[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

Company Overview
• Twilio is a cloud communication company that enables users to use standard web languages to build voice, VoIP, and SMS apps via a web API. It was founded in 2008, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.twilio.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship
• Twilio has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 12 in 2026, 215 in 2025, 168 in 2024, 209 in 2023, 369 in 2022, 264 in 2021, 157 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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