Finance Director - Data Analytics & AI Transformation

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Redmond, WA +1 · Financial Analysis

Finance Director role focused on advancing Treasury's analytics maturity and scaling AI-enabled transformation across Treasury operations. The role leads a team to deliver data-driven insights, intelligent automation, and scalable analytics solutions that improve financial decision-making, productivity, and business outcomes. It partners across Finance, Engineering, and business stakeholders to build a modern, data-driven function under Treasury aligned to Microsoft’s transformation agenda.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and coach a high-performing team of analysts and transformation leads; foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement
  2. Define and execute Treasury analytics roadmap; standardize KPIs and reporting; enable self-service insights and data democratization
  3. Identify and implement AI, automation, and advanced analytics use cases; partner with Engineering to deploy scalable, enterprise solutions
  4. Simplify, standardize, and automate end-to-end processes; embed analytics into Treasury workflows to improve speed, accuracy, and efficiency
  5. Drive complex transformation initiatives across Treasury and Engineering; influence stakeholders on priorities, trade-offs, and execution
  6. Define and track KPIs across analytics adoption, automation impact, productivity gains, and cost efficiency; deliver tangible business outcomes

Skills

Required

  • 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.

Nice to have

  • 3+ years of people management experience
  • Expertise in data analytics, business intelligence, and AI adoption and experiments
  • Proven ability to lead data-driven transformation with measurable impact
  • Experience leading AI and automation initiatives in Finance
  • Familiarity with Power BI, Azure Data/Fabric, Databricks, SQL, or similar platforms
  • Experience partnering with Engineering or Data Science teams

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-enabled transformation
  • AI, automation, and advanced analytics use cases
  • AI adoption and experiments
  • AI and automation initiatives in Finance