Finance Lead, Cloud Financial Planning And Analysis

Be part of something revolutionary

At o9 Solutions, our mission is clear: be the Most Valuable Platform (MVP) for enterprises. With our AI-driven platform - the o9 Digital Brain - we integrate global enterprises' siloed planning capabilities, helping them capture millions and, in some cases, billions of dollars in value leakage. But our impact doesn't stop there. Businesses that plan better and faster also reduce waste, which drives better outcomes for the planet, too.

We're on the lookout for the brightest, most committed individuals to join us on our mission. Along the journey, we'll provide you with a nurturing environment where you can be part of something truly extraordinary and make a real difference for companies and the planet.

Finance Lead, Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis

At o9, we invest in people. We seek talented, driven individuals to power our transformative approach. You'll thrive in a dynamic, supportive environment, growing while making a real impact.

As our Finance Lead, Cloud FP&A, you'll be the driving force behind our cloud hosting financial forecasts - ensuring accuracy, visibility, and alignment across multiple stakeholders. You'll act as a critical liaison between Finance, R&D, Delivery, and FinOps teams, helping us improve cloud cost accuracy and forecast hosting needs across our multi-cloud platform.

This role sits at the intersection of finance strategy and technology, with a unique focus on surfacing the financial impact of platform architecture changes, optimizing cloud spend, and enabling smarter business decisions at scale.

What you'll do for us

• Own Cloud Cost Forecasting: Serve as the corporate owner for short- and long-term cloud cost planning and forecasting in coordination with R&D, Delivery, Sales, and the broader FP&A organization. Your cloud forecast will directly feed into our AOP and long-range planning processes.
• Drive Strategic Cloud Cost Optimization: Partner with FinOps, DevOps, and R&D teams to define cloud cost governance and implement cost optimization strategies using the latest tools and best practices from cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Improve Financial Visibility & Accuracy: Monitor cloud spend KPIs-budget vs. actuals, usage trends, and capacity utilization-conducting root cause and variance analyses to improve cost predictability.
• Deep Dive into Business Drivers: Build financial models and analyses to understand the cost drivers of new platform initiatives and delivery products, and translate that into actionable business insights.
• Inform Pricing & Contracting Strategy: Work with Sales, Services, and Legal to support go-to-market efforts through smarter pricing and customer contracting strategies that align with hosting cost realities.
• Support Architecture-Level Planning: Create visibility into pricing across different cloud architectures and products-evaluating upgrade requests, architecture changes, and delivery schedules to ensure accurate infrastructure cost projections.
• Ensure Accurate Resource Attribution: Collaborate with FinOps to maintain a fully cost-allocated environment, ensuring hosting costs are correctly tagged and attributed to the right business units or accounts.

What you'll have

• Education: MBA preferred
• Finance Expert with Cloud Knowledge: 6-8 years of experience in FP&A, FinOps, cloud cost optimization, or related roles within high-growth or tech-focused organizations.
• Cloud Infrastructure Fluent: You understand cloud cost drivers, billing and metering structures across AWS, GCP, or Azure, and have hands-on experience with cost optimization tools provided by these platforms.
• Data-Driven and Detail-Oriented: Highly proficient in building models and dashboards using Excel, Google Sheets, PowerPoint, and Google Slides to turn financial insights into action.
• Collaborative Cross-Functional Partner: Proven success working across Finance, R&D, Delivery, DevOps, and Legal teams. You're comfortable translating complex technical concepts into business implications.
• Clear Communicator and Thought Partner: Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence decision-making across multiple teams.
• Organized, Independent, and Curious: You thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, and bring structure, curiosity, and strategic thinking to everything you do.

What We Offer

• Competitive Salary- We recognize and reward talent.
• Tech Tools- Choose a Windows or PC laptop, whatever helps you work best.
• Flexible Work- Work from home two days a week-less commuting, more time for what matters.
• Supportive Team- Work alongside a diverse, talented team you can learn from every day.
• Diversity & Inclusion- We celebrate our international workforce and value different perspectives.
• Food & Drink- Enjoy healthy snacks, fresh fruit, teas, and coffees.

More about us…

With the latest increase in our valuation from $2.7B to $3.7B despite challenging global macroeconomic conditions, o9 Solutions is one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world today. Our mission is to digitally transform planning and decision-making for the enterprise and the planet. Our culture is high-energy and drives us to aim 10x in everything we do.

Our platform, the o9 Digital Brain, is the premier AI-powered, cloud-native platform driving the digital transformations of major global enterprises including Google, Walmart, ABInBev, Starbucks and many others.

Our headquarters are located in Dallas, with offices in Amsterdam, Paris, London, Barcelona, Madrid, Sao Paolo, Bengaluru, Tokyo, Seoul, Milan, Stockholm, Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore Munich, Toronto.

o9 is an equal opportunity employer and seeks applicants of diverse backgrounds and hires without regard to race, colour, gender, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.