grade and showcase the best of the Microsoft technology and user experience stack.

Responsibilities

Are you looking for an opportunity to contribute to an evolutionary change in cloud computing, creating, shaping, and growing a new kind of cloud from the ground up? Do you have a passion for technology, love working in a fast paced and innovative environment, and know what it takes to get the job done?  

Microsoft is building Azure to be the world’s computer, tackling the hardest problems on the planet. Core to the success of this mission is that every customer, in every industry can adopt Azure to further their mission.  The Corporate Finance Engineering (CFE) Team is at the center of this mission, building cloud revenue reporting infrastructure around the world to support commercial industry and government adoption of the cloud to support the most complex workloads.

CFE is seeking a talented, highly motivated leader to drive, build and deliver the next generation of capabilities for the Microsoft revenue reporting systems. This individual will work closely with software engineering peers, operations, and Finance to dig into execution details, to identify opportunities to automate and optimize, and to deliver reporting across all stakeholder groups. As a Senior Program Manager, you will be responsible for being an expert in how we operate reporting systems, work with stakeholders to understand their needs, and help define the delivery roadmap to ensure our future service meets those needs.  Turn challenges of today into the innovations of tomorrow.

As a Senior Program Manager, you will create a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions.

You will define the metrics by which we measure and judge successful outcomes, and you will work with engineering to create sophisticated methods for creating and measuring progress towards those outcomes.

Build and execute plans for delivering services globally with high resiliency, business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities, while enlisting our partners in that success.

You will ensure product designs meet compliance, regulatory, accessibility, and external standards.

You will drive the delivery of those outcomes and evangelize the results within our organization, partner organizations and stakeholder community.

You will work with User Research and User Design to develop sophisticated consumer grade, ML and AI driven user experiences that support and empower our customers and partners to make decisions and create value and insights.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

7+ years of product management or product design experience working with partners in non-engineering organizations.

5+ experience working cross-group stakeholders while driving consensus and issue resolution.

A minimum of a bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, industrial design, finance, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience is required.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in data governance, master data management, data warehousing, or other enterprise scale data strategies.

Sophisticated cross-organizational leadership and influence skills.

Ability to thrive in a highly innovative, fast paced, evolving and ambiguous environment.

Strong verbal and written communication skills, with demonstrated storytelling experience, motivation, and excitement to share our team’s outcomes.

High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced environment.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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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