Principal Financial Analyst, OCI

Principal Financial Analyst, OCI

Drive GPU margin insights, build financial models, and support key infrastructure projects in a fast-growing, high-impact finance role.

Financial support to business areas through financial analysis, budgeting, planning & forecasting; to facilitate decision making and future business strategies.

Responsibilities

• As a member of Oracle's finance organization, you will be responsible for providing all aspects of financial support for planning and control.
• Assist in consolidation and reporting of financial results; preparation of annual budget.
• Gather, model, analyze, prepare, and summarize information for financial plans, operating forecasts, trended future specifications, etc.; on a weekly, monthly, or quarterly basis.
• Prepares recommendations based on analyzes.
• May perform revenue and expense analysis, headcount and headcount driven expense analysis at cost center level, tracking of product and product line revenue, reconciliation of accounts receivable, variance analysis and ad-hoc analysis as needed.
• You may participate in cross functional programs and projects.

Minimum Skills & Experience

• A BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA or relevant advanced degree a plus.
• 8+ years of finance experience within the tech, cloud, or infrastructure sector.
• Advanced Quantitative Modeling: Demonstrated expertise in complex financial and quantitative analysis, specifically applied to infrastructure CapEx, OpEx, and P&L within a large technology organization.
• Technical Infrastructure Fluency: Strong technical understanding of cloud infrastructure, including data center operations (e.g., experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or expertise with networking OEMs/providers).
• Cost Driver Analysis: Proven, hands-on experience dissecting multi-million-dollar infrastructure cost structures to identify margin-impacting drivers and enable effective gross margin management.
• Strategic Problem Solving: Ability to work independently, manage quickly shifting business priorities, and consistently find solutions amid ambiguity in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
• Ability to work independently and navigate ambiguous, high-stakes deal environments.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.

Preferred (But Not Required) Qualifications

• Deal Pricing/Contract Modeling: Prior exposure to complex deal pricing or contract financial modeling (training is available for candidates with strong core infrastructure finance skills).
• Strategic Agreement Insight: Experience providing finance or cost insights in the context of large strategic contracts or client/vendor agreements.
• Process Excellence: A strong aptitude for identifying improvement opportunities and driving the creation or refinement of financial and operational processes.

Key skills/competency

• Financial Modeling
• Quantitative Analysis
• Cloud Infrastructure
• CapEx/OpEx Management
• Gross Margin Management
• Cost Driver Analysis
• Strategic Problem Solving
• Financial Forecasting
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• P&L Management