[Remote] Senior Director, Strategic Finance – SaaS Cost of Cloud
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oracle is seeking a Senior Director to lead financial strategy and cost-of-cloud performance for Oracle’s SaaS business. This role involves owning end-to-end modeling, forecasting, and optimization across various infrastructure components, while acting as a finance partner to Cloud Operations and Product to drive margin expansion and forecast accuracy.
Responsibilities
- Own cost-of-cloud forecasting, targets, and variance analysis across products and data centers
- Build and operate bottoms-up models linking usage, capacity, and infrastructure (compute, storage, network) to cost and margin
- Drive visibility into unit economics (cost per customer, workload, environment)
- Identify and execute on margin levers (utilization, capacity, efficiency, pricing/packaging, support, royalties)
- Partner with engineering and product to influence bill of materials (BOM) and infrastructure design decisions
- Establish KPIs, reporting cadence, and governance across fragmented data and ownership models
- Own the executive narrative, translating complex technical cost drivers into clear, decision-ready insights for senior leadership
- Lead and develop team; set standards for modeling, forecasting, and accountability
Skills
- 10+ years in strategic finance, FP&A, or cloud economics within SaaS or infrastructure-driven environments
- Direct experience with cost-of-cloud modeling, unit economics, and infrastructure cost drivers required
- Strong understanding of cloud cost drivers (compute, storage, networking, data centers, capacity/utilization)
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguity and build structure across cross-functional teams
- Track record of driving margin improvement in consumption-based models
- Strong executive communication and ability to influence without authority
- Technical fluency (SQL, large data sets, automation)
Benefits
- May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
- 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
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