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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 Commercial Product Infrastructure (CPI) 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 optimize our investments in cloud infrastructure while driving down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve both profit and gross margin growth. We are recruiting a Senior Finance Manager in Azure CoreAI finance Margin Strategy team to partner closely with engineering and PM teams of Azure Foundry Tools, Azure AI Search and Azure Responsible AI to identify and execute infrastructure efficiency opportunities that drive lower unit costs for delivering cloud solutions. This work will enable competitive Azure pricing, support continued market share growth, and drive sustained improvement in product margins. The role also partners with planning teams across revenue, datacenter operations, hardware roadmap, and GPU demand and capacity management to optimize total cost of ownership end to end. It's an unique opportunity that directly shapes forward looking cloud investment decisions and builds strong cross functional collaboration to land meaningful impact.
Job Responsibility
Own end-to-end margin strategy for Azure Foundry Tools, Azure AI Search and Azure
Translate product and engineering decisions into financial outcomes, building clear linkage between usage, efficiency levers, and P&L impact
Lead demand, cost, and capacity modeling (e.g., GPU, infra, utilization) to inform pricing, investment, and scaling decisions
Drive efficiency roadmap across model architecture, infra utilization, and operating points
quantify and track impact vs. targets
Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and Business teams to embed margin accountability into roadmap and prioritization
Influence pricing and monetization strategy, including rate setting, cost recovery, and trade-offs between growth and profitability
Deliver executive-ready insights (MBRs, reviews, ad hoc deep dives) with clear narratives on drivers, risks, and actions
Establish governance and operating cadence to track margin performance, ensure accountability, and accelerate decision-making.
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 have
Proficient written and verbal communication skills
Detailed oriented, with proven ability to summarize analysis to drive broader business context and insight
Comfortable handling ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at fast pace
Able to manage multiple work streams and prioritize as needed
Demonstrated ability to build strong partnerships, fostering collaboration and inclusivity across teams
Ability to synthesize complex analyses and deliver clear, actionable insights to senior leaders and business partners.