Microsoft

Senior Business Program Manager, Consumption Governance

Microsoft • $97K — $188K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, Engineering, or related field with 4+ years of relevant experience or equivalent experience.
  • Master's Degree in related field with 6+ years of program management or relevant experience preferred.
  • Experience with financial controls and revenue operations in complex systems is beneficial.
  • Proficiency in systems thinking and continuous improvement practices within operational contexts.
  • Ability to use data and AI to enhance process visibility and risk management.

Responsibilities

  • Design and improve the end-to-end consumption governance framework including financial and operational controls.
  • Establish a unified view of financial health and risk, linking various operational signals to identify issues.
  • Identify and address systemic risks and process gaps by collaborating with business and technical stakeholders.
  • Clarify ownership and accountability across teams while prioritizing and tracking risks and actions.
  • Partner with various departments to improve financial controls and verify their effectiveness.
  • Translate incident learnings into enhanced governance and operational standards.
  • Seek opportunities to simplify and automate governance processes as the consumption system evolves.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness programs.
  • Flexible work arrangements to balance personal and professional life.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and resources.
  • Collaborative work environment with a focus on team success.
Full Job Description
Overview

Microsoft Business Operations is building an end-to-end Consumption Governance capability to strengthen how we manage the consumption lifecycle and protect customer trust and revenue integrity. The lifecycle spans business intent and launch readiness through meter creation, pricing, usage, mapping, invoicing, and correction, crossing multiple organizations, systems, and business processes.

As a Senior Business Program Manager, Consumption Governance, you will help design and operate the management system that connects this lifecycle. You will establish greater visibility into lifecycle health, strengthen end-to-end financial and operational controls, surface customer and revenue risk earlier, clarify accountability, and mobilize teams around systemic issues and improvement opportunities.

You will work across engineering, business planning, commerce, finance, and operations, bringing structure and clarity to complex problems where accountability and execution span organizational boundaries. This opportunity will allow you to deepen your experience in governance, financial controls, systems thinking, risk management, data-driven decision making, and cross-functional program leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve the end-to-end consumption governance and control framework, including the financial and operational controls required to protect the integrity of consumption from business intent through usage, pricing, invoicing, and correction.
  • Establish an integrated view of financial flow, control health, and lifecycle risk, connecting customer, financial, process, incident, and operational signals to identify where consumption or revenue could be incorrect, incomplete, delayed, or otherwise at risk.
  • Identify systemic risks, process gaps, control weaknesses, and recurring patterns, and mobilize the appropriate business and technical owners to address them.
  • Establish clear ownership, decision rights, risk prioritization, action tracking, and escalation across organizational boundaries while maintaining accountability with the appropriate domain owners.
  • Partner with finance, engineering, commerce, business planning, and operational owners to identify gaps in preventative and detective financial controls, establish clear control ownership, and verify that controls and corrective actions are operating effectively.
  • Translate learning from incidents, root cause analyses, launches, and operational performance into stronger standards, controls, processes, tools, guidance, and governance mechanisms.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify and automate governance, monitoring, controls, and risk detection as the consumption management system matures.


Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in program management, process management, governance, risk management, operations, business transformation, or related work OR equivalent experience.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications
  • Master's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, Engineering or related field AND 6+ years experience in program management, process management, governance, risk management, operations, business transformation or related work.
  • Experience with financial controls, monetization, revenue operations, commerce, billing, or other complex financial or transactional systems.
  • Experience applying systems thinking, continuous improvement, risk management, quality, or control disciplines in complex operational environments.
  • Experience partnering across engineering, product, finance, business planning, commerce, or operations organizations.
  • Experience using data, automation, or AI to improve process visibility, risk detection, controls, or operational decision making.
  • Experience establishing new governance, operating, or program-management capabilities in complex and evolving environments.
  • Experience leading complex programs or processes that span multiple teams, functions, or organizational boundaries.
  • Experience defining or operating business processes, governance mechanisms, controls, metrics, or program management systems.
  • Experience using business, operational, or performance data to identify risks, evaluate outcomes, or inform priorities and decisions.


Business Program Management 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.

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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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