Director, Finance & Strategy – Infrastructure

Role Overview

• Provide and communicate a consolidated view of the Infrastructure and Security organization’s financial performance against budget & outlook including potential risks and opportunities.
• Ensure all monthly, quarterly close, and forecast deliverables are accurate and on time with high coordination with other Finance leadership who provide expertise in specific expense areas.
• Communicate early, clearly and concisely on the financial results of the Infrastructure organization to Senior Finance leadership.
• Primary finance business partner (FBP) to the Executive Vice President (EVP) of Engineering and FinOps acting as a strategic advisor on infrastructure budget, engineering efficiency, and operating margin impact (including COGS and R&D).
• Lead and develop a team of finance professionals, fostering a culture of high-velocity execution and "AI-first" financial fluency. You will be responsible for the professional growth of your team and the scalability of their output.
• Lead all budgeting and forecasting for the infrastructure organization including annual planning, target setting, quarterly re-forecast and monthly budget vs. actual activities with the team.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure KPIs and scorecards.
• Coordinate with the FinOps team to ensure financial forecasts and risks related to public cloud are communicated accurately and synthesized for leadership consumption.
• Lead collaboration with Procurement teams to influence supplier strategy and ensure spend forecasts are aligned with technical scaling requirements and engineering roadmaps.
• Develop dashboards and KPIs related to product royalties and internal AI token usage.
• Help develop and maintain long range plan (LRP) for infrastructure and products.
• Prepare and present high-quality executive presentations for product and engineering leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics or other relevant discipline or equivalent relevant experience required.
• Experience will be evaluated based on the Core Competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
• Experience managing large full-expense budgets within large enterprise organizations
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in finance, consulting or analytics
• Exceptional relationship-building skills demonstrated by ability to grow and nurture relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Strong manager experience with previous direct reports.
• Track record of mentoring, motivating and developing teams.
• Cloud Fluency: Deep, hands-on experience with Public Cloud economics (AWS, GCP, or Azure), forecasting and budgeting.
• Demonstrated success in driving both strategic and operational activities.
• Proven skill in managing multiple stakeholders and leading cross functional initiatives.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, successfully applying this skill set to the business context.
• Extensive financial modeling experience.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities with the ability to prioritize.
• Excellent quantitative, written and presentation skills; innovative, organized, thorough and an eagerness to further develop these skills.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform

Benefits

• time off programs
• medical
• dental
• vision
• mental health support
• paid parental leave
• life and disability insurance
• 401(k)
• employee stock purchasing program