• Act as the primary finance partner to Product Management, Engineering, and Technology leaders. • Support product roadmap planning with rigorous financial analysis, scenario modeling, and investment prioritization. • Translate product and technology strategy into clear financial outcomes, tradeoffs, and decision frameworks. • Lead financial evaluation of new product introductions (NPIs), platform investments, and major feature initiatives. • Develop and review business cases, including TAM assumptions, pricing models, cost structures, and payback analysis. • Establish and track ROI metrics, ensuring accountability from initial approval through post-launch performance. • Conduct post-investment reviews to assess variance vs. plan and recommend corrective actions. • Own financial oversight of Microsoft Azure spend, partnering with Engineering, Cloud Ops, and Security. • Build and maintain cloud cost models, forecasts, and optimization plans. • Monitor and analyze consumption drivers (compute, storage, data, networking) and identify cost-efficiency opportunities. • Support FinOps initiatives, including cost allocation and usage governance. • Manage customer-level and product-level cloud margins, including COGS attribution and profitability analysis. • Partner with GTM, Product, and Engineering to improve software gross margin and scalability. • Analyze pricing, packaging, and usage patterns to ensure margins improve with. • Support strategic decisions around build vs. buy, architecture changes, and platform investments. • Own product and technology operating forecasts, including headcount, cloud spending, and capitalized development costs. • Create executive-ready reporting that highlights financial performance, risks, and investment outcomes. • Provide ad-hoc analysis to support leadership decisions, M&A diligence, and long-range. • Influence stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Cloud, and GTM teams. • Help establish financial discipline while maintaining speed and innovation. • Perform other duties as assigned to support departmental and company objectives.