Finance Director

The goal of the SANE (Search, Ads, News + Edge) team is to provide key insights that help Microsoft make better financial and business decisions related to Bing, Microsoft News, Microsoft Edge, and third party affiliates. SANE is a fast-growing business responsible for delivering advertising that seeks to empower our users by bringing them closer to the people and information that matter most to them and is heavily invested in the future of AI. Our team is at the center of Microsoft's financial activities for the Consumer business, being a key strategic partner to a diverse set of stakeholders: Senior Finance leaders, Ad Sales Leadership Team, Engineering/Product Teams, and Business Development Team. Finance Directors in our team help us transform the way we measure business performance, manage resources, and lead financial activities using business intelligence, modeling, and analytics. As a Finance Director, you will have a unique opportunity to use your insights and strategic thinking to partner with leaders on financial analysis, financial decisions and investments, and demand optimization initiatives. You will be a key member of the MSA Leadership Team and partner closely with the Global Media Sales and SMB teams to drive demand growth and expand our total revenue for our advertising products and services. As a leader in the SANE finance team, you will need to recruit, lead, develop and retain a high performing finance team of 5-7 individuals 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 excellent, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day.