Senior Financial Analyst, Smartsheet
R&D FP&A, Financial Operations & Product
$92.5-126.3k
+ Incentive
Dynamic workspace platform for collaboration
Be an early applicant
Dynamic workspace platform for collaboration
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$92.5-126.3k
+ Incentive
1001+ employees
Company mission
to empower anyone to drive meaningful change — for themselves, their businesses, and the world.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
With teams increasingly moving to remote work across many industries, companies have been reaching for tools to keep operations smooth and communications open. Founded in 2005, Smartsheet is a cloud-based work management platform helping a vast range of companies, from small businesses to large enterprises, plan, track, and report on work.
Like other team collaboration software companies, such as Lucid and Atlassian, Smartsheet saw strong growth in the early 2020s and achieved 17% year-on-year revenue increases through 2025. If the company can maintain this success, it stands to make real gains in a global team collaboration market expected to be worth about $20 billion by 2028.
Smartsheet has embedded itself across various industries, with deep integrations with applications from the likes of Salesforce, Atlassian, Google, and Microsoft, making it the first work management sector Unicorn to reach $1 billion in recurring annual revenue in 2024. Thanks to its successes, it was bought by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners for $8.4 billion in 2025 with an eye on further international scaling, leveraging the reach of its new parent companies.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2017
$61.3m
SERIES F
May 2014
$35m
SERIES E
Total funding: $128.7m
Company benefits
- Lucrative Employee Stock Purchase Program (15% discount)
- 401k Match to help you save for your future (50% of your contribution up to the first 6% of your eligible pay)
- Monthly stipend to support your work and productivity
- Flexible Time Away Program, plus Incidental Sick Leave
- Up to 24 weeks of Parental Leave
- Personal paid Volunteer Day to support our community
- Opportunities for professional growth and development including access to LinkedIn Learning online courses
- Company Funded Perks, including a counseling membership, primary care membership, local retail discounts, and your own personal Smartsheet account
- Teleworking options from any registered location (role specific)
- HSA, 100% employer-paid premiums, or Buy-up medical/vision and dental coverage options for full-time employees
- Equity - Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) with all offers
- US employees are automatically covered under Smartsheet-sponsored life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability plans
- US employees receive 12 paid holidays per year
Company HQ
West Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
Leadership
Mark Mader
(President & CEO)Having studied at Dartmouth, Mark spent 2 years as a Greenwich Associates Research Associate before 10 years at Onyx Software. They then founded Smartsheet in 2005 as CEO.
Brent Frei
(Founder & Board Member)Brent worked at Motorola and Microsoft for 4 years before founding Onyx Software in 1994 and Smartsheet in 2005. They have been a Board Member since, alongside working as CEO of TerraClear.
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