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Posted date: Aug 14, 2025
Category: Finance
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $169,750
Range: $116,900 - $222,600
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’s what inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day. Through our Cloud-first strategy, we strive to deliver solutions that are optimized for the world and enable customers to drive their business more successfully. The Cloud Product Infrastructure Margin team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy.The Data Center Infrastructure and Strategy team drives portfolio-level decision-making for Microsoft’s global data center investments. As a key member of this team, you will shape strategic partnerships and lead competitive intelligence efforts to sustain Microsoft Cloud’s leadership position. We are seeking a Group Finance Manager - Cloud Infrastructure to oversee critical infrastructure investments and synthesize insights across the infrastructure stack to drive efficiency and strategic alignment.
Strategic Planning Alignment: Partner with data center (DC) demand and supply planning teams to ensure financial strategies are aligned with infrastructure growth, capacity needs, and long-range planning objectives, including key supply-side initiatives like liquid cooling transition, SKU roadmap alignment and AI Whale/Training supply.
Cross-Functional Integration: Act as a finance liaison across DC, networking, and operations teams to drive a cohesive plan on infrastructure efficiencies and KPIs.
Drive business development initiatives by identifying infrastructure growth opportunities across AI and DC portfolios, aligning financial strategies with emerging technologies such as liquid cooling, SKU transitions, and AI training capacity.
Lead deal and option analysis to evaluate investment scenarios, infrastructure trade-offs, and long-range planning impacts, enabling data-driven decisions that optimize cost efficiency and strategic value.
Insight-Driven Decision Support: Translate operational plans into financial impacts, identifying risks and opportunities to optimize cost efficiency and return on investment.
Synthesize diverse data sources into clear executive summaries for leadership decisions.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications:Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR equivalent experience.3+ years working in a matrixed organization
Additional or preferred qualifications:
5+ years work experience in the technology or software industry. 5+ years work experience in matrix-based organization. 5+ years experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles. 3+ years experience managing direct reports. Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 12+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience OR Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 15+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience OR equivalent experience.
Financial Analysis IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $116,900 - $203,600 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 $148,400 - $222,600 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 August 25, 2025.
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