Principal Financial Analyst, OCI Storage

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation's OCI Finance team seeks a Principal Financial Analyst for storage. You will own end-to-end financial ownership, translate complex infrastructure dynamics into actionable insights, and partner with Product and Engineering to guide investments and efficiency.

You will model scenarios, analyze pricing, and drive margin optimization, while embedding with engineering leaders to influence strategic decisions at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years finance experience (MBA a plus).
• Knowledge of Cloud Technology and Infrastructure and/or experience supporting engineering preferred but not required.
• Excellent communicator with cross-functional collaboration across engineering, finance, supply chain, operations, and leadership.
• Results-driven with ability to translate ideas into actionable operational plans.
• Track record of using data insights to drive decision-making.
• Strong collaboration skills to influence without direct authority.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
• Analytical, detail-oriented, self-directed and proactive.
• Familiarity with AI-driven tools to enhance reporting and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Develop scenario-based financial and business models with product-level insights.
• Perform competitive analysis, pricing, and cost modeling for NPI.
• Link business strategy to financial reporting using KPIs and goals.
• Influence investment decisions through detailed financial analysis.
• Drive gross margin optimization through analysis of drivers.
• Own ROB activities (planning and budgeting) aligned with corporate needs.
• Participate in S&OP to ensure capacity investments are appropriate.
• Embed with engineering leaders and act as trusted advisor.
• Drive policies that monitor and support objectives.

Skills

Financial modeling

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Effective communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Analytical thinking

Prompting AI for reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance

MBA

Job description

Principal Financial Analyst - OCI Storage

ABOUT THE JOB

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is one of the fastest growing and most strategic businesses at Oracle, powering the next generation of enterprise, cloud-native, and AI workloads. Within OCI Finance, the Workload Health team plays a critical role in shaping the financial strategy and performance of the business- partnering directly with Product and Engineering leaders to drive efficient, scalable growth.

This role is a key partner to the Storage product and engineering organizations. As part of the IaaS Workload Health team, you will support end-to-end financial ownership, delivering insights that influence product strategy, investment decisions, and operational efficiency. You'll operate at the intersection of finance, technology, and data-translating complex infrastructure dynamics into clear, actionable business insights. We are looking for an enthusiastic finance analyst with a data driven mindset, modeling capabilities, and strong inter-personal skills.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop scenario-based financial and business models, with an emphasis on product level insights

• Perform competitive analysis, pricing, and cost modeling for NPI (new product introduction)

• Link business strategy to financial reporting at various levels (from a discrete service to overall offerings) using Key Performance Indicators and goal setting

• Understand and influence investment decisions through detailed financial analysis

• Drive overall gross margin optimization efforts through deep analysis of the various business, financial, and other operational drivers

• Own all financial ROB activities (such as planning and budgeting cycles) in line with corporate and business requirements

• Participate and contribute to broader Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) to ensure capacity investments are made at the right place, right time, and are the right size

• Embed deeply with engineering leaders and their teams and become their trusted advisor

• Drive policies and procedures that monitor and support the organization’s operational and business objectives

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Internal Responsibilities

PREFERRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years finance experience. MBA a plus

• Knowledge of Cloud Technology and Infrastructure and/or experience supporting engineering preferred but not required

• Excellent communicator that can work cross functionally (engineering, finance, supply chain, operations, etc.) and with all levels of the organization

• 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

• Familiarity with AI-driven tools and the ability to leverage advanced prompting techniques to enhance reporting, dashboards, and financial insights

About Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI):

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a modern, high-performance cloud platform built to run any workload-enterprise, cloud-native, and AI-securely and at scale. It delivers consistent performance, strong security, and cost efficiency for everything from mission-critical applications to data-intensive and next-generation workloads.

As a distributed cloud, OCI spans public regions, customer data centers, and multicloud environments, giving organizations the flexibility to run applications wherever they need them while maintaining consistent performance and control. Its architecture is designed with strong isolation, built-in security, and transparent pricing to provide greater predictability and governance.

OCI also serves as the foundation for Oracle's database, analytics, and application services, including Autonomous Database, and supports open standards and multicloud interoperability. With a comprehensive portfolio across compute, storage, networking, AI, and developer services, OCI helps organizations modernize existing applications and bring new ones to life using container-based and serverless technologies.

Click here to learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure products and solutions.

External Responsibilities

PREFERRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years finance experience. MBA a plus

• Knowledge of Cloud Technology and Infrastructure and/or experience supporting engineering preferred but not required

• Excellent communicator that can work cross functionally (engineering, finance, supply chain, operations, etc.) and with all levels of the organization

• 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

• Familiarity with AI-driven tools and the ability to leverage advanced prompting techniques to enhance reporting, dashboards, and financial insights

About Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI):

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a modern, high-performance cloud platform built to run any workload-enterprise, cloud-native, and AI-securely and at scale. It delivers consistent performance, strong security, and cost efficiency for everything from mission-critical applications to data-intensive and next-generation workloads.

As a distributed cloud, OCI spans public regions, customer data centers, and multicloud environments, giving organizations the flexibility to run applications wherever they need them while maintaining consistent performance and control. Its architecture is designed with strong isolation, built-in security, and transparent pricing to provide greater predictability and governance.

OCI also serves as the foundation for Oracle's database, analytics, and application services, including Autonomous Database, and supports open standards and multicloud interoperability. With a comprehensive portfolio across compute, storage, networking, AI, and developer services, OCI helps organizations modernize existing applications and bring new ones to life using container-based and serverless technologies.

Click here to learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure products and solutions.