Sr. Finance Manager, Gaming Advertising Finance

Overview

Join a team that clears the path for you to thrive. As the Senior Finance Manager, Gaming Advertising Finance, you partner closely with Gaming and Advertising business leaders to shape strategy, allocate resources, and translate complex performance drivers into clear financial implications. You use your deep expertise in financial analysis and your understanding of the Gaming Ads business to influence long-range plans, investment decisions, and profitable growth.

You lead cross-functional planning and forecasting rhythms, connect disparate data sources into cohesive stories, and ensure your stakeholders have the insights they need to make confident decisions in a dynamic market. At the same time, you uphold strong financial controls and compliance, ensuring our growth is both sustainable and well governed.

As a Senior Finance Manager, Gaming Ads Finance, you own the financial rhythm of the business across forecasting, close, planning, quota support, and performance analytics. You translate complex business drivers and product roadmaps into models and operating structures that improve predictability, reveal risks and opportunities early, and connect initiatives and investments to measurable outcomes. You build scalable approaches for forecasting, performance measurement, return on investment evaluation, and initiative tracking that align leaders across Xbox, King, Microsoft Casual Gaming, and broader Microsoft Advertising.

In this role, you strengthen the financial foundation that enables Gaming Ads to grow responsibly, allocate resources effectively, and deliver sustainable impact for customers, partners, and advertisers - while working with a manager who invests in and advocates for your growth and development.

At Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth‑mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress, people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what’s next for everyone.

Responsibilities

Lead the financial business rhythm for Gaming Ads, including forecasting, month-end close, planning, quota support, and performance analytics, ensuring leaders have a clear, trusted view of performance, risks, and opportunities.

Determine operating revenue and expenses for Gaming Ads and conduct variance analyses, identifying underlying business drivers as well as recommended actions to improve performance and optimize resource allocation across Xbox, King, Microsoft Casual Gaming, and broader Microsoft Advertising stakeholders.

Perform analysis, modeling, and research of current and future financial performance, including expected returns, resource allocation, pricing, investment opportunities, revenue, and operational and productivity metrics, to support strategic decision making and responsible growth.

Develop and evolve scalable financial models, reporting frameworks, and performance measurement approaches that improve predictability, support initiative tracking, and connect strategic priorities, investments, and product roadmaps to measurable business outcomes.

Build and leverage strong relationships with business partners across product, engineering, sales, and finance to understand and manage business risk, drive accountability, and influence leaders through clear, data-driven storytelling and insights.

Mentor team members in Gaming Ads finance while engaging regularly with senior stakeholders up to General Manager.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

Masters 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 Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience OR equivalent experience.

1+ year(s) experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles.

1+ year(s) work experience in matrix-based organization.

1+ year(s) work experience in the technology or software industry.

Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $97,600 - $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 $125,000 - $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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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Top skills: Analytics, Strategy, Management

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