Senior Finance Manager - Datacenter Cost out/Mantis

• Serve as the finance owner and product lead for the Microsoft datacenter cost planning and modeling toolset, partnering with Mantis Engineering (CSCP) to build a world-class platform for forecasting, scenario modeling, and long-range planning
• Translate finance requirements into engineering specifications: define data models, calculation logic, driver hierarchies, scenario frameworks, and version-control needs
• Drive the product roadmap with Mantis — prioritizing capabilities against finance-cycle deadlines
• Lead UAT, model validation, and rollout to the Finance community
• ensure adoption through training, documentation, and feedback loops
• Establish governance (model integrity, change control, audit trails, and reconciliation standards) across the full data-to-reporting lifecycle, ensuring impacts are understood and financial accuracy is maintained
• Partner with Finance Data & Engineering (FD&E) to build analytic tools (Power BI, semantic models, data marts) that make Datacenter cost data accessible and transparent across finance and engineering stakeholders
• Define the metrics, dimensions, and views that surface unit economics, cost drivers, and variance insights at multiple levels (workload, service, region, hardware generation)
• Champion data quality, lineage, and consistency across planning, actuals, and reporting layers
• close gaps between source systems and finance-ready data
• Reduce manual analysis cycles by productizing recurring analytics into self-serve dashboards and tools
• Use the modeling platform to deliver insights to Finance leadership and engineering partners
• Partner with capacity planning, supply chain, and engineering finance teams to ensure model assumptions reflect operational reality
• Own and evolve financial hierarchies, mappings, and allocation logic to ensure accurate translation of infrastructure usage into financial outcomes
• Influence investment, sourcing, and efficiency decisions through transparent modeling and clear financial narratives.

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.

• Masters Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 6+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership, or finance work experience OR Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ years of post-graduate financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance work experience OR equivalent experience
• MBA or CPA
• Experience with hyperscale cloud, datacenter, or infrastructure cost modeling, including capacity planning, unit economics, or cloud margin analytics
• Track record of building complex, driver-based financial models from scratch and owning them through multiple planning cycles
• Experience as a finance product owner or business lead for an enterprise planning, modeling, or analytics platform (e.g., Anaplan, Pigment, Mantis/CSCP) — partnering with engineering teams on roadmap, requirements, and delivery as a builder or model owner
• Experience partnering with finance data engineering teams on semantic models, data marts, or finance data platforms
• Technical fluency in advanced Excel modeling, Power BI, and SQL, with the ability to reason about data schemas, ETL, and semantic models
• Proficient ability to translate between finance and engineering audiences.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.