Principal Financial Analyst, OCI Virtual Networking

• 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, 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.

This role is a key partner to the Virtual Networking 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., * 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 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., Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.