Principal Financial Analyst, Oci, Iaas Product Lead

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · United States

This role is a Principal Financial Analyst for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), focusing on the IaaS Product Lead aspect. The role involves supporting end-to-end financial ownership, delivering insights to influence product strategy, investment decisions, and operational efficiency within the Compute product and engineering organizations. It requires developing financial models, performing competitive analysis and pricing, linking business strategy to financial reporting, and driving gross margin optimization. The role also involves owning financial ROB activities, participating in S&OP, and embedding with engineering leaders as a trusted advisor.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop scenario-based financial and business models, with an emphasis on product level insights
  2. Perform competitive analysis, pricing, and cost modeling for NPI (new product introduction)
  3. Link business strategy to financial reporting at various levels (from a discrete service to overall offerings) using Key Performance Indicators and goal setting
  4. Understand and influence investment decisions through detailed financial analysis
  5. Drive overall gross margin optimization efforts through deep analysis of the various business, financial, and other operational drivers

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years finance experience
  • Excellent communicator that can work cross functionally
  • Results driven, and able to translate ideas into operational plans and achieve valuable results
  • Track record of using data insights to help drive decision-making
  • Strong collaboration skills with the ability to influence others without direct authority
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at a hyper pace
  • Excellent analytic and critical thinking skills with a strong attention to detail
  • Self-directed and proactive with ability to multi-task and take ownership of work

Nice to have

  • MBA a plus
  • Knowledge of Cloud Technology and Infrastructure and/or experience supporting engineering preferred but not required
  • Familiarity with AI-driven tools and the ability to leverage advanced prompting techniques to enhance reporting, dashboards, and financial insights

What the JD emphasized

  • AI workloads
  • AI-driven tools