Senior Principal Financial Analyst - Oci

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · United States

This role provides financial support through analysis, modeling, planning, and forecasting for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), focusing on data center infrastructure, server/network hardware, and connectivity. The Senior Principal Finance Analyst partners with OCI leadership to align customer demand, revenue planning, and infrastructure capacity investments, developing forecasting models and scenario analyses to support strategic decision-making and optimize financial performance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Financial support to business areas through financial analysis, modeling, planning & forecasting; to facilitate decision making and future business strategies.
  2. As a member of Oracle's finance organization, the Sr. Principal Finance Analyst serves as a strategic partner to OCI leadership by delivering data-driven insights that align customer demand, revenue planning, and infrastructure capacity investments.
  3. The analyst evaluates demand trends, customer consumption forecasts, and capacity requirements to identify risks, opportunities, and gaps between revenue objectives and infrastructure readiness.
  4. Working cross-functionally with Finance, Capacity Planning, Cloud Operations, Sales, and Product teams, the role develops forecasting models, scenario analyses, and executive reporting that support investment decisions, resource prioritization, and long-term growth strategies.
  5. The analyst also monitors key business signals, drives forecast accuracy, and provides actionable recommendations that optimize OCI’s ability to meet strategic customer commitments while maximizing financial performance and capital efficiency.

Skills

Required

  • Strategic Financial Planning & Analysis
  • Long-range planning (LRP)
  • Forecasting
  • Budgeting
  • Financial modeling
  • Demand & Revenue Forecasting
  • Analyze customer demand signals
  • Analyze consumption trends
  • Analyze revenue drivers
  • Scenario Modeling & Capacity Alignment
  • Develop scenario analyses
  • Connect customer demand, revenue expectations, and infrastructure or operational capacity planning
  • Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Partner effectively across Finance, Sales, Operations, Capacity Planning, Product, and Executive Leadership teams
  • Executive Communication
  • Present complex analyses, business cases, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership
  • Business Acumen
  • Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, technology, AI/GPU market dynamics, or related high-growth technology sectors
  • Translate operational trends into financial implications
  • Risk Assessment & Opportunity Identification
  • Proactively identify forecast gaps, capacity constraints, investment risks, and growth opportunities
  • Develop mitigation strategies and recommendations

Nice to have

  • MBA or advanced degree
  • Experience supporting cloud, infrastructure, data center, AI, GPU, or large-scale technology businesses
  • Experience working with executive stakeholders in highly matrixed, fast-paced environments
  • Demonstrated success managing ambiguous business problems and developing scalable planning frameworks

What the JD emphasized

  • Emphasis in Data Center infrastructure, Server & Network rack hardware, and Network connectivity.
  • align customer demand, revenue planning, and infrastructure capacity investments
  • connect customer demand, revenue expectations, and infrastructure or operational capacity planning
  • cloud infrastructure, technology, AI/GPU market dynamics