At 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 Sr. Finance Manager on our 1P Studios finance team will play a central role in supporting our 1P studios improve our profitability by managing our central expenses and managing the balance sheet. In this role as our 1P expense lead, you will focus on optimizing our gross margin and accountability margin and will lead the centralized work of allocating our central expenses and costs. This role will engage in extensive cross group collaboration across our team of 1P finance controllers, accounting, marketing, and other finance teams to drive margin growth and P&L optimization. **Responsibilities** • You will be the main point of contact for the 1P central expenses, working with engineering, accounting, and marketing in setting up properly allocations of central costs to our 1P Gaming studios and running periodic reviews of our balance sheet. • You will partner with a broad set of teams to drive insight and analytics into the key drivers of the 1P Gaming business & be an integral part of the Gaming Finance team. • As you provide senior business leaders with financial perspective, you’ll enable solutions that support critical strategic initiatives and maximize ROI. • You will design new approaches to collecting and evaluating financial data and creating additional value by translating data into actionable insights and implement creative ways to communicate findings from data. • You will orchestrate the comprehensive system of accounting policies, procedures, and controls, maintain accountability for internal control processes and procedures. You’ll also advocate for Microsoft’s filing position with auditors, document findings, and share results with impacted business groups. • You will drive compliance and controllership objectives through partnerships, and mitigate emerging statutory, tax, regulatory, and fiduciary risks. **Qualifications** **Required/Minimum Qualifications:** + Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field + OR Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field + OR equivalent experience. + 2+ years experience with Microsoft Office including Excel and PowerPoint **Preferred Qualifications:** + Familiarity/experience with core Microsoft financial analysis and reporting processes and tools is highly valued. + Ability to develop trusted partnerships with business leaders, and other stakeholders. + Able to handle a high degree of ambiguity and quickly identify what needs to be accomplished across multiple concurrent workstreams. + Ability to influence others without direct authority and appropriately push back when required. Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $96,500 - $188,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $123,500 - $206,400 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay %20 ) Microsoft will accept applications for the role until **September 4, 2025** . \#Finance Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .