Microsoft Looking For Early Talent Program Manager, Finance at Redmond, WA Full Time

Our Early Talent team is seeking a Program Manager with strong project management and partnership skills to manage and grow our programs within the U.S. In this role, you will lead key operations, recruitment efforts, and infrastructure to run and scale our Finance Rotation Program (FRP) and be a key business partner to executive sponsors in Finance. This role will report to the Finance Early Talent Lead and partner closely with Finance and HR professionals across the organization.

Do you have a passion for developing early-in-career talent through on-the-job experiences, mentoring, and learning that accelerate their development, performance, and impact? Do you thrive in fast-paced, creative environments? If so, then consider this opportunity with the Finance Early Talent team within our Finance Human Resource Team (“Finance HR”).

More about the Team:
Our Early Talent team drives our strategy and vision to hire incredible university talent from around the world and provide them with real-world experiences, coaching, and focused training to hone their financial and business acumen and increase their impact today and in the future. Our largest program is the FRP, which is a two-year rotation program for full-time employees hired directly from university. Today, FRP has over 100 analysts globally who explore different areas of the business through four, six-month rotations. As we look ahead, we’re prioritizing program growth to support more locations and Finance teams so that our program participants can be future finance and business leaders in the years to come.

Location Redmond (preferred), Atlanta, Las Colinas or Reston, VA.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include:
Works with Recruiting and cross-functional stakeholders in Finance and HR to attract and hire early talent for Finance (sophomore programs, summer internships, fulltime opportunities).

Identify internal opportunities to improve current early talent programs, processes, communications, training opportunities, and event management.

Collaborates to define and execute on landing and communication plans, ranging across target audiences from early talent participants, people managers, Finance leaders, and Finance HR. Maintain the rhythm of business (ROB) to ensure participants and stakeholders are informed, inspired, and responding.

Collaborates with others to conduct analyses and examine performance to value drivers (managing our program budget, measuring return on investment in programs).

Collects and evaluates success criteria and performance metrics to evaluate effectiveness of early talent programs.

Demonstrates an understanding of how various programs work and impact one another across Early Talent, Diversity & Inclusion, Manager Excellence, and Career Development.

Embody our Microsoft culture and values.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Operations, Human Resources, Finance or related field AND 2+ years work experience in program management, process management, process improvement, recruitment operations OR equivalent experience.

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.

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