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Finance Director, Data Center and AI Innovation

Microsoft· Financial Analysis
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Redmond, WA$130.9k - $277.2kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Finance Director leading the Data Center Innovation team to partner with Datacenter engineering on data center form-factor economics and emerging technologies, converting complex infrastructure decisions into clear financial narratives and prioritizing multi-year capital investments within Microsoft’s Cloud-first strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Lead financial evaluation and modeling of emerging technologies and drive prioritization, tracking, and NPV-based ranking of the innovation portfolio with Engineering.
  • Own the financial assessment of Microsoft's data center form factors - tradeoffs, costs, and optimization across SKUs, partnering with DC Engineering.
  • Own end-to-end LLE capital analytics and lead sourcing and contract economics with procurement and engineering.
  • Drive portfolio-level alignment for data center investments across different form factors.
  • Synthesize diverse data sources into clear executive summaries for leadership decision

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science or related field AND 8+ 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 10+ years experience in financial analysis, accounting, controllership or finance, or related field OR equivalent experience.
  • 1+ year(s) experience managing direct reports.
  • Preferred Qualifications: Deep experience in DC Design and/or Server Design; Experience in infrastructure finance, project finance, real assets investing, corporate development, or investment banking; 5+ years work experience in the technology or software industry; 5+ years work experience in matrix-based organization; 5+ years experience in multinationals with multi-product/multi-segment finance roles; 3+ years experience managing direct reports.

Skills

Required:Financial analysisNPV modeling

Benefits

  • Benefits and other compensation may apply. See link for additional information.
Last updated Aug 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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