Senior Financial Analyst - R&D
Core
Senior Financial Analyst serving as a business partner to R&D, Product, and Engineering teams to guide strategic investment decisions, manage budgets, and optimize cloud infrastructure spend.
Role type
Senior IC financial analyst (R&D/Technology)
Builds
Financial models, executive dashboards, and strategic business cases for R&D investments and cloud operations.
Domain
SaaS / Cloud Infrastructure / Technology Finance
Deliverable
production ML models | dashboards & analysis | client delivery
Required skills
Financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, business partnership, FinOps principles, cloud cost management, data analysis, AI tool utilization, financial controls
Preferred skills
SaaS/Cloud industry experience, headcount planning, vendor management, software capitalization, BI tool development
Technologies
Adaptive Planning, Workday, NetSuite, Coupa, AWS Cost Explorer, Looker, Tableau
Responsibilities
Lead R&D budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning; Build financial models translating roadmaps into outcomes; Develop executive-ready dashboards for R&D spend visibility; Partner with Engineering to improve cloud cost allocation and FinOps; Own monthly close activities and variance analysis; Prepare business cases for new products and platform investments.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
