Senior Finance Manager - AI Business Health
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Dec 19, 2024 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft'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. The Microsoft Strategy and Investment Optimization (MSIO) finance team is an exciting and fast-evolving team at the forefront of Microsoft's Cloud-first strategy. This role is at the center of the Product Gross Margin Strategy to help build great cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI) services while influencing business models, levers to continuously drive gross margin growth and accelerate path to north star goal. As a crucial member of the team, you will also support long term bets and drive competitive intelligence to keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition and lead the AI platform wave, safeguarding shareholder interest. We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager - AI Business Health to join the Gross Margin financial planning and analysis team focused on the AI business portfolio. The role will expand the depth of analysis for AI gross margin performance and be responsible for developing crisp actionable insights for leadership and internal stakeholders.
Responsibilities* Thought leadership to understand AI Graphics Processing Units (GPU) investment cost-in economics and implement cost attribution across different business unit PnLs based on principles, operational drivers to drive usage transparency, Return on Investment (ROI) accountability.* Own analysis, insights on GPU utilization, usage costs across all businesses toinfluence demand / supply plans and influence end customer pricing.* Own monthly and quarterly financial, operational GM reviews (close, forecast,budget) with finance and engineering executives , clearly communicating results andrecommendations to senior business leaders across the AI, WebXT and Consumer businesses. | |