Director, Compute Finance FP&A
Leads financial planning, forecasting, and analysis for Compute & Infrastructure, managing the company's largest cost center. Partners with Engineering and Finance on investment decisions, scenario modeling, and efficiency tracking; requires 10+ years in strategic finance and team leadership experience.
About the job
What You’ll Do
Own compute financial planning & Forecasting
- Build and manage consolidation models for GPU/CPU capacity, storage, networking, and data center investments.
- Translate infrastructure roadmaps into short- and long-term financial forecasts (LRP, annual planning).
- Coordinate closely with Corporate FP&A on timelines and process.
- Present insights on a monthly basis to senior management.
Drive infrastructure investment decisions
- Evaluate build vs. buy, vendor vs. owned infrastructure, and capacity allocation tradeoffs.
- Develop frameworks for investment trade-offs to guide executive decision making.
Build scalable tooling & reporting
- Implement stakeholder-facing dashboards to track compute spend, utilization, and efficiency metrics.
- Improve visibility into unit economics (e.g., cost per training run, cost per inference, cost per customer).
Drive forecasting accuracy & accountability
- Lead budget vs. actual analysis for compute and infrastructure spend.
- Identify key cost drivers (utilization, pricing, efficiency gains) and reduce forecast variance.
Support close & financial reporting
- Partner with Accounting to ensure accurate classification of infrastructure spend (OpEx vs CapEx).
- Translate complex infrastructure costs into clear insights for leadership.
Enable strategic decision-making
- Build scenario models to support leadership decisions on capacity scaling, new model launches, and infrastructure investments.
- Lead ad hoc analyses on emerging topics.
You Might Thrive in This Role If You Have
- 10+ years in strategic finance, with experience in infrastructure, cloud, hardware, or compute-intensive environments.
- 2+ years in investment banking.
- Must have experience running an FP&A team at the corporate level or business unit level with significant scale.
- Strong financial modeling skills, particularly in capacity planning, unit economics, and scenario analysis under uncertainty.
- Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure or cloud spend (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure, GPUs, data centers).
- Ability to translate technical concepts (compute usage, model training/inference, system architecture) into financial insights.
- Proficiency in Excel/Sheets, SQL, and BI tools (e.g., Tableau); experience with planning systems like Anaplan is a plus.
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills, especially with Engineering, Product, and Supply Chain.
- Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure cost drivers and the economics of training and serving models.
Skills
Financial Modeling, Excel, SQL, Tableau, Anaplan, GPU, AWS, GCP, Azure, Unit Economics, Scenario Analysis, Capacity Planning
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