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.
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…