Finance Director

Redmond, WA

As Team Xbox, we are on a mission to bring the joy, excitement, and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. We deliver on that vision by putting players at the core, enabling you to play the games you want, with the people you want, anywhere you want. Finance is at the center of making this vision a reality. This role supports the Xbox Cloud Game Streaming (“Project xCloud”) business as we seek to innovate, disrupt, and expand the gaming opportunity worldwide. In this role, you will focus on driving long term planning, business model support and strategic investment analysis, while engaging in extensive cross group collaboration across a wide set of stakeholders including engineering, marketing, business development and other finance teams including central finance and Azure Cloud Services. You will partner with the Xbox Cloud Game Streaming team to drive growth and expand our total addressable market to the billions of gamers around the world. As the leader of the game streaming finance team, you will need to recruit, develop, and retain a high performing finance team to achieve these goals. Most importantly, you will lead and champion a culture centered on embracing a growth mindset, diversity and inclusion, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day.

Responsibilities

Role model: exemplify a growth mindset and what it takes to be a key driver of the business
Accelerate: Drive success for key partners within Xbox and externally for our partners
Financial Reporting: Partner with the engineering teams to model out the long-term financial plan for game streaming, including monetization, SKU planning, infrastructure deployment & utilization, and cost to serve
Rhythm of Business: Support the RoB processes by participating in forecasting, target setting and budgeting in alignment with Corporate and EDM timelines.
Capacity Planning: Partner with the capacity planning team to ensure alignment with latest deployment plans and corresponding COGS impact
Financial Acumen: Manage process excellence and compliance governance in leading game streaming offers to market across Finance and business stakeholders, including the Finance Readiness Framework, establishing engagement with Commercial VL operations, and Business Desk, and develop reporting insights across deal economics and efficiencies of transactions
Insight & Analytics: Help design and develop regular revenue and key performance indicators reviews, develop quarterly forecast and target, and support business reviews
Partnership: Be an integral part of the Azure/Cloud finance and engineering partnership that is essential to game streaming success
Collaborative: Build strong relationships with key partnerships across Game Pass, Azure, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, and business development.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field AND 6+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field AND 4+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience
OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Proficiency in MS Office – with advanced Excel skills & extensive experience using multiple formulas and pivot tables with strong ability to manipulate large volumes of data
Demonstrated experience in a consumer tech and/or interactive media & entertainment business focused on developing and driving cross-company strategy
Strong executive presence including communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort to large and small audiences
Problem solving mentality leveraging internal and/or external resources
Ability to operate in a dynamic, fast moving environment while conforming to tight deadlines
Propensity to learn and identify opportunities for improvement
Must have the ability to manage across organizational boundaries, influence others and build on the work of others
Proven ability to partner, build trust, communicate with and influence senior executives; ability to make the complex simple and influence through effective story telling
Ability to deal with ambiguity, exercise sound business judgment and show strong sense of certainty by standing firm where appropriate
Strong verbal & written communication, interpersonal and cross group collaboration skills

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Benefits and Perks

Industry leading healthcare
Savings and investments
Giving programs
Educational resources
Maternity and paternity leave
Opportunities to network and connect
Discounts on products and services
Generous time away