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Posted date: Jul 11, 2024
Category: Finance
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $147,550
Range: $94,600 - $200,500
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That is 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. Margin Strategy and Investment Optimization (MSIO) Finance 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 team’s charter is to optimize our investments in cloud infrastructure while driving down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve both profit and gross margin growth. As a Senior Finance Manager - GPU Internal Pricing and AI on this team, you’ll also support long term bets and drive intelligence to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of the competition. All while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments and safeguarding shareholder interest.
The AI Business Health team inside MSIO Finance is responsible for margin strategy and investment optimization of Microsoft AI Products.
We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Finance Manager - GPU Internal Pricing and AI to partner with individuals across finance and engineering to compile detailed Graphics Processing Units (GPU) costs by Stock Keeping Units (SKU), as well as model, plan, and report on changes in pricing; creating clarity and structure around internal GPU cost allocations.
Additionally, support Copilot workloads through the Rhythm of Business (RoB) by ensuring gross margin reporting is accurate on a monthly basis, driving improved system tracking, and supporting the long range planning (LRP) process.
This role partners closely with engineering, business planning, as well as a breadth of finance partners. It is a critical role supporting AI products financial reporting, a strategic area of growth and investment for the broader Microsoft Cloud.
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.
Lead 1st and 3rd party GPU pricing to support customer deals and incentivize rapid AI adoption with scale and efficiencyPartner with Engineering, capacity finance, Business Planning, and Operations to ensure that GPU pricing is aligned to evolving unit cost influencers and articulate findings to facilitate executive decision making across business and finance leadersPerform analysis on GPU price, and performance to understand and model Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) for a variety of hardware SKUs at different stages of scale and growthAct as a key member of Microsoft’s AI finance team, creating clarity around GPU pricing leavers, trajectory, and gross margin performance, and influencing investment strategyCreate and enforce billing principals and frameworks for GPUsLead RoB for Microsoft’s AI Copilot investments including building simple frames and creating consistent actionable Senior Leadership Team (SLT) messaging
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Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Minimum/Required Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field AND 4+ years of experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experienceOR Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or related field and 2+ years of experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experienceOR equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Demonstrated ability to form and influence cross-functional partnerships to deliver high-value projects both as an individual and through v-teams with business partnering skillsProven data and financial modeling capabilities and ability to work with financial systemsProven leadership skills, with demonstrated results in proactively driving and delivering high value/high-impact project results through both individual and v-team efforts.Deep understanding of the technology industry, particularly commercial public and private cloud services, business models and economics preferredComfort working at multiple altitudes, from strategic/high-level projects to detailed COGS analysis
Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,600 - $183,800 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 $122,000 - $200,500 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
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 24, 2024.
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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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