[Remote] Senior Financial Analyst, R&D Finance

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Twilio is a company focused on shaping the future of communications and creating innovative solutions for businesses. They are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join their R&D Finance team, where the role involves serving as a finance partner for R&D engineering and product teams, managing complex cloud infrastructure costs, and driving strategic financial initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Act as an autonomous finance partner to R&D, Product, and Engineering leadership. Lead cross-functional conversations to determine whether infrastructure cost surges are driven by healthy customer volume growth or inefficient engineering configurations
• Partner seamlessly across Accounting, Engineering, FP&A, and FinOps teams to ensure accurate COGS/OpEx accounting classifications and product-line allocation of cloud costs, while driving upstream process automation and data integrity
• Lead the monthly and quarterly forecasting process for R&D hosting infrastructure. Build dynamic models capable of managing complex, non-linear cloud billings from major providers and LLM partners
• Conduct deep-dive variance analyses and link financial outcomes directly to usage changes driven by product/market dynamics, translating technical platform adjustments into clear financial impacts
• Proactively identify engineering cost-containment opportunities and partner with product managers to design and track cloud cost-efficiency strategies while maintaining platform performance
• Lead strategic projects, analysis, deepdives to drive ROI opportunities and costs reductions. Build flexible financial models to support scenario planning, product expansions, and support data-driven investment trade-offs
• Track and analyze vendor spend patterns, cloud capacity utilization, and budget consumption across core R&D functions
• Communicate complex financial analyses and technical cloud cost structures in clear, actionable ways to non-financial audiences and engineering stakeholders

Skills

• 5+ years of finance experience in progressive FP&A, operational finance or strategic corporate finance roles
• Detail-oriented mindset with strong analytical, problem-solving, and deep-dive capabilities to thoroughly investigate complex technical issues and evaluate massive cloud data footprints
• Expertise in leveraging Excel/Google Sheets to construct multi-variable, driver-based models, specifically for completing complex unit economics and cloud infrastructure spend analysis
• Proven ability to operate independently and thrive within highly ambiguous environments, moving beyond basic data pulling to drive strategic engineering conversations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to translate complex cloud architecture variances to non-financial product stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to drive simplification and automation of financial and business processes, modeling and reporting
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Computer Science, or a related operational field
• Direct experience managing cloud infrastructure/hosting spend within a high-growth Technology, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), or Cloud environment
• Familiarity with enterprise planning applications (Anaplan), ERP systems (Oracle), or specialized cloud cost optimization tools
• Demonstrated ability to use Gen AI tools to drive simplification and automation

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Generous time off
• Ample parental and wellness leave
• Healthcare
• A retirement savings program
• Equity plan
• Corporate bonus plan
• Health care insurance
• 401(k) retirement account
• Paid sick time
• Paid personal time off
• Paid parental leave

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