Ridgeline
Senior Financial Analyst - R&D
Reno, NV; San Ramon, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$133k-$166kDetected 1 day ago
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About the role
- You'll help guide strategic investment decisions by connecting product priorities, workforce planning, cloud infrastructure, vendor spend, and technology investments to Ridgeline's financial goals.
- Ridgeliners act like owners, choose growth over comfort, and communicate with transparency.
- We assume positive intent, bias toward action, and bring solutions-not just problems.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, Security, and technology leaders to provide financial guidance that informs roadmap and resource allocation decisions
- Build and maintain financial models that translate product roadmaps, hiring plans, technology architecture, and vendor commitments into clear financial outcomes
- Evaluate strategic tradeoffs across hiring, cloud consumption, vendors, and build-versus-buy decisions while identifying financial risks and opportunities
- Develop executive-ready dashboards and reporting that improve visibility into R&D spend, workforce trends, forecast accuracy, cloud costs, and operational performance
- Prepare business cases and scenario analyses that support new products, platform investments, and strategic technology initiatives
- Partner with Engineering and Infrastructure teams to improve cloud cost allocation, tagging, unit economics, forecasting, and FinOps best practices
- Own monthly close activities including variance analysis, accrual support, reforecasting, executive communications, and budget-to-actual reporting
- Collaborate with Accounting to support purchase commitments, vendor management, accruals, prepaids, and internal-use software capitalization
- Maintain reliable workforce and operating expense forecasts by reconciling planning, ERP, HRIS, procurement, and project data
- Ability to analyze large, complex data sets, reconcile inconsistencies, and develop clear, actionable recommendations
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with planning, ERP, HRIS, procurement, BI, cloud billing, and AI-enabled analytics platforms such as Adaptive Planning, Workday, NetSuite, Coupa, AWS Cost Explorer, Looker, Tableau, or similar systems
Compensation
- The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below.
- The typical starting salary range for this role in the
- Final compensation amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amount listed above.
- In addition to the base salary, Ridgeline employees can participate in our Company Stock Plan subject to the applicable Stock Option Agreement.
- $133,000 - $166,000.
- $146,000 - $182,000.
- Lead R&D budgeting, forecasting, annual planning, and long-range planning across headcount, contractors, cloud infrastructure, software, AI, and vendor investments
Benefits
- These include unlimited vacation, educational and wellness reimbursements, and $0 cost employee insurance plans.
- Please check out our Careers page for a more comprehensive overview of our perks and benefits.
- Continuous learning mindset with enthusiasm for improving processes, adopting new technologies, and helping build scalable finance operations
Company info
- Founded by visionary entrepreneur Dave Duffield (co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday), the company was created to modernize an industry held back by outdated, disconnected technology.
Visa & Work Authorization
- You must be work authorized in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.
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