Senior Analyst, Infrastructure Finance

Salesforce•Atlanta, GA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Infrastructure & Security Finance & Strategy team is dedicated to the financial reporting and optimization of the Infrastructure budget. This role collaborates across multiple functions including Infrastructure Engineering leadership, Procurement, Corporate Finance, and Technology & Product (T&P) Finance & Strategy (F&S) to deliver consistently accurate financial forecasting, business insights, and process improvements. Deliverables include supporting the monthly close and budget outlook/planning processes related to the management of the operational budget. This could include but is not limited to AI token usage, royalties agreements, forecasting/analytic models, operational/process improvements, and findings packaged in presentation-ready content for executives. Additionally, this individual is expected to participate in important cross-functional, organization-wide initiatives and projects.

Requirements

3+ years of FP&A or relevant public company work experience.
Experience managing and reconciling spend to budgets.
Advanced Excel skills and modeling skills
Understanding of GAAP, SOX, and expense recognition principles.
Strong financial and operational planning skills.
Passion for process improvement and challenging the status status quo.
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) with an ability to explain complex issues in an understandable way.
Ability to work cross functionally and an ability to influence at all levels within the organization.
Intellectual curiosity, fueled by a proactive approach to continuously expand one’s skillset.
Must be results and service oriented and have a strong ability to make and communicate progress with incomplete information.

Nice To Haves

Experience with public cloud computing (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), or complex software licensing and budgeting.
Experience with systems such as Google Suite, Hyperion, Oracle, and Alteryx.
Strong data analysis skills including familiarity / experience with AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, SQL queries, Snowflake, and Tableau.

Responsibilities

Lead monthly close activities, including budget versus actuals (BvA) variance analysis, and contribute to quarterly outlooks and annual planning activities.
Build trusted relationships with key Infrastructure and Security partners, establishing trust and gaining an understanding of relevant business drivers.
Work cross-functionally with Finance & Strategy, Procurement, and T&P leadership to ensure alignment and accuracy across infrastructure spend.
Drive consistently accurate financial forecasting and reporting.
Partner with Infrastructure operational teams and Procurement to identify, track, and model cost optimization.
Enhance and develop drivers and ROI based frameworks to further support investment decision making for infrastructure projects.
Support teams in developing the annual business plan and quarterly forecast updates by providing required data trends, reports and insights for Infrastructure functions.
Assist with driving unit cost modeling to drive cost transparency, accountability, and data-driven resource allocation.
Prepare and deliver high quality, clear, tailored executive presentations and reports.
Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and successfully lead process improvement or other strategic projects.