Product Finance Analyst

About the position

As a member of Snowflake's Product Finance team, you will help support our rapidly growing business through developing deep expertise around our cloud infrastructure and acting as a strategic partner in all matters cloud related. We are looking for a quick learner that is adaptable, innovative, and willing to challenge the status quo.

Responsibilities

• Help manage our Cloud Spend model. Track actuals vs forecast, and continuously iterate to improve accuracy.
• Answer detailed questions around our unit economics via SQL queries. Write queries from scratch to enable strategic decision making with insightful data.
• Identify problems and abnormalities in our infrastructure spend and quickly resolve them to minimize business impact. Provide recommendations on ways to reduce COGS/OpEx and improve margin.
• Build out tooling in Snowflake or our BI tools to manage our CSP spend, focusing on scaling our processes and reporting.
• Be an expert on the cost reporting structure and differences across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Work closely with our Accounting team on our monthly close process by providing guidance on COGS/R&D classification.
• Become a trusted business partner to our Engineering and Product Management teams on all aspects of our cloud spend.

Requirements

• 2-3 years of experience in Finance, Accounting, or Management Consulting, preferably in a SaaS business.
• Comfort working with senior stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
• Understanding of the close process and ability to juggle competing priorities.
• Experience mentoring and reviewing the work of other team members.
• Strong Excel skills, proficiency in SQL, and experience with BI tools. Python skills are a plus.
• Solid problem solving ability and experience working through ambiguity.
• Good understanding of GAAP and experience working with Accounting teams.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts in a simple manner to less technically knowledgeable colleagues.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Computer Science.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in analyzing cost and usage data from AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• FinOps certification.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Flexible spending & health savings account.
• At least 12 paid holidays.
• Paid time off.
• Parental leave.
• Employee assistance program.
• Participation in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.