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As a company our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As an employer, we empower our own people to achieve more and make a difference in the world. Join us and be one who empowers billions!
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.
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.
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