
Senior Financial Analyst – R&D, Customer Success
Tempo Software
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Own the R&D financial model (headcount, capacity, investment prioritization)
- Build and/or orchestrate planning cycles (annual plan, reforecasts, weekly flash) across R&D and Customer
- Partner with the CCO on Customer Success and Support forecasting, capacity, and performance
- Deliver insights on core SaaS metrics (retention, churn, expansion, cost-to-serve, support efficiency)
- Inform topline assumptions based on customer behavior, product usage, and operational drivers
- Support quarterly business reviews and development of board-level materials
- Partner with Cloud Operations to forecast and manage cloud and AI costs
- Drive visibility into cost drivers and identify efficiency opportunities
- Build and/or orchestrate business cases, scenarios, and sensitivity analyses
- Act as a strategic thought partner to R&D and Customer leadership on resource allocation and ROI
- Design, build, and orchestrate AI-driven workflows across forecasting, reporting, and variance analysis
- Translate finance processes into structured, modular workflows for agent execution
- Orchestrate multi-step, agent-driven processes across interconnected workflows
- Act as human-in-the-loop owner (output validation, exception handling, continuous improvement)
- Replace manual processes with orchestrated agent workflows to scale output without linear headcount
- Integrate data pipelines with AI and orchestration layers (Finance Systems, BI, RevOps, Accounting, HR, etc.)
- Continuously improve workflows through prompt refinement and orchestration optimization
- Partner with Accounting to ensure accurate expense classification and allocations during close
- Align financial data with operational drivers (headcount, cloud usage, vendor spend)
- Build and/or orchestrate accruals, reclasses, and variance explanations
- Establish and enforce data governance and documentation standards across systems
- Ensure data structures are clean, consistent, and automation-ready for AI workflows
- Identify and resolve data issues impacting forecasting, reporting, or automation accuracy
- Deliver monthly reporting, variance analysis, and performance insights
- Support weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial cadences (flash, forecast, close)
- Support quarterly business reviews and board deck materials
- Partner with BI/RevOps to improve data quality and reporting automation
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis and insight generation
Requirements
- 4–8+ years in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or Strategic Finance
- Experience supporting Product, Engineering, R&D, Customer Success, or Support
- Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and scenario analysis skills
- Experience with planning systems (e.g., Drivetrain, Hyperion, SAP, Anaplan, Adaptive)
- Strong understanding of SaaS metrics (retention, churn, cost-to-serve)
- Experience partnering with Accounting (accruals, expense classification, P&L integrity)
- Experience using AI tools to automate analysis or improve workflows
- Ability to operate across execution and orchestration of work
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
Benefits
- Remote First work environment
- Unlimited vacation in most of our locations!!
- Great benefits including health, dental, vision and savings plan.
- Perks such as training reimbursement, WFH reimbursement, and more.
- Diverse and dynamic teams with challenging and exciting work.
- An opportunity to have a real impact on our business.
- A great range of social activities (both in person and virtual).
- Optional in person meet-ups and the ability to travel to our international offices
- Employee referral program
- And so much more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
financial modelingforecastingscenario analysisdata governancevariance analysisaccrualsexpense classificationreporting automationAI-driven workflowscost analysis
Soft Skills
communicationinfluencingstrategic thinkingcollaborationproblem-solvingcontinuous improvementcross-functional partnershiporganizational skillsanalytical thinkingleadership