Senior Finance Manager - Microsoft AI Infrastructure

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. This mission inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day.

Through our AI-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully. Microsoft’s Commercial Product Infrastructure and Margin (CPIM) team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s AI strategy.

We currently have an opening for an experienced Senior Finance Manager - Microsoft AI Infrastructure to join the Consumer Margin and Microsoft AI team. This team provides strategic resource allocation decision support across Microsoft AI (training) efforts and consumer businesses.This role  involves managing the supply and demand of Central Processing Unit (CPU),Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Storage resources for research and training, ensuring alignment with organizational growth objectives. A significant focus will be on capacity planning, which includes defining key milestones, prioritizing objectives, and mitigating potential bottlenecks. Additionally, the role aims to develop foundational expertise in datacenters and foundational model training  requirements, which will be essential for contributing effectively to compute planning efforts. 

This is a hybrid role based out of our beautiful Redmond location—where innovation meets stunning views! We can’t wait to welcome you! 

Responsibilities

Infrastructure Planning

• Develop and maintain the Microsoft AI (MAI) compute roadmap, keeping it updated to the latest requirements and datacenter technologies. Collaborate with research and product teams to align compute plans with internal roadmaps, ensuring resource availability across Research and Development (R&D) projects.
• Establish understanding of relevant frontier model training paradigms and advances in AI compute. Communicate key points to finance and Data Center (DC) Operations stakeholders, ensuring end-to-end understanding of MAI’s needs.
• Establish key compute efficiency metrics across research and product. Monitor, analyze, and report on these metrics regularly to drive continuous improvement.
• Financially assess investments using sophisticated and flexible models, and provide guidance and influence on financial strategies, investment prioritization, and resource allocation decisions.
• Identify areas for improvement and efficiency and partner with stakeholders to execute on opportunities.

Finance Rhythm of Business (ROB) / Business Health

• Partner with Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) teams to ensure computing and infrastructure strategies align with broader financial objectives and business strategy
• Lead and manage rhythm of business activities, including financial processes such as month-end close, forecasting, budgeting, and other key financial rhythms to ensure accurate and timely financial insights across Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) and Profit and Loss (P&L).
• Prepare and deliver clear, concise, and insightful financial reports, analyses, and forecasts, highlighting key trends, risks, and opportunities to facilitate informed decision-making to stakeholders and executives

Other 

• Embody our Culture and Values  

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 4+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field 
  • OR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 2+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field  
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 3+ years capacity planning and infrastructure strategy expertise  manag