Senior Finance Manager, Demand Planning

Core AI Team Member

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 GitHub Copilot. It is an amazing opportunity to own an AI workload independently and drive engagement on pricing, demand planning and cogs efficiencies across engineering, business planning and revenue.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we're dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.

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 GitHub Copilot, 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 / minimum 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

1+ years in infrastructure capacity or demand planning

2+ years of advanced Excel modeling experience used for forecasting / planning

Additional or preferred qualifications :

4+ years of relevant experience with progressive advancement within your discipline

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

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

Able to demonstrate 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 $96,500 - $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 $123,500 - $206,400 per year.