Finance Manager - Consumer Margin and WebXT
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 31, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. This mission inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our AI-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully. Microsoft's Commercial Product Infrastructure and Margin (CPIM) team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft's AI strategy. We currently have an opening for an experienced Finance Manager to join the Consumer Margin and WebXT finance team. The WebXT Finance team is responsible for managing Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) and gross margin accountability across Bing, MSN, Consumer Co-pilot, and affiliate business units. The team focuses on determining COGS affordability and ensuring efficient resource allocation and utilization in a rapidly evolving AI landscape. These efforts support the delivery of best-in-class offerings to customers while maintaining alignment with gross margin objectives.
ResponsibilitiesDevelop and maintain detailed financial reporting for all weekly, monthly and quarterly rhythms. This will include providing monthly/quarterly variance analysis and commentary on key business drivers.Deliver high-quality financial materials for key leaderships reviews including Monthly Business Reviews (MBR), close decks, executive memos, and capacity council updates.Ensure accurate Graphics Processing Units (GPU) cost reporting with a strong emphasis on aligning billing practices with established financial principles and telemetry data.Understand the GPU demand drivers and incoming supply and create weekly updates on signals and supply schedule by working with engineering leaders on Search and AdsManage and validate cross-charging processes across teams to ensure equitable and transparent cost allocation.Drive process improvements and scalability by automating reporting templates and enhancing data workflows.Leverage engineering data to maintain and update product-level cost allocations across key services, including Bing, MSN, Copilot, and Ads.Support landing the annual budget/forecasts, seasonality and system loads. Understand the key assumptions driving the budget and seasonality to track over the year. | |