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Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That is 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 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 team at the forefront of Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy. We are looking for talented and motivated individuals to help shape the future of our cloud products.

The team’s charter is to build out end to end Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure while driving down unit cost of capacity, ensuring cloud services achieve gross margin growth. As a crucial member of the team, you will support short- and long-term investments leveraging extensive

modeling and competitive intelligence. The focus is short-term hardware cost reduction initiatives from production approval to ramp and keep Microsoft Cloud ahead of competition all while enhancing transparency into Cloud Infrastructure investments and safeguarding shareholder interest.

Responsibilities

The Cloud Hardware and Emerging Technologies team is responsible for the GM health of the different cloud businesses through a focus on emerging technologies

and hardware solutions. The Hardware Cost Finance Manager is a critical part of this team, ensuring the Microsoft Cloud businesses achieve the gross margin targets by proactively optimizing our roadmap investments from targeted Hardware solutions. This includes decision support for approved offerings, technologies, programs, and investments, defining financial models, developing, and managing KPI’s agreed to as part of the development

process, including TCO analysis for optimization, and margin accountability.

We are looking for an initiative-taking individual who has curiosity to learn the Azure business and wants to make impact through strong partnership with key finance and engineering partners, continuous process improvements, and driving business insight.

This role is a wonderful opportunity to:

• Create insightful cost reports to provide clarity to current costs and specific focus areas to provide influence and analytics

• Provide insightful cost management and program analysis focused on short-range planning and roadmap to gross margin targets.

• Collaborate with Finance driving product profitability by Identifying and drive cross-functional efficiencies.

• Collaborate with planning teams to define, forecast and support optimal development strategies.

• Contribute to Hardware Development processes to drive accountabilities and track progress towards and TCO margin goals. • Continuously improve and evolve insights through crisp financial analysis and KPIs influencing and impacting the business.

• Articulate findings into deliverables to enable decision making across executive engineering, business, and finance leaders.

Qualifications

Our team values the following set of skills, which this role will help you enhance:

• Bachelor's degree in related field, MBA preferred

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

• Established leadership skills with strong analytical modeling and strategic thinking

• Proven data and financial modeling capabilities and ability to work with financial systems

• Ability to communicate complex analysis in a straightforward way. Executive level oral and written communication skills

• Demonstrated results proactively driving and delivering high value/high-impact project through both individual and v-team efforts

• Initiative-taker driving best-in-class decision support in ambiguous environments

• Strong collaboration capabilities, with ability to influence others without direct authority and appropriately push back as required

• Comfort working at multiple altitudes, from strategic/high-level projects to detailed COGS analysis

• Ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines, quickly prioritize impact and the resourcefulness to deliver

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .