New 
Finance Manager - Azure Strategic Finance
 Microsoft | |
remote work
| |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 28, 2025 | |
|
OverviewThe Azure Strategic Finance (Revenue Planning) team influences decision-making and implementation of strategy across the Azure portfolio. Our charter is to ensure leaders are focused on the highest ROI opportunities and initiatives. We integrate insights into actions across GTM, deal structure, business model, and resource allocation/prioritization. The Azure Core team has an opening for a qualified candidate with relevant experience to lead regional pricing and fleet management. In this Finance Manager - Azure Strategic Finance role, you'll collaborate with Marketing and Engineering to develop frameworks for how we price Azure services globally. You'll analyze demand signals and market trends to inform how we think about growth shaping across regions and price elasticity. Your work will influence regional growth, product roadmap, and how we measure business performance. Often you will bring data-driven insights to business partners and validate go/no go outcomes with rigorous financial modeling. You'll work closely with Marketing, Engineering, Sales, COGS Finance, and Corp Strat.In the first six months a few of the projects you'll work on are:Partner with Marketing / GTM on a regional pricing assessment and creation of global pricing frameworksAssist with augmenting the capacity reservation portfolioAI market landscape / ecosystem analysisWe're excited to offer a hybrid role that give you the best of both worlds. You'll get to collaborate in person with your teammates at our Redmond office three days a week, and enjoy the flexibility of remote work the rest of the time. If you love connecting face-to-face and also appreciate some work-from-home days, this could be a great fit for you. Our teamculture is centered around Microsoft corporate valuesand the One Microsoft approach with business partners. Our teamiscomprisedof many individuals withdiversebackgroundsand valuestheuniqueperspectivesand thought processeseachcolleaguebringsto the table.Our teamleans into helpingone another and is not afraid to try new things witha growth mindset mentality. At Microsoft, our mission is simple yet bold: empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. That purpose fuels our Cloudfirst strategy and inspires us to challenge the status quo every day. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesResponsibilitiesCollaborate with Marketing, Business Planning, and Engineering teams on regional pricing and packaging proposalsEnhance process for internal compute vCore allocations based on ROI to the companySupport broader team efforts for market and compete analysis, including AI landscape and TAM sizingCollect customer and partner feedback data and assist with analysis to improve experiences while building relationships with internal and external partners.Support business decision-making by addressing expense and compliance questions, contributing insights for financial plans, resource optimization, investments, KPIs, long-range planning, and margin accountability.Contribute to analysis of present and future financial performance across products, segments, or businesses, and assist senior team members with research on financial plans, acquisition activity, and future opportunities. | |