Principal Financial Analyst, OCI, Strategic Accounts

Overview

This role supports cloud infrastructure financial planning and modeling for a specific product family within the broader OCI ecosystem. The team serves as a partner and strategic adviser to leadership, helping optimize business economics while scaling rapidly.

You will act as a key business advisor to the product and engineering organization with end-to-end product ownership as a “whale customer” lead. The scope requires both big-picture understanding and attention to underlying details, including the ability to lead product-specific projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the analysis of key high-value customers across all products within the IaaS portfolio
• Develop scenario-based financial and business models, with a focus on deriving product-level insights for high-value (“whale”) customers
• 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 KPIs and goal setting
• Understand and influence investment decisions through detailed financial analysis
• Drive overall gross margin optimization efforts by analyzing business, financial, and other operational drivers
• Own financial ROB activities (including planning and budgeting cycles) in line with corporate and business requirements
• Contribute to Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) to ensure capacity investments are made in the right place, right time, and at the right size
• Embed with engineering leaders and their teams and serve as a trusted advisor
• Drive policies and procedures that monitor and support operational and business objectives

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years finance experience; MBA a plus
• Knowledge of Cloud Technology and Infrastructure and/or experience supporting engineering preferred

Preferred Qualifications / Skills

• Excellent communication skills across disciplines (engineering, finance, supply chain, operations, etc.) and at various levels of the organization
• Results-oriented with the ability to translate ideas into operational plans and follow through
• Track record of using data insights to drive decision-making
• Strong partnering capabilities; ability to influence others without direct authority
• Takes initiative to achieve value-added results
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and uncertainty in a business evolving at a hyper pace
• Strong analytic and strategic thinking skills with attention to detail
• Self-directed and proactive; able to multi-task and take ownership of work

Compensation & Benefits

• US hiring range: $84,500 - $187,000 per year
• May be eligible for bonus and equity

Benefits package may include:

• 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 for eligible salaried (non-overtime eligible) positions
  • Accrued Vacation for other eligible employees
  • For employees working at least 35 hours/week: 13 days annually for first three years; 18 days annually for subsequent years
  • Vacation accrual prorated for employees working 20–34 hours/week
  • Employees working fewer than 20 hours/week are not eligible for vacation
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon date of hire; refreshes each calendar year and carries over 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

Location

US

Additional Information

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.

Accommodations: As part of onboarding for US-based employees, identity verification is required and involves collection and processing of biometric information; accommodations may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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