Product Finance Analyst

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · CA-Menlo Park, United States · Finance

Product Finance Analyst at Snowflake, focusing on cloud and AI unit economics. The role involves managing cloud spend, analyzing AI cost drivers (token economics, inference costs), identifying cost-saving opportunities, building internal tooling for spend management, and partnering with Engineering and Product teams. The analyst is expected to be an early adopter of AI in their own workflows and understand the economics of AI workloads across different cloud providers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Along with 5 other team members, help manage cloud economics for Snowflake. Track actuals vs. forecast, dig into variances, and continuously iterate to improve accuracy.
  2. Answer detailed questions around our cloud and AI unit economics (CPC, CPTB, token economics, inference costs). You will enable critical strategic decision making with insightful data and analysis.
  3. Identify problems and abnormalities in our infrastructure and AI spend and work to resolve them to minimize business impact. Provide recommendations on ways we can reduce COGS/OpEx and improve margin.
  4. Build out tooling in Snowflake, Streamlit, or our BI tools to manage CSP and AI spend. You're focused on scaling our processes and reporting as we grow into a $10bn business. At Snowflake, we pride ourselves on developing our internal tooling vs. relying on 3rd parties for analytics.
  5. Be a strong adopter of AI in your own workflows. Use LLMs, Cortex, or similar tools to work faster, and you're excited to push how Finance uses AI day-to-day.

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • Excel
  • GAAP
  • problem solving
  • business intuition
  • analytical field experience

Nice to have

  • Python
  • BI tool experience
  • SaaS business experience
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • FinOps certification

What the JD emphasized

  • critical strategic decision making
  • critical to success