Senior Financial Analyst

As a Senior Financial Analyst, R&D at ThoughtSpot, you will play a critical role in driving financial strategy and operational excellence within the Product and Engineering teams. This role goes beyond traditional finance—it's about delivering forward-looking insights, enabling smarter investment decisions, and building tools that help the business operate more effectively. Success in this role requires a proactive mindset, a drive to raise the bar, and the ability to operate with urgency in a fast-paced environment. What you'll do: Strategic Finance Partnering: Work closely with Product and Engineering leaders to align financial plans with operational strategies, ensuring investments drive innovation and efficiency. OpEx & Budget Management: Monitor and manage R&D spending, conduct Budget vs. Actual (BvA) analysis, and provide forecasts that support agile decision-making. Headcount & Capacity Planning: Partner with budget owners and HR to track hiring plans, ensuring alignment with growth and product roadmaps. Bottoms-Up Analysis & Business Tooling: Build scalable templates and lightweight tools to bridge data gaps, translate upstream inputs into actionable insights, and support day-to-day business management. Building & Leveraging Adaptive Planning: Develop and enhance budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes in Adaptive Planning to improve accuracy, efficiency, and decision-making. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a bridge between R&D and company-wide FP&A, ensuring financial processes are consistent and decision-making is informed. Ad-Hoc Projects: Drive high-impact analyses and initiatives that support growth, efficiency, and strategic investment decisions. What you bring: Experience: Typically 5+ years in finance, FP&A, or related fields, ideally within a SaaS or technology environment. Creative Problem-Solving & Tool Creation: Ability to translate ambiguous or incomplete data into structured analysis, building repeatable templates that enable better business execution and insight generation. Communication & Influence: Strong ability to engage and partner with senior stakeholders, providing compelling financial narratives. Bias for Action: A results-driven mindset with a passion for increasing urgency and elevating performance. Technical Proficiency: Strong financial modeling and forecasting skills, with experience in Adaptive Planning or similar tools. Attention to Detail: A commitment to accuracy, data integrity, and continuous process improvement. At ThoughtSpot, you'll be part of a collaborative finance team that’s deeply embedded in driving product strategy. You'll have the opportunity to grow your career while working on meaningful challenges at the intersection of finance, data, and innovation. Mandatory and Required Skills for All ThoughtSpot Roles Spotters are expected to demonstrate AI literacy and workflow integration to include to ability to: Comfortably and confidently integrate artificial intelligence into their daily workflow to increase productivity and quality. Hands-on experience to leverage AI tools (industry-leading LLMs) to increase productivity, automate routine tasks, and improve work quality. Speak to the experience of using AI for research, content creation, and document summarization while maintaining ownership of judgment and final decisions. Write effective prompts to get the most accurate and creative results from AI tools. Spotters are expected to exemplify these key traits and AI Mindset: Curiosity in exploring new AI tools Adaptability to quickly learn and implement new, emerging AI technologies Critical thinking to know when to identify when AI should be used versus when human judgement is necessary This combination of curiosity, adaptability, and discernment defines the AI mindset, and it’s required for every role at ThoughtSpot. AI Mindset for All Spotters At ThoughtSpot, we believe AI is a necessary and essential part of how we work. Every role, across every team, is expec ... (truncated, view full listing at source)