Strategic Finance Analyst II

About the role

This role is designed for an AI-native thinker who is energized by the opportunity to reinvent how work gets done at Snowflake. You will treat AI as a high-trust collaborator, using it to accelerate impact while maintaining a low-ego, experimental approach in dynamic environments. The hire will own strategic finance initiatives that directly influence how the business scales profitably across product, engineering, and sales organizations. You will navigate ambiguity and drive workstreams independently, turning complex data into decisive action for executive stakeholders. This position is not just about executing tasks but redefining the future of business partnering and decision-making. You will possess innate curiosity to test emerging capabilities and uncover simpler, more powerful solutions.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Develop and maintain financial models that track revenue and cost drivers to enable accurate forecasting and real-time visibility into workload contribution margins.
• Drive revenue and margin insights by analyzing historical and forward-looking trends to provide actionable recommendations on pricing, packaging, and go-to-market strategies.
• Partner with product managers and sales to evaluate new product features or market opportunities, supporting business case development with data-driven insights.
• Communicate complex technical or financial concepts in a succinct, easy-to-understand manner to stakeholders at all levels across the organization.
• Use SQL to find the "why" behind the numbers by mastering complex data structures and business drivers to deliver timely and accurate insights.
• Leverage Snowflake Intelligence and AISQL daily to automate manual reporting and speed up insight discovery, streamlining complex workflows.
• Build scalable reporting and tooling that translates data findings into automated, high-visibility dashboards for product and finance leaders.
• Optimize cloud spend and infrastructure by identifying and resolving abnormalities to maintain healthy margins and reduce COGS/OpEx.
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, and Sales to synthesize inputs and ensure alignment on strategic financial decisions.
• Act as an objective, full-stack business partner responsible for increasing workload contribution margin dollars above the current forecast.
• Translate strategic finance analysis into operational plans that accelerate decision-making and improve profitability across the business.
• Proactively identify risks, opportunities, and anomalies in financial performance, then coordinate with stakeholders to implement corrective actions.

Requirements

• Hold a Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Bring 2-5 years of experience in Finance, Investment Banking, Consulting, or Data Analytics.
• Demonstrate strong financial and analytical skills, including the ability to build financial models and analyze qualitative and quantitative data.
• Show capability to juggle competing priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while maintaining attention to detail.
• Possess a high aptitude for navigating technical systems and data structures, with comfort using complex schemas and tables.
• Have experience analyzing revenue, COGS, and margin trends in SaaS, Cloud, Data, or Fintech environments.
• Prefer familiarity with Salesforce or other GTM systems for reasoning about historical and forward-looking trends.
• Exhibit ownership and problem-solving mindset by working through ambiguity and taking initiative to push projects forward.
• Communicate exceptionally well both verbally and in writing to influence stakeholders across seniority levels.
• Be comfortable working autonomously while aligning with Snowflake's mission to enable the era of the agentic enterprise.
• Thrive in environments that require rapid testing of emerging capabilities to discover innovative solutions.
• Maintain a bias for action, ensuring that insights lead to measurable impact on profitability and growth.

Nice to have

• Prior experience partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Sales teams to drive business outcomes.
• Background in leveraging AI and automation tools to enhance financial analysis and reporting processes.
• Familiarity with business intelligence platforms and dashboarding best practices.
• Understanding of cost optimization strategies specific to cloud infrastructure and operations.

Practical notes

This role operates in Bellevue, Washington, which may require adherence to standard work hour expectations. Travel requirements, visa sponsorship considerations, and specific application deadlines are not detailed in the provided source material and should be directed to Snowflake's recruitment team.