Senior Financial Analyst
ThoughtSpot
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.
Hybrid Work at ThoughtSpot
This office-assigned role is available as a hybrid position, reporting to the office in India - Bangalore.Spotters assigned to an office are encouraged to experience the energy of their local office with an in-office expectation of 2-3 days per week. This approach balances the benefits of in-person collaboration and peer learning with the flexibility needed by individuals and teams.
What makes ThoughtSpot a great place to work?
ThoughtSpot is the experience layer of the modern data stack, leading the industry with our AI-powered analytics and natural language search. We hire people with unique identities, backgrounds, and perspectives—this balance-for-the-better philosophy is key to our success. When paired with our culture of Selfless Excellence and our drive for continuous improvement (2% done), ThoughtSpot cultivates a respectful culture that pushes norms to create world-class products. If you’re excited by the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the business and make your mark on a truly innovative company, we invite you to read more about our mission, and apply to the role that’s right for you.
ThoughtSpot for All
At ThoughtSpot, diverse teams build better products. Complex data problems need many perspectives, not just one. We welcome different backgrounds, identities, and experiences, and we work to create a place where everyone can be themselves and do their best work. If this role excites you and you believe you’re a strong match, we encourage you to apply.