Principal Financial Analyst, Oci, Iaas Workload Health

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · United States

This role is for a Principal Finance Analyst on the Workload Health team within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The individual will be a key business advisor to product and engineering, with end-to-end product ownership as a customer lead. Responsibilities include leading financial analysis, developing financial and business models, performing competitive analysis, linking business strategy to financial reporting, influencing investment decisions, driving gross margin optimization, owning financial ROB activities, and participating in Sales & Operations Planning. The role requires a data-driven mindset, robust modeling capabilities, and the ability to work with all levels of the organization. Knowledge of cloud technology and infrastructure is preferred but not required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and manage the analysis of key high-value customers across all products within the IaaS Portfolio
  2. Develop scenario-based financial and business models, with a specific focus on deriving product-level insights for high-value (whale) customers.
  3. Perform competitive analysis, pricing, and cost modeling for NPI (new product introduction)
  4. Link business strategy to financial reporting at various levels (from a discrete service to overall offerings) using KPIs, and goal setting
  5. Understand and influence investment decisions through detailed financial analysis

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years finance experience
  • Excellent communicator that can work across disciplines (engineering, finance, supply chain, operations, etc.) and various levels of the organization
  • Results oriented with the ability to translate ideas into operational plans and follow through
  • Strong partnering capabilities with the ability to influence others without direct authority
  • Takes initiative to achieve value added results
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty in a business that evolves at a hyper pace
  • Excellent analytic and strategic 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
  • Track record of using data insights to help drive decision-making