R&D Finance Analyst

Snowflake • Menlo Park, CA

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About The Position

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. We exist to improve Engineering & Product leaders’ understanding and decision-making on how to efficiently and effectively manage Snowflake’s R&D business. Our North Star is to provide trusted partnership via sharing of reliable metrics, inferring actionable insights, catalyzing strategic investment decisions and accelerating operational efficiency across R&D and Finance. Our team operates at the intersection of strategy, finance, and R&D execution - partnering closely with Engineering & Product, Technical Program Management, Corporate Finance, Corporate Development, Human Resources, Recruiting and Snowflake’s Executive Leadership to ensure that R&D investments are efficient, effective and aligned to Snowflake’s growth priorities. This is an early-in-career role supporting the Product Finance team, offering hands-on exposure to financial planning, analysis, and business partnership with a fast-paced R&D organization. You will help maintain forecasts and analyze performance across product lines and initiatives. We are looking for someone who is detail-oriented, eager to learn and motivated to build strong business fundamentals and acumen. What You Will Do: This role will support recurring reporting, own budgeting variance analyses, and help translate data into actionable, clear insights for R&D stakeholders. You will collaborate closely with senior analysts and cross-functional partners, developing the skills to navigate ambiguity, ask thoughtful questions, and continuously improve processes. This role is ideal for a proactive self-starter with strong analytical curiosity who wants to grow into a strategic finance partner over time.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree: In Finance, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field
• 1-3 years of experience: background in Finance, Investment Banking, Consulting, Accounting
• Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for stakeholders at all levels
• Proven ability in financial modeling, forecasting, and data analysis to support strategic decision making
• Strong sense of accountability with a proactive, solutions-oriented approach to learning, improving, and driving work forward
• AI competency and familiarity - uses AI solutions as tools to automate manual, recurring processes and deliverables
• Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data.
• Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties.
• It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

Nice To Haves

• Prior cloud-based or SaaS company experience is a plus

Responsibilities

• This role will support recurring reporting
• Own budgeting variance analyses
• Help translate data into actionable, clear insights for R&D stakeholders
• Collaborate closely with senior analysts and cross-functional partners
• Developing the skills to navigate ambiguity, ask thoughtful questions, and continuously improve processes

What This Job Offers

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