Senior Finance Manager - Data Center Deals

Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s what inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Embracing our cloud-first strategy, we deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully. Microsoft’s Commercial Product Infrastructure (CPI) team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy. We are looking for a talented and motivated individual to help shape the future of our cloud products.

The Cloud Infra and Supply Execution (CISE) finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy. The CISE finance team is responsible for supporting delivering cloud capacity at the right time, right place and right cost. We’re seeking a Senior Finance Manager to own deal modelling and end to end coverage for accelerated capacity asks.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. 

This role owns the financial evaluation of data center lease and capacity proposals. The individual builds and reviews cash flow models to assess the economics of lease structures, land acquisition, and power related investments, enabling leadership to make informed decisions in a fast paced, capacity constrained environment.

• Build and own cash flow and NPV models to evaluate data center leases, land acquisitions, and infrastructure / power asks.
• Assess economic trade offs, risks, and sensitivities across pricing, timing, contractual terms, and capacity pathways.
• Partner with cross functional teams to validate assumptions and translate technical proposals into clear financial implications.
• Deliver executive ready insights and recommendations that clearly articulate value, risks, and decision trade offs.
• Apply consistent modeling frameworks and assumptions to enable comparable, decision quality evaluation across deals and regions
• Embody our culture and values

Required Qualifications:

• 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 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 equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to collaborate and be comfortable dealing with ambiguity, influencing across multiple complex organization, and creating effecting partnerships. Ability to achieve results through both individual and cross team efforts, to manage multiple projects at the same time, and to work effectively under deadline constraints
• Demonstrated expertise in financial modeling and analysis. Problem-solving attitude. Experience in influencing decisions and developing strategic plans. Ability to "think outside the box" and not be hindered by how things have been done in the past.
• Willing to go the extra mile. Self-directed, resourceful and willing to roll-up sleeves as needed. Proven ability to drive projects and analysis to closure in a collaborative and matrixed environment 
• Expertise in financial planning and analysis, including: analysis, forecasting, planning, reporting, and d