Strategic Finance Lead - Infrastructure
Core
Provide financial leadership over cloud service provider (CSP) spend, compute and model capacity planning, and broader infrastructure economics for an AI infrastructure company.
Role type
Senior strategic finance lead (infrastructure)
Builds
Multi-year capacity forecasts, scenario models, cost-driver models, and unit economics analysis for CPU, GPU, and accelerator footprints.
Domain
AI infrastructure / Cloud computing / Financial planning & analysis
Deliverable
production ML models | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Strategic finance or FP&A experience, financial modeling, ROI and trade-off analysis, CSP contract negotiation, cost-driver modeling, scenario analysis, cross-functional partnership with engineering
Preferred skills
Investment banking experience, AI/ML infrastructure economics, GPU pricing knowledge, capital-intensive capacity decision support, advanced Excel
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Azure, Excel
Responsibilities
Build and maintain multi-year capacity forecasts and scenario models; Own day-to-day management of core infrastructure spend including monthly bill and variance analysis; Lead ROI and trade-off analysis for new platforms and hardware generations; Drive efficiency and optimization initiatives with engineering teams; Support CSP rate and commit negotiations with rate analysis and contract modeling; Own management and forecasting of inference costs end-to-end including product unit economics.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
