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 Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure finance 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 team's charter is to build out end to end Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure while driving down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve both profit and gross margin growth. As a crucial member of the team you'll also support long term bets and drive competitive intelligence to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition. All while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments, safeguarding shareholder
Financial Insights : Continuously improve and evolve GM insights garnered through financial results and KPIs with goal of influencing/impacting business in positive manner and crisp story telling. Workload Analytics : Partner with engineering teams to drive product profitability. Identify and drive cross-functional cost efficiencies including resource optimization, engineering optimization, fleet lifecycle management, and global capacity planning. Decision Support : Partner with the engineering and product marketing teams to support end-to-end product planning, long-term steady state profitability
Bachelor's degree in related field, MBA preferred 7+ years of relevant finance, planning or analysis work experiences with a strong analytical foundation Excellent written and verbal communications Proven PowerPoint and Excel skills Thorough and detailed oriented, while summarizing analysis to drive broader business context and insight Comfortable handing ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at fast pace Able to manage multiple work streams and prioritize as needed Strong partnering capabilities, collaborative and inclusive when working with others Synthesize and communicate analyses;