Senior Strategic & Financial Planning Analyst (Sr. S&FPA)

d-Matrix has fundamentally changed the physics of memory-compute integration with our digital in-memory compute (DIMC) engine. The “holy grail” of AI compute has been to break through the memory wall to minimize data movements. We’ve achieved this with a first-of-its-kind DIMC engine. Having secured over $154M, $110M in our Series B offering, d-Matrix is poised to advance Large Language Models to scale Generative inference acceleration with our chiplets and In-Memory compute approach. We are on track to deliver our first commercial product in 2024. We are poised to meet the energy and performance demands of these Large Language Models. The company has 100+ employees across Silicon Valley, Sydney and Bengaluru.

Our pedigree comes from companies like Microsoft, Broadcom, Inphi, Intel, Texas Instruments, Lucent, MIPS and Wave Computing. Our past successes include building chips for all the cloud hyperscalers globally - Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Alibaba, Tencent along with enterprise and mobile operators like China Mobile, Cisco, Nokia, Ciena, Reliance Jio, Verizon, AT&AT. We are recognized leaders in the mixed signal, DSP connectivity space, now applying our skills to next generation AI.  

Location:

Hybrid, working onsite at our Santa Clara, Ca Headquarters 3 days per week.

The role: Senior Strategic & Financial Planning Analyst (Sr. S&FPA)

What you will do:

The Senior Strategic & Financial Planning Analyst (Sr. S&FPA) is responsible for the overall planning, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of the Company's financial performance. This involves developing and managing strategic & financial analysis procedures, identifying and prioritizing recommended actions. In addition, the role conducts financial analysis, modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting efforts to ensure efficient financial operations. The Sr. S&FPA will prepare and maintain metric-driven financial models to forecast and evaluate Company profitability and perform additional analysis as requested.

• Interact proactively and collaboratively with executive leadership teams regularly.

• Not afraid to take risks, challenge viewpoints, and bring a strong, respectful point of view to discussions based on domain knowledge and experience.

• Ability to balance a hard-nosed approach to spend controls with building long-term stakeholder relationships.

• Manage annual planning and budgeting process Company-wide.

• Continuously develop tools/systems and automate processes; manage the implementation of a budgeting and forecasting solution to streamline the forecasting and budgeting processes and provide enhanced reporting functionality.

• Build clear, accurate, and reliable predictive forecast modeling for multiple functional areas.

• Build strong financial models for the business, utilizing the understanding of financial reporting and cash flow information.

• Review historical data, predict future results, analyze and explain budget variances.

• Review analysis results, develop insightful suggestions for investment, sourcing, and cost reduction, and lead strategic business decisions.

• Review operations for cost-savings opportunities and work cross-functionally to incorporate these initiatives.

• Identify key data sources and utilize data-driven insights about important departmental metrics to improve business decisions.

• Coordinate, prepare, and analyze monthly, quarterly and annual rolling forecasts and prepare reporting on actuals vs. budgeted results, including additional ad-hoc analysis of results.

• Establish budget and operating benchmarks, to assist in preparing monthly/annual forecasts.

• Perform quantitative analysis required for strategic planning, special projects, and reports for management and communicate results to the management team.

• Drive and participate actively in monthly close activities to enable timely closes; maintain close calendar and drive optimization to minimize close periods.

• Protect the organization's value by keeping information confidential.

• Prepare other reports and participate in other special projects as requested.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Engineering required.

• A minimum of 10 years of professional experience required.

• Prior experience working within the FP&A function in a startup environment.

• Exceptional analytical, quantitative, and statistical skills.

• Proficient knowledge of US GAAP, FASB ASC.

• Advanced qu