Oracle India | Specialist Financial Analyst

Responsibilities

• This high-impact individual contributor role is accountable for revenue and margin forecasting across assigned Lines of Business (LOBs) and regions.
• The role drives forecasting excellence through data-driven insights, automation, and AI-enabled Oracle technologies.
• As a trusted finance business partner, the incumbent will collaborate closely with business leaders to improve forecast accuracy, support informed decision-making, and deliver actionable financial insights that enable business growth.
• The role provides comprehensive financial support across planning, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and business performance management to support long-term business success.
• As a member of Oracle's finance organization, you will be responsible for providing all aspects of financial support for planning and control.
• Own the forecasting process for assigned LOBs and regions.
• Develop and maintain driver-based forecasting models, run-rate analyses, and predictive forecasts to improve accuracy.
• Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning activities.
• Analyze actual performance against forecasts, budgets, and prior-year results, identifying key variances, business risks, and opportunities.
• Deliver financial insights and strategic recommendations to support executive decision-making.
• Ensure the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial forecasts and reporting.
• Partner closely with business leaders to understand revenue drivers, business priorities, operational initiatives, and strategic objectives.
• Serve as a trusted financial advisor, providing data-driven recommendations and constructively challenging assumptions.
• Lead automation initiatives to streamline and optimize forecasting and reporting processes.
• Identify process improvements that reduce manual effort, improve efficiency, and enhance data quality.
• Drive continuous improvement through the adoption of relevant technologies and best practices.
• Develop predictive models, scenario plans, and what-if analyses to assess business performance under different assumptions.
• Assist in consolidation and reporting of financial results; preparation of annual budget.
• Prepares recommendations based on analyzes.
• Forecasting and Financial Management
• Translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights that support operational and strategic decisions.
• Use AI-powered forecasting and planning tools to improve forecast accuracy, productivity, and decision support.
• Champion the adoption of AI-enabled, data-driven finance solutions to strengthen planning and forecasting capabilities.
• Influencing and stakeholder management
• Gather, model, analyze, prepare, and summarize information for financial plans, operating forecasts, trended future specifications, etc.; on a weekly, monthly, or quarterly basis.

Experience and qualifications

• Nine years of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Commercial Finance, or Financial Management.
• Strong financial planning, forecasting, analytical, and business partnering skills.
• Proficiency in Oracle, Excel, and data analytics tools would be an advantage.

Oracle

Oracle Corporation is a US technology company, founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates and listed on the New York Stock Exchange as ORCL. It is best known for the Oracle Database, and today it also sells cloud business applications such as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, HCM and supply-chain software and NetSuite, runs its own public cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and, since buying Cerner in 2022, provides health-record systems through Oracle Health. Its headquarters are in Austin, Texas, and a new headquarters campus is being built in Nashville, Tennessee.

Oracle India Private Limited runs some of Oracle's largest teams outside the United States, with big centres in Bengaluru and Hyderabad and offices in other cities, and Oracle operates cloud regions in Mumbai and Hyderabad. Most India roles are in software development, cloud operations and data centres, consulting, support and sales. Openings in Oracle's corporate functions, such as finance, revenue accounting and collections, and functional consulting on Oracle's own finance software are the ones that usually suit CA, CMA, MBA (Finance) and commerce profiles.

• Industry: Enterprise software and cloud — database, business applications and cloud infrastructure
• Headquarters: Austin, Texas, USA (new headquarters under construction in Nashville, Tennessee)
• In India: Large teams in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, with offices and Oracle Cloud data centres in Mumbai and other cities