Sr. Financial Analyst

Zapier • San Francisco, CA

1d • Remote

About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Corporate Strategic Finance team and play a key role in shaping the company’s financial strategy and operations. This role blends high-level strategic thinking with hands-on execution across core areas of corporate finance. You’ll take a holistic view of the business, help drive resource allocation decisions, support board and competitive intelligence efforts, and partner closely with our G&A teams to enable scalable, data-driven growth.
Location: This role is fully remote, and we’re excited about candidates interested in working within the North America time zones (Pacific Time - Eastern Time)

Requirements

• This isn’t your first rodeo. You have 4+ years of FP&A-specific experience,with a background in Big 4 Accounting, Investment Banking, or Management Consulting experience with meaningful ownership of operating expense areas - ideally R&D or technical cost structures.
• You understand financial modeling well. You have experience building bottoms up and high level financial models.
• You understand how modern R&D organizations operate. You can translate engineering, product, and infrastructure inputs into clear financial implications and trade-offs.
• You’re energized by owning a process from A-Z. You take initiative, thrive in ambiguity, and enjoy seeing things through from scoping and modeling to execution and follow-through.
• You’re resourceful. You love a challenge and always question the status quo. You are highly adaptive and enjoy getting creative to solve new problems.
• You love data. You are innately curious, analyze everything, look for trends, and always forever truth-seeking.
• You care about the nitty gritty. You are detail-oriented, highly organized, understand priorities, and thrive in a fast paced environment.
• You love to collaborate and coordinate. You’re comfortable driving cross-functional alignment and take pride in delivering high-quality work with minimal oversight.
• You actively experiment with AI. You think critically about where automation and AI can meaningfully improve financial analysis, forecasting, and decision support.

Nice To Haves

• Experience writing SQL is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own R&D financial planning and analysis. Lead forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis for R&D spend, including headcount, cloud infrastructure (AWS), tooling, and AI-related costs.
• Model and manage cloud & infrastructure economics. Build and maintain models that explain cloud costs, key usage drivers, unit economics, and scaling behavior; partner with technical teams to improve cost visibility and efficiency.
• Analyze and support AI investments. Evaluate and track AI-related spend (internal and vendor-based), assess ROI and trade-offs, and support decision-making as AI usage scales across the product and internal operations.
• Drive strategic insights for R&D leadership. Identify trends, risks, and optimization opportunities across R&D spend, translating complex cost drivers into clear recommendations for leadership.
• Develop scalable, decision-ready models. Build flexible models to support scenario planning, capacity planning, and long-term investment decisions tied to product growth and technical architecture.
• Support executive and board-level reporting. Prepare clear, concise materials that explain R&D performance, cloud and AI cost dynamics, and forward-looking implications for company strategy.
• Improve tools, processes, and data quality. Enhance forecasting accuracy, automate reporting where possible, and improve how R&D, cloud, and AI cost data flows into FP&A systems and decision-making.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed