Senior Financial Analyst- R&D FP&A (FinOps & Product) - West

Smartsheet is growing its outstanding Finance team to help achieve our operational and financial goals while embodying our values. The Finance team connects the dots between Smartsheet's operational and business strategies to shape financial performance.

We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team. In this role, you won't just "track spend" - you will act as a strategic financial operations (FinOps) partner to our Engineering and Product organizations. You’ll help bridge the gap between technical roadmaps and financial outcomes, ensuring our product innovation - from core platform features to AI-driven capabilities is built on a foundation of unit-economic efficiency.

This role will serve as the primary finance architect for our cloud infrastructure and R&D operations. You will partner with senior leaders in Engineering and Product Management to navigate the complexities of multi-cloud environments and high-growth scaling.

This role will report to our Senior Manager of FP&A located in our Bellevue, WA office. This role is remote eligible; however, we have a preference for candidates located in the Western United States. The selected candidate may be expected to travel to the office periodically based on business needs.

You Will:

• Strategic Forecasting: Own the end-to-end rolling forecast for R&D, focusing specifically on cloud consumption, AI/ML inference costs, and headcount scaling
• Actively engage in the annual planning, quarterly forecasts and variance cycles
• Drive Infrastructure FinOps Excellence: Act as a core member of the FinOps practice, translating complex AWS/Azure/GCP usage data into actionable business insights
• Optimize Unit Economics: Partner with Engineering to define and track Cost per User or Consumptions based cost, identifying opportunities to improve gross margins through architectural efficiency
• Infrastructure Partnership: Lead monthly "Cloud Reviews" with Engineering VPs to analyze usage trends, Reserved Instance (RI) / Savings Plan coverage & waste reduction
• New Product Financial Underwriting: Build models to evaluate the ROI & margin impact of new features (e.g., AI) ensuring our innovation in automation remains profitable
• Month-End & Compliance: Manage month-end close for R&D, ensuring accrual accuracy and providing high-level variance analysis to the CFO organization
• Articulate findings into high-quality communications  and support the execution of recommendations with internal and external partners.
• Process Automation: Leverage AI & BI tools and FP&A platforms to automate manual reporting, moving the team toward real-time financial visibility.
• Engage in ad-hoc analysis to drive business decisions and support business partner procurement needs
• Other duties as assigned

You Have:

• 5+ years of progressive experience and demonstrated growth in Finance/FP&A positions
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting or economics preferred 
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills with the ability to facilitate discussions with leaders
• Analytical mindset and proficiency in building complex financial models
• Direct experience with cloud-native cost management tools (e.g., CloudHealth, Apptio Cloudability, or AWS Cost Explorer) is a plus
• A plus if you speak the language of "Cloud." You understand the difference between compute, storage, and data transfer, and how they impact the P&L
• Willingness and ability to travel to the Bellevue location as business needs require
• A service-focused, customer orientation toward colleagues throughout the company
• A strong curiosity and passion for using data and business acumen to answer questions and solve problems