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Are you passionate about leveraging your budget management expertise to accelerate others in the Public Sector business? Do you want to be part of an organization that supports citizens and the digital transformation of countries around the world? If so, the Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) team is growing and we’re looking for a talented Business Manager with a passion for helping our Public Sector customers.For the Business Manager role, we are seeking an individual with extensive experience managing budgets across numerous teams. This includes the alignment of business priorities to program spending and driving budget and process efficiencies. The Business Manager’s responsibilities include the creation, tracking, and governance of operating budgets for the organization while collaborating with finance and Worldwide Public Sector Leadership. The Business Manager will create statements of work, work with procurement, and manage vendor relationships. A successful candidate should be detailed oriented with deep analytic capabilities and understating of financials. The candidate must be comfortable engaging with senior level budget owners and changing priorities. The role will join the Worldwide Public Sector Government Team.About the Organization:At Microsoft we have a clear and simple mission – To empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The chance to do that, at scale, is nowhere greater than in the Worldwide Public Sector team where we are dedicated to empowering citizens, societies, and governments around the world. WWPS encompasses government both at the national level and local level, defense and intelligence and education.ResponsibilitiesWhat you will be doing:
Serve as the trusted advisor to the Worldwide Government leader
React to the ongoing needs of our corporate based teams and enable the business to operate
Integrate with business rhythms across operations, procurement, finance and field teams
Run annual planning processes to create budgets across Government vertical
Drive ongoing forecasting, adjusting spend to land on budget
Partner with headquarter teams to ensure the effective landing and adoption of updated processes, tools and reporting
Serve as a compliance leader, including driving compliance actions throughout the organization and acting as the escalation point
Track, manage, and driveLeadership Team action items
QualificationsWhat we are looking for:
5+ years’ experience in project management or budget/financial related work
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 at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest .Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.#bizops #wwps
