Group Finance Manager, Core AI

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. We are hiring a Group Finance Manager to lead margin strategy and efficiency for the AI Foundry Platform, partnering deeply with engineering and product teams to drive model and infrastructure efficiency at scale. This role owns identification and execution of efficiency levers across model architecture, inference optimization, and compute utilization to reduce unit cost of AI workloads. The work directly enables competitive pricing, supports growth, and drives sustained GM% expansion. You will operate end-to-end across the value chain—partnering with model engineering, infra/GPU platform, datacenter operations, hardware roadmap, and demand and capacity planning—to optimize total cost of ownership and align investment decisions with long-term margin targets. This is a high-impact role shaping forward-looking AI platform economics, influencing roadmap and operating points, and building cross-functional alignment to deliver measurable financial outcomes.