Finance Lead, Cloud Financial Planning And Analysis

Transforming the Future of Enterprise Planning

At o9, our mission is to be the Most Value-Creating Platform for enterprises by transforming decision-making through our AI-first approach. By integrating siloed planning capabilities and capturing millions-even billions-in value leakage, we help businesses plan smarter and faster.

This not only enhances operational efficiency but also reduces waste, leading to better outcomes for both businesses and the planet. Global leaders like Google, PepsiCo, Walmart, T-Mobile, AB InBev, and Starbucks trust o9 to optimize their supply chains.

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…

At o9, transparency and open communication are at the core of our culture. Collaboration thrives across all levels-hierarchy, distance, or function never limit innovation or teamwork. Beyond work, we encourage volunteering opportunities, social impact initiatives, and diverse cultural celebrations.

With a $3.7 billion valuation and a global presence across Dallas, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid, London, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, and Munich, o9 is among the fastest-growing technology companies in the world. Through our aim10x vision, we are committed to AI-powered management, driving 10x improvements in enterprise decision-making. Our Enterprise Knowledge Graph enables businesses to anticipate risks, adapt to market shifts, and gain real-time visibility. By automating millions of decisions and reducing manual interventions by up to 90%, we empower enterprises to drive profitable growth, reduce inefficiencies, and create lasting value.

o9 is an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, ensuring a fair and unbiased hiring process. Join us as we continue our growth journey!