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.
Responsibilities
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
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.
Financial Analysis IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $97,600 - $188,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $125,000 - $206,400 per year.
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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Skills Required
- 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.
- 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.
- Self-starter who thrives in ambiguous, fast-moving environments with evolving technology and business model trends.
- 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.
Microsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Microsoft and has not been reviewed or approved by Microsoft.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is presented as broadly competitive overall, with clear role/level/location variation and an emphasis on using posted ranges and band information for apples-to-apples comparisons.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are described as a standout, highlighted by a strong 401(k) match structure and immediate vesting, plus additional plan features for tax-advantaged saving.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are portrayed as a meaningful strength, with substantial paid parental leave and added supports like back-up care and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
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What We Do
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in this world.
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