Principal Financial Analyst, OCI Storage

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 115,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Financial Analyst for OCI Storage within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure finance team. You will partner with Product and Engineering leaders to drive financial strategy, ownership, and scalable growth across the Storage portfolio.

You will translate complex infrastructure dynamics into actionable business insights, support end-to-end financial ownership, and influence investment decisions with data-driven analysis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with finance experience; MBA a plus.
• Knowledge of Cloud Technology and Infrastructure a plus but not required.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to work cross-functionally and influence others.

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 goal setting.
• Understand and influence investment decisions through detailed financial analysis.
• Drive gross margin optimization through analysis of drivers.
• Own all financial planning and budgeting cycles in line with requirements.
• Participate in S&OP to align capacity investments.

Skills

Data analysis

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Economics/Related field

MBA

Tools

Excel

SQL

Power BI

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.

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

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.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $84,500 - $187,000 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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