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The Infrastructure Finance team manages Meta's capital and operating expenses for Infrastructure which is one of the largest areas of investment at the company as we invest in advanced AI infrastructure. We focus on using our unique view into the numbers to identify trends and opportunities that are developing within Meta and within related industries. The team is seeking an analytical Finance and Strategy professional to help lead a subset of areas such as modeling, capital allocation and business finance related to Data Centers, Server Hardware and Network Engineering & Optical Fiber capacity. This role will directly work with various other key leads in Finance, Infrastructure, Products, Product Management and Data Science. This role will challenge you to both understand and contribute to many facets of a rapidly growing business. You will prioritize high-impact initiatives, make timely decisions with available data, and balance thoroughness with speed of execution.This role carries broad responsibility across financial planning, capital allocation, and strategic decision-making within the finance organization. You will contribute to a finance organization supporting rapidly scaling infrastructure investments. This position will work very closely with teams that are collectively building large-scale Infrastructure to power AI products that are being rolled out to Meta’s 3 Billion+ users.
Director, Infrastructure Finance Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of finance and business operations professionals as an individual contributor or people manager
• Drive the financial modeling, analysis and process for purposes of long range planning, budgeting and ad hoc strategic decisions
• Act as the finance budget and P&L owner for one of the areas of Infrastructure with double digit billion dollars in capital and operating expenses
• Co-author executive-level presentations and documents, including those for the CFO, COO, CEO and the Board related to Infrastructure financial investments and allocations
• Build business partnerships with leadership across Finance, Infrastructure, Products, Product Management, and Data Science
• Build analyses to drive investment decisions, such as return on investment on capital and operating expenditures for Infrastructure
• Provide analytical support and develop actionable insights that will influence decision makers to allocate infrastructure resources more effectively
• Help executives gain key insights into spend through analysis and reporting
• Help define and implement scalable modeling, financial, and resource allocation processes to make the business more efficient
• Drive process improvements and enhance the current models, tools, systems, and processes

Minimum Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in a finance or strategy leadership role, such as at a management consulting firm, investment bank, or comparable organization, with projects focused on the technology and internet sectors
• Bachelor's degree in a business, finance, or technically related field
• Experience working at a public cloud company, hyperscaler, AI Lab, a company with a large infrastructure footprint
• Experience in leading and developing teams
• Experience working with detailed financial models and identifying key risks and sensitivities in the context of capital allocation on the scale of tens of billions of dollars
• Strategic thinker with experience driving decision making in ambiguous environments with experience influencing executive stakeholders
• Demonstrated track record of being able to negotiate financially optimal outcomes during conflicts while also building long-term relationships with executives
• Analytical problem-solving skills, and having a track record of success leading projects and developing complex solutions across multiple stakeholders
• Effective collaborators and skilled cross-functional communicator
• Experience in managing multiple projects and collaborating with all internal and external stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

• A graduate degree or PhD in a business, finance, or technically related field

About Meta:
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.