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This Position is based in Nashville, TN Role Summary

Lead the Finance & Planning (F&P) and business operations capability supporting

Data Center Operations within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This role is

accountable for building and managing a team of five IC3 professionals,

establishing a scalable operating model, and translating data center operating

requirements into disciplined plans, reliable forecasts, controlled purchasing

execution, and decision-ready leadership insights.

As the primary business partner to Data Center Operations leadership, the Senior

Manager owns the team’s priorities, service delivery, talent development, and

continuous improvement. The role connects portfolio economics with daily

execution across purchase requisitions (PRs), purchase orders (POs), invoicing,

onboarding, and escalations, while partnering with Finance, Accounting,

Procurement, Accounts Payable, Supply Chain, Construction, and Capacity

Planning.

RESPONSIBILITIES

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

BUILD AND LEAD THE TEAM

* Stand up and directly manage five professionals: define roles, hire and

onboard talent, set individual objectives, coach performance, conduct

reviews, and build development and succession plans.

* Design the team’s service catalog, intake process, workload allocation,

service-level expectations, quality checks, and backup coverage. Balance

transactional demand with planning, analysis, and improvement priorities.

* Delegate execution with clear accountability; review throughput, accuracy,

backlog aging, and stakeholder experience. Address performance gaps and build

independent judgment within the team.

* Create an onboarding and knowledge-management program covering finance

processes, procurement workflows, systems access, data center cost drivers,

and escalation protocols. Maintain procedures, training, and cross-training.

OWN PLANNING, FORECASTING, AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP

* Lead annual operating plans, long-range plans, rolling forecasts, and

business reviews for the assigned data center portfolio in partnership with

Finance. Hold operating owners accountable for assumptions, submissions, and

corrective actions.

* Connect site and regional operating plans to capacity delivery, service

readiness, staffing, maintenance, and supplier requirements. Advise leaders

on tradeoffs among cost, reliability, capacity, execution timing, and growth.

* Maintain an integrated view of actuals, open commitments, accruals,

uncommitted forecast spend, and cash timing. Reconcile these views with

Finance to prevent double counting and identify funding gaps early.

DATA CENTER FINANCE & PLANNING

TRANSLATE OPERATING DRIVERS INTO FINANCIAL DECISIONS

* Build driver-based expense and capital forecasts by site, region, cost

center, project, and spend category. Explain changes in price, volume,

utilization, scope, timing, foreign exchange, and one-time versus recurring

costs.

* Apply working knowledge of utility tariffs, energy consumption, demand

charges, power usage effectiveness (PUE), contracted versus consumed power,

colocation charges, lease escalators, and operating service agreements to

assess financial exposure.

* Model the financial impact of critical facilities maintenance, electrical and

cooling infrastructure, spares, repairs, vendor services, labor, security,

network connectivity, and equipment lifecycle decisions. Account for

redundancy, resilience, and service requirements when evaluating cost

opportunities.

* Understand how power availability, rack density, cooling requirements, and

capacity ramp schedules affect operating costs, capital deployment, and

readiness. Evaluate high-density and AI infrastructure impacts with

engineering and capacity partners.

* Partner with Accounting on expense versus capital treatment, accrual support,

prepayments, asset in-service timing, depreciation assumptions, and

construction-to-operations handoffs under applicable policies.

* Develop business cases using total cost of ownership, payback, net present

value, and scenario analysis as appropriate. Quantify investment, recurring

cost, implementation dependencies, and reliability implications; validate

realized benefits with Finance.

* Establish comparable portfolio metrics, including cost per provisioned or

utilized kW/MW, cost per rack, maintenance cost, and vendor spend. Define

denominators and normalize for site maturity, utilization, redundancy, and

geography before drawing comparisons.

MANAGE THE PROCUREMENT AND INVOICE OPERATIONS TEAM

* Own the team’s operational delivery from intake through PR preparation,

approval tracking, PO coordination, changes and renewals, receipt

confirmation, invoice exception resolution, and closure. Ensure Procurement

and authorized approvers retain their designated decision rights.

* Require complete business justification, approved funding, accurate

cost-center/project coding, supporting contracts or statements of work, and

appropriate authorization before requests advance. Track procurement lead

times against service and project milestones.

* Oversee open-PO reviews, remaining balances, consumption, renewal dates, and

stale commitments. Coordinate PO adjustments and closeout with requestors,

Procurement, and Finance to maintain a dependable commitments view.

* Direct resolution of invoice discrepancies, missing receipts, pricing or

quantity mismatches, holds, credits, and disputed charges. Coordinate

required PO/receipt/invoice matching and payment readiness with Accounts

Payable and receiving owners.

* Coordinate supplier and service-provider onboarding with Procurement and

relevant control functions, including required documentation, supplier setup,

and operational readiness. Manage employee onboarding into the team’s

workflows and approved systems access.

GOVERNANCE, QUALIFICATIONS & OUTCOMES

LEAD CONTROLS, REPORTING, AND ESCALATIONS

* Establish approval and escalation matrices, segregation of duties, evidence

standards, and documented handoffs across Operations, Finance, Procurement,

and Accounts Payable. Exercise spending authority only within delegated

limits.

* Own the quality and timeliness of operating reviews, reporting, PAQ

responses, audit support, and leadership inquiries. Maintain consistent

definitions, accountable data owners, reconciliations, and a single

action-and-risk register.

* Act as the senior business escalation lead for blocked purchasing, invoice

disputes, supplier onboarding delays, funding gaps, and material forecast

risks. Assess financial and operational impact, assign owners and deadlines,

present decisions to the appropriate authority, and drive closure.

* Prioritize escalations that threaten critical maintenance, service

continuity, capacity milestones, or supplier performance. Turn recurring

issues into root-cause improvements, stronger controls, and updated training.

* Lead process standardization, dashboards, and workflow automation with system

owners. Establish baselines and demonstrate improvements in cycle time,

accuracy, control effectiveness, and team capacity.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related

discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

* 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in finance, planning,

business operations, or procurement operations, including 3+ years of direct

people management with accountability for hiring, coaching, performance

management, and team outcomes.

* Demonstrated finance or business operations experience supporting data

centers, cloud infrastructure, colocation, or similarly capital-intensive

operations, with a strong understanding of data center operating cost

drivers.

* Experience owning planning and forecasting cycles, variance analysis,

executive reviews, and investment decision support, with practical knowledge

of commitments, accruals, expense/capital distinctions, and cash-flow timing.

* Experience managing PR/PO workflows, invoice exceptions, supplier onboarding,

and internal controls across a matrixed organization; evidence of building or

scaling a team or shared operating capability.

* Strong financial modeling, data analysis, executive communication,

prioritization, and conflict-resolution skills. Ability to translate

operational ambiguity into clear decisions and accountable execution.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent advanced qualification; experience supporting

multi-site or global infrastructure portfolios; familiarity with Oracle Fusion

Cloud ERP/Procurement, Oracle Cloud EPM Planning, and analytics tools such as

Oracle Analytics or Power BI; experience improving workflows through automation.

SUCCESS MEASURES

Success is measured through a fully staffed and productive five-person team;

dependable service coverage and employee development; improved forecast accuracy

and timely close inputs; shorter PR-to-PO and invoice-exception cycles; lower

aged backlog and stale commitments; timely onboarding and escalation closure;

consistent control compliance; and Finance-validated improvements in cost,

productivity, and decision quality. Establish baselines and agree measurable

targets with leadership during the first 90 days.

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: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible

for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. 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.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. 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.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. 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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