Finance/Treasury

Your Knowledge + Our Team = A Bright Future
Are you ready to lend insight into the finances of a multi-billion dollar global enterprise? At Microsoft, your financial expertise, analytical insights, and foresight will find a welcome reception. Here, it's not just about the numbers that make Microsoft tick—it's also how we examine the trends they illuminate to manage our business better and enhance our long-term profit potential.

Quite simply, you'll collaborate with some of the top minds in the industry here. Your peers will include specialists in accounting, finance, audit, and treasury functions. By joining our highly dynamic and engaging finance environment, you'll have ample opportunity to apply your abilities across a multitude of diverse financial activities and processes. A successful candidate for our finance positions should possess both a demonstrated analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to explain complex financial concepts to non-financial personnel.

Some of our Finance/Treasury internships include:
Business Development Management
Finance Management

Business Development Management

Your talent for deal making and relationship building can help shape our evolution. As an intern for a leadership role on our ace Business Development team, you’ll target growth opportunities, glean insight from market analysis, and forge alliances with key partners. Your business building strategies will shape the future of our leading technologies and help define new ones.

In this high-energy position, your options are limitless. Seek out new features or applications for Microsoft® Office that’ll resonate around the world. Or build strategic partnerships with recording studios, the movie industry, or individual artists to broaden entertainment options on the MSN® Network. With three divisions consisting of seven distinct business groups spanning consumer and enterprise software, new media, entertainment, telecommunications and mobile devices, Microsoft offers a vast array of opportunities for your business development aspirations.

Whatever business group you’re aligned with, you can expect to:

•	Conduct market research and competitive analysis
•	Create new business models for emerging businesses and technologies
•	Define partner strategy and positioning
•	Assess product and partner requirements
•	Target acquisitions and negotiate contracts
•	Manage partner relationships

Your education has gotten you this far, but success in this role calls for the kind of skills you can’t teach. At the end of the day, your gut-level instinct, knack for anticipating customer desires and interests, and ability to follow through is what will grow existing business and take emerging technologies to the next level.

Finance Management

There’s never been a better time for finance pros to have a powerful impact at Microsoft. As a Financial Analyst intern, you’ll learn how your objective insight into complex, large-scale projects will directly impact the company’s bottom line. What’s more, your keen eye for investment opportunities will have the backing of a global leader with $40 billion in revenue.\

To meet the demands of this role, you must act as a change agent—as adept at framing problems and communicating solutions as you are with crunching numbers, and confident enough to make tough decisions in times of ambiguity. If you’re up to the challenge, we want you to be an intern on our team.

In this position you will:

•	Drive monthly and quarterly business processes
•	Define performance-based business metrics
•	Coordinate financial support within or across subsidiaries or regions
•	Develop business investment and sales strategy recommendations
•	Create financial models for proposed market investments and sales programs
•	Evaluate new business opportunities and make meaningful recommendations to senior management
•	Provide timely reporting and analysis as it relates to the monthly flash, monthly business review, quarterly CFO forecast, mid-year review, and budget and business plan review
•	Seek improvements in key business processes, especially those that require cross group participation

The fact is, there’s never been a better time for finance pros to do challenging work at Microsoft. Our traditional businesses are looking to build on top of a huge base business, and our newer products and services are still looking for the “profit zone.” Join us and you can play an integral part in the story that has yet to be written about our ever-evolving business.