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Finance Director, AI Applications, OPEX FP&A Lead

Microsoft· Financial Analysis
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Redmond, WA$130.9k - $277.2kfull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Finance Director role focused on resource investment strategy to drive cost leadership and optimal resource allocation for Microsoft’s AI/engineering portfolio, partnering with engineering and finance leaders to align $20B+ resources with strategic priorities.

Responsibilities

  • Business and Finance Partnership: Provide strategic leadership to top Engineering and Finance leaders to drive operating leverage through resource allocation and investment optimization by giving visibility to the current resource landscape, analyzing macro-level results, and applying systems thinking to identify and recommend levers to influence decision-making.
  • Business Health: Drive process excellence while partnering across Engineering and Finance to continuously assess the overall health of the business and understand key drivers to identify opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs. Ensure resources and investments are constantly aligned with business strategy, product engineering roadmaps, and company priorities.
  • Thought Leadership: Establish and leverage holistic analytical framework and best practices across Finance to spot and anticipate trends and deliver insights to unlock greater efficiencies for resource allocation and investment spend.
  • Embody our culture and values

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.

Skills

Required:Financial analysis
Nice to have:Scenario analysisInfluence without authorityCommunication & presentationExcel/Power BI and SQL

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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