Senior Finance Launch Manager
Finance, Banking & Legal · Banking & Investments · Financial Analysis · Risk Management · Compliance & Regulatory
In short
As a Senior Finance Launch Manager at Microsoft, you will lead cross-functional teams to ensure complex commercial offerings launch effectively, clearly, and responsibly. You will coordinate planning, monitor compliance, identify risks, and drive launches through to completion, supporting strategic and fast-moving priorities in an ambiguous environment.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end launch management across Envision, Plan, Execute, Deploy, and Close.
- Coordinate day-to-day launch activities, establishing clear objectives, customer outcomes, success criteria, and go/no-go expectations.
- Partner with various teams to define launch scope, scenarios, and deliverables.
- Formalize stakeholder governance, establish engagement rhythms, and identify ownership gaps.
- Translate deal mechanics into finance requirements, including scenario coverage and controls.
- Monitor portfolio health, risks, and decision quality for assigned launches.
- Identify compliance and launch risks, assess impacts, and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Ensure financial controls operate as intended by reviewing team actions.
- Embody company culture and values.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in finance or related field AND 4+ years of experience in finance or financial compliance OR equivalent experience.
- Experience in launch management, program management, business operations, finance compliance operations, product operations, or a related function.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills to manage competing priorities and fast-moving timelines.
- Ability to influence without authority, formalize stakeholder governance, and coordinate decisions across senior stakeholders.
- Ability to identify and escalate emerging risks and translate financial implications.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial controls, compliance requirements, risk identification, monitoring, and remediation.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional launches with business, engineering, finance, operations, support, and customer-facing stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to clarify intent, define scope and scenarios, identify dependencies, monitor execution, and drive accountability.
Desired Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in launch management, program management, business operations, finance compliance operations, product operations, or a related function.
- Experience supporting AI, Azure, specialized business development, or other highly customized commercial deal constructs.
- Experience defining project or pilot scope, success criteria, customer eligibility, pricing or discount parameters, and operational enablement steps.
- Experience partnering with engineering teams on costing, design readiness, dependency tracking, test readiness, user acceptance testing, or release execution.
- Experience working with operations teams across product configuration, billing, customer readiness, migration, run state, support, or supply planning.
- Experience working across complex organizations, influencing stakeholders, and navigating ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks, audit and monitoring processes, governance tools, remediation practices, and launch readiness controls.
- Experience improving processes through automation, systems integration, governance forums, decision logs, training, and scalable operating frameworks.
Benefits
- Typical base pay range of USD $97,600 - $188,400 per year (US-wide).
- Specific base pay range for San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $125,000 - $206,400 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Information on additional benefits and pay available at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay.
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
3 weeks ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Salary
US$97,600–188,400 / year
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
United States
Qualification
Bachelor
Applicants
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