Financial Analyst

Applied Materials•Santa Clara, CA

12d•Onsite

About The Position

Requires strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and extensive experience in financial and operational analysis. Applies best practices and deep understanding of business drivers to improve decision quality. Solves complex problems by taking new perspectives and developing scalable financial frameworks. Works independently with minimal guidance and serves as a thought partner and resource for colleagues with less experience.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree, MBA preferred
Typically 5–7+ years of relevant experience
Advanced Excel skills required
experience with Tableau, Power BI, or SQL strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Service product - Cross functional team leadership
Lead cross functional teams to drive process improvements, portfolio prioritization, cost focus on new products and scalable consolidated service product reporting
Key business partner to SBU heads to drive strategic process definition and collection of information for financial reviews
Define and implement finance processes, templates, and checkpoints that support evolving product development processes and strategies
Build and maintain robust cost models, economic assessments, and investment frameworks for ongoing and emerging service offerings.
Connect information from multiple sources (engineering, operations, commercial, and finance systems) to create new, scalable financial models and standards
Develop revenue, margin, and customer engagement plans, and evaluate value creation relative to required investment and associated risks
Manage investment frameworks and prioritization
Support organizational portfolio management by assessing financial performance, investment needs, and value drivers across offerings to guide balanced, strategic decision‑making
Build sustainable evaluation processes that support consistent, long‑term business planning and capability building
Lead and facilitate engagement with finance and non‑finance stakeholders
Lead working sessions to define roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and operating mechanisms for new and evolving finance processes
Drive strategic conversations, synthesize insights, and align recommendations across multiple stakeholder groups
Improve financial performance and support long‑term growth priorities
Prepare and consolidate key financial analyses, including QoQ and YoY revenue and margin performance
Identify execution opportunities, monitor progress, and help drive corrective actions where needed
Build scalable KPI dashboards, trackers and financial frameworks to help leadership prioritize the highest value opportunities and strategic initiatives
Streamline and document core finance processes