Financial Analyst, Cloud Infrastructure FP&A

LiveRamp • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

LiveRamp is the data collaboration platform of choice for the world’s most innovative companies. A groundbreaking leader in consumer privacy, data ethics, and foundational identity, LiveRamp is setting the new standard for building a connected customer view with unmatched clarity and context while protecting precious brand and consumer trust. LiveRamp offers complete flexibility to collaborate wherever data lives to support the widest range of data collaboration use cases—within organizations, between brands, and across its premier global network of top-quality partners. Hundreds of global innovators, from iconic consumer brands and tech giants to banks, retailers, and healthcare leaders turn to LiveRamp to build enduring brand and business value by deepening customer engagement and loyalty, activating new partnerships, and maximizing the value of their first-party data while staying on the forefront of rapidly evolving compliance and privacy requirements.
As a Financial Analyst in the San Francisco office, you will support a high-energy, high growth company. Reporting to the Senior Manager FP&A, you will help continue the team on its path towards becoming a world-class organization through data automation and insightful analysis. You will support projects related to forecasting and analysis of cloud-based infrastructure (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure), including automating data access in the primary reporting tools, OneStream and Tableau. This role will work closely with Engineering and Cloud FinOps team leaders across the company, and alongside the FP&A team to aid in effective data-driven analysis and decision making. Along with performing additional ad-hoc projects for various company initiatives, the Financial Analyst will drive constant process improvement.

Requirements

• Self-starter with a natural sense of curiosity
• College degree (preferably in Finance or Economics)
• 1-2 years of related work experience
• General knowledge of Cloud Environments (GCP, AWS, Azure) and how they charge for their services
• Familiarity with Cloud FinOps cost optimization strategies
• Superior quantitative and analytical abilities
• Demonstrated excellence translating datasets into actionable results
• Demonstrated communication skills with finance and non-finance leaders

Nice To Haves

• Interest in R&D finance and project-based forecasting and planning
• Experience in a SaaS-based company
• Direct experience with automated reporting solutions (Tableau, Looker, PowerBI, etc.)
• Background in FP&A, Consulting, and/or investment banking a plus

Responsibilities

• Drive financial forecast model updates and trend analyses for our cloud infrastructure and hosting-related expenses
• Through data, work with Engineering and Cloud FinOps teams to analyze cloud spend and identify areas of opportunity to improve results, to develop monthly and quarterly financial forecasts, and to understand their to-date results to help tell the right story
• Report, track, and support key operating and financial metrics, and to help investigate and resolve anomalies in volume and spend in a timely manner
• Perform analysis on key company growth and optimization initiatives to drive decision making
• Provide a source of insightful ad-hoc business analytical support
• Develop activity-based models to forecast cloud cost and the implication on product and customer profitability
• Help define the metrics that LiveRamp will run on

Benefits

• People: Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.
• Fun: We host in-person and virtual events such as game nights, happy hours, camping trips, and sports leagues.
• Work/Life Harmony: Flexible paid time off, paid holidays, options for working from home, and paid parental leave.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package: LiveRamp offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you be your best self in your personal and professional lives. Our benefits package offers medical, dental, vision, life and disability, an employee assistance program, voluntary benefits as well as perks programs for your healthy lifestyle, career growth and more.
• Savings: Our 401K matching plan—1:1 match up to 6% of salary—helps you plan ahead.
• Also Employee Stock Purchase Plan - 15% discount off purchase price of LiveRamp stock (U.S. LiveRampers)
• RampRemote: A comprehensive office equipment and ergonomics program—we provide you with equipment and tools to be your most productive self, no matter where you're located

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level