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Apple

Designs phones, computers and their operating systems

Cloud Infrastructure Financial and Strategic Lead

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior
Bachelor's
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
In PersonTravel up to 10% is required.
Finance & BankingCorporate Finance & FP&A

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 7 years of Finance or Business experience in a fast-paced environment, including FP&A, Corporate Finance, or Engineering.
  • Technical proficiency with advanced financial modeling tools and scripting languages, including SQL, Python, and Excel.
  • A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or another quantitative field.
  • A technical or business background in cloud technologies, with hands-on cloud cost management experience in a large-scale enterprise multi-cloud environment.
  • Willingness to travel 10%.
Responsibilities
  • Provide financial analyst support for Apple Infrastructure allocations, quarterly joint venture preparation, and various financial planning and analysis tasks for business partners.
  • Collaborate, consolidate, and analyze operating and financial results across the extended team of financial analysts.
  • Summarize key drivers and communicate changes to IS&T, Finance leadership, and other key stakeholders across the company.
  • Continue developing key processes, tools, and analytics supporting the annual plan, forecast cycles, and quarterly close.
  • Understand key business drivers affecting these processes and anticipate their effects on processes, deliverables, and end results as drivers change.
  • Partner with infrastructure teams to establish and manage internal cost metrics and develop comparative models across AWS, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud.
  • Lead day-to-day financial operations for Apple's third-party cloud infrastructure while partnering with Procurement, Engineering, Corporate Accounting, and other stakeholders on cost, capacity, and commercial strategy.
  • Build comparative cost-and-capability models across cloud providers to inform sourcing decisions and influence infrastructure investment.
  • Partner with engineering teams to drive efficiency through process improvement, automation, and new tooling.
  • Own the cloud vendor relationship and pursue improved cost, usage, and commitment data to increase the accuracy of cost reporting and invoicing.
Desired Qualifications
  • Strong understanding of cloud pricing, cost structures, and billing models.
  • Experience owning a multi-cloud cost management strategy, cost allocation, forecasting, budgeting, spend tracking, and variance analysis.
  • Experience establishing cloud cost governance across subscriptions/accounts/projects, resource groups, environments, products, teams, and customer segments.
  • Strong relationship building, business judgment, and process management.
  • Strong presentation and communication skills.

About the company

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, from iPhone smartphones and Mac computers to tablets and wearable devices. Its operating systems manage apps and built-in functions for communication and work, while iCloud stores files and synchronizes data across devices. Customers buy additional digital services through subscriptions such as Apple Music and Apple TV, and developers distribute software through the App Store. Apple earns money from hardware sales, subscriptions and digital transactions, selling directly to customers and through retailers and mobile carriers around the world. It was founded in 1976 and has its headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Cupertino, California

Founded

1976

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What believers are saying

  • Business demand is growing: Apple reported $109.4 billion revenue in the June 2026 quarter, up 16% year over year.
  • Eligible US employees get learning support: Apple reimburses career-related tuition and runs Apple University classes.
  • Services earn richer margins: Apple reported 75.6% services gross margin in the June 2026 quarter, versus 40.1% for products.

What critics are saying

  • Assembly depends on Asian partners: Apple outsources substantially all final hardware assembly, reducing direct control over production.
  • iPhone concentrates demand risk: the product generated 49.6% of Apple revenue in the June 2026 quarter.
  • Student support shifts take evenings: Apple College Advisors typically work three evening shifts and one weekend shift weekly.

What makes Apple unique

  • Its chips link hardware and software: Apple designs M-series processors and developer frameworks tuned to their unified memory.
  • Stores double as service hubs: Apple combines device sales, Genius Bar technical help and in-person learning sessions.
  • It owns a spatial operating system: Apple Vision Pro runs visionOS, controlled through eyes, hands and voice.

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Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k) Company Match

Tuition Reimbursement

Performance Bonus

Relocation Assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

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