Global Administrator required for Office 365 Cloud Backup???

Hello,

I'm looking into the documentation in implement the Office 365 Cloud Backup feature (link) and it says the user needs to be a Global Administrator.

This requirement seems ridiculous to me, there is no way we can make any of our finance department users a Global Administrator of our Office 365 tenant. We already looked at the other Office 365 integration features and that is even more ridiculous as it requires you to change your CSP to Sage !?!? so we of course discarded that option...

Is this really a hard requirement? is there any alternative or workaround to this?