Finance Director, Advertising and AI

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering and business leaders to drive financial objectives, optimize investments, and identify efficiency opportunities across Browser, Search, and News products.
• Lead financial planning and analysis for AI-driven workloads, including search quality enhancements and platform transformation.
• Develop and execute strategies to improve gross margin, vertical P&Ls, and cost-to-serve metrics, ensuring sustainable financial growth.
• Utilize advanced financial modeling, external benchmarks, and unit economic frameworks to define north-star unit costs and maximize return on invested capital.
• Craft compelling narratives using storytelling techniques to communicate complex financial insights in a clear and impactful manner to senior leadership.
• Lead a team of highly capable individuals with exceptional, inclusive people management capabilities. Foster a culture of “Model, Coach, and Care.” Recruit, develop, and retain a high-performing team.
• Own the development and execution of frameworks to guide growth and investment across Microsoft’s consumer portfolio of businesses, driving alignment of direction with executives, including SLT members.
• Partner to develop investment strategies and ROI assessments of program dollars, making tradeoffs across the O&O portfolio of products to optimize investments.
• Build competitive analytics and insights across Advertising & AI businesses, leveraging insights to shape planning discussions and influence roadmap decisions.
• Lead core financial rhythms for the O&O businesses (Budget, Forecast, LRP, Close, etc.), driving insights through analytics and maintaining high forecast accuracy.

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.