Senior Finance Manager, GPU Demand Planning

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

7h • $97,600 - $206,400

About The Position

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. Microsoft’s CPIM team is an exciting and fast-evolving finance team at the forefront of Microsoft’s AI strategy. We are looking for a talented and motivated individual to join the Core AI team. The team’s charter is to enable AI transformation and product growth in the most cost-efficient way possible. This role will join the Core AI team and be responsible for demand and capacity planning for Anthropic models in the Foundry platform. It is an amazing opportunity to own an AI workload independently and drive engagement on demand planning and margin strategy across engineering, business planning and revenue.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in business/finance or computer science/engineering; MBA preferred.
• 4+ years of relevant experience with progressive advancement within your discipline.
• Strong partnering capabilities, with the ability to influence business partners without direct authority and to appropriately push back when required.
• Self-starter who thrives in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with evolving technology and business model trends.
• Strongly prefer a deep understanding of the technology industry, particularly commercial public and private cloud services, business models and economics.
• Ability to communicate complex analysis in a simple way. Executive level oral and written communication skills.
• Proven leadership skills, with demonstrated results in proactively driving and delivering high value/high-impact project results through both individual and virtual-team efforts.
• Strong analytical skills, financial modeling capabilities, and ability to think strategically.

Responsibilities

• Publish executive-grade monthly and quarterly financial and operational summary including insights to highlight risks and opportunities impacting bottom lines in a timely manner. Drive reviews with executive leadership, clearly communicating results and providing recommendations.
• Lead demand and capacity planning for Foundry Anthropic capacity, partnering with the product teams to shape token and GPU forecasts for feature launches, user and usage growth.
• Own analytical insights and modeling of the capacity drivers and GPU utilization, influence product investment prioritization and pricing through ROI analyses.
• Articulate findings into high quality communications and facilitate executive decision making across engineering, marketing, and finance executive leaders.
• Continuously improve and evolve COGS and Gross Margin insights garnered through financial results and KPIs with goal of influencing/impacting business in positive manner and crisp story telling.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior