As a Senior Financial Analyst, R&D at Thought Spot, you will play a critical role in driving financial strategy and operational excellence within the Product and Engineering teams. This role goes beyond traditional finance—it's about delivering forward-looking insights, enabling smarter investment decisions, and building tools that help the business operate more effectively. Success in this role requires a proactive mindset, a drive to raise the bar, and the ability to operate with urgency in a fast-paced environment.

What you'll do:

• Strategic Finance Partnering: Work closely with Product and Engineering leaders to align financial plans with operational strategies, ensuring investments drive innovation and efficiency.

• Op Ex & Budget Management: Monitor and manage R&D spending, conduct Budget vs. Actual (BvA) analysis, and provide forecasts that support agile decision-making.

• Headcount & Capacity Planning: Partner with budget owners and HR to track hiring plans, ensuring alignment with growth and product roadmaps.

• Bottoms-Up Analysis & Business Tooling: Build scalable templates and lightweight tools to bridge data gaps, translate upstream inputs into actionable insights, and support day-to-day business management.

• Building & Leveraging Adaptive Planning: Develop and enhance budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes in Adaptive Planning to improve accuracy, efficiency, and decision-making.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a bridge between R&D and company-wide FP&A, ensuring financial processes are consistent and decision-making is informed.

• Ad-Hoc Projects: Drive high-impact analyses and initiatives that support growth, efficiency, and strategic investment decisions.

What you bring:

• Experience: Typically 5+ years in finance, FP&A, or related fields, ideally within a SaaS or technology environment.

• Creative Problem-Solving & Tool Creation: Ability to translate ambiguous or incomplete data into structured analysis, building repeatable templates that enable better business execution and insight generation.

• Communication & Influence: Strong ability to engage and partner with senior stakeholders, providing compelling financial narratives.

• Bias for Action: A results-driven mindset with a passion for increasing urgency and elevating performance.

• Technical Proficiency: Strong financial modeling and forecasting skills, with experience in Adaptive Planning or similar tools.

• Attention to Detail: A commitment to accuracy, data integrity, and continuous process improvement.

At Thought Spot, you'll be part of a collaborative finance team that’s deeply embedded in driving product strategy. You'll have the opportunity to grow your career while working on meaningful challenges at the intersection of finance, data, and innovation.

Mandatory and Required Skills for All Thought Spot Roles

Spotters are expected to demonstrate AI literacy and workflow integration to include to ability to:

• Comfortably and confidently integrate artificial intelligence into their daily workflow to increase productivity and quality.

• Hands-on experience to leverage AI tools (industry-leading LLMs) to increase productivity, automate routine tasks, and improve work quality.

• Speak to the experience of using AI for research, content creation, and document summarization while maintaining ownership of judgment and final decisions.

• Write effective prompts to get the most accurate and creative results from AI tools.

Spotters are expected to exemplify these key traits and AI Mindset:

• Curiosity in exploring new AI tools

• Adaptability to quickly learn and implement new, emerging AI technologies

• Critical thinking to know when to identify when AI should be used versus when human judgement is necessary

This combination of curiosity, adaptability, and discernment defines the AI mindset, and it’s required for every role at Thought Spot.

AI Mindset for All Spotters

At Thought Spot, we believe AI is a necessary and essential part of how we work. Every role, across every team, is expected to be fluent and comfortable with using AI to do their best work.

All Spotters are expected to experiment with Thought Spot’s AI tools (like Spotter and Spotter Viz) and leading industry LLMs to streamline workflows, enhance output, and uncover new insights. Whether drafting content, analyzing data, or summarizing documents, AI is a daily partner. We value curiosity, openness to learning, and thoughtful application of AI to create real value. Training and resources are provided so every Spotter can confidently create with AI.

Hybrid Work at Thought Spot

• This office-assigned role is available as a hybrid position, reporting to the office in India
• Bangalore.
  Spotters assigned to an office are encouraged to experience the energy of their local office with an in-office expectation of 2-3 days per week. This approach balances the benefits of in-person collaboration and peer learning with the flexibility needed by individuals and teams.

Thought Spot for All

At Thought Spot, diverse teams build better products. Complex data problems need many perspectives, not just one. We welcome different backgrounds, identities, and experiences, and we work to create a place where everyone can be themselves and do their best work. If this role excites you and you believe you’re a strong match, we encourage you to apply.

What Makes Thought Spot a Great Place to Work?

Thought Spot is the Agentic Analytics Platform that empowers every enterprise to transform insights into action, on a mission to make the world more fact driven. We hire people with unique identities, backgrounds, and perspectives - this balance-for-the-better philosophy is key to our success. When paired with our culture of Trust, Customer Obsession, Innovation and Intensity, Thought Spot cultivates a respectful culture that pushes norms to create world-class products. If you’re excited by the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the business and make your mark on a truly innovative company, we invite you to read more about our mission, and apply to the role that’s right for you.

About Thought Spot

The world’s most innovative companies turn to Thought Spot’s AI-Powered Analytics to put data in the hands of everyone, from the C-suite to the frontline. With simple, natural language search and AI, anyone can ask questions, discover insights, and act with confidence. Unlike legacy tools that sacrifice performance for complexity, Thought Spot is intuitively designed for every business user while being built to handle the most complex, large-scale data, wherever it resides. This unique combination of speed and simplicity is why enterprise leaders trust Thought Spot to transform decision-making into a truly data-driven culture.

At Thought Spot, we’re a curious, data-driven bunch. We believe the world works better when everyone has access to facts. That’s why we build products that make asking and answering data questions as natural as having a conversation.