Principal Financial Analyst
Serves as the Finance Business Partner for Altana’s Technology organization, overseeing forecasting, cloud and AI spend, procurement, vendor management, and executive reporting. Requires 5–8+ years of technology FP&A or finance partnering experience, strong modeling skills, and a bachelor’s degree.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own monthly budget forecasts, business metrics, and variance reporting for the Technology organization.
- Advise Technology leaders on investment decisions through driver-based modeling, headcount evaluation, and budget alignment analysis.
- Manage cloud infrastructure finances, including spend forecasting, resource tagging, cost attribution, and commitment discount strategies.
- Build financial frameworks for AI and LLM spending, including token-level unit economics, team and product cost attribution, and efficiency reporting.
- Translate cloud and AI infrastructure actuals into GAAP-compliant accounting entries in partnership with Accounting and Cloud Engineering.
- Lead Technology procurement and vendor management, including contract inventories, renewal calendars, cloud and SaaS negotiations, and SaaS rationalization.
- Build Board-level Technology scorecards covering headcount, cloud and AI spend, R&D as a percentage of revenue, and delivery indicators.
- Develop pod-based financial views for engineering ROI analysis and report engineering organization ratios.
- Prepare executive financial narratives for board presentations, investor materials, and quarterly business reviews.
Requirements
- 5–8+ years of progressive FP&A or finance business partnering experience at a high-growth technology or SaaS company.
- Direct experience supporting R&D, Engineering, or Product organizations.
- Strong financial modeling skills in Excel and at least one EPM or planning platform.
- Excellent communication, influencing, executive storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
- Active use of AI tools for modeling, analysis, automation, or productivity.
- Familiarity with ERP, CRM, and HRIS or workforce planning tools.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience at an AI company.
- SQL proficiency for independently querying and analyzing data warehouse information.
- MBA.
Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary: $170,000–$200,000 USD.
- Competitive equity grants are included in most full-time offers.
- Discretionary bonus or variable compensation plan, depending on the role.
- Flexible time off, paid parental leave, medical, vision, dental, HSA, FSA, life and disability insurance, 401(k), commuter benefits, wellness benefits, pet insurance, employee assistance program, and dependent care FSA.
Skills
FP&A, Financial Modeling, Excel, Epm, SQL, Cloud Infrastructure, AI, LLMs, US GAAP, Procurement, Vendor Management, ERP, CRM, HRIS, Workforce Planning
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