Principal FP&A Analyst

The era of pervasive AI has arrived.  In this era, organizations will use generative AI to unlock hidden value in their data, accelerate processes, reduce costs, drive efficiency and innovation to fundamentally transform their businesses and operations at scale.

SambaNova Suite™ is the first full-stack, generative AI platform, from chip to model, optimized for enterprise and government organizations. Powered by the intelligent SN40L chip, the SambaNova Suite is a fully integrated platform, delivered on-premises or in the cloud, combined with state-of-the-art open-source models that can be easily and securely fine-tuned using customer data for greater accuracy. Once adapted with customer data, customers retain model ownership in perpetuity, so they can turn generative AI into one of their most valuable assets.

SambaNova Systems is hiring an exceptionally driven Principal FP&A Analyst to join our growing team. What’s needed in this role is a passion for everything FP&A and the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced and feedback-driven environment. We’re also looking for someone who is highly self-motivated, has a stellar work ethic, and is excited for the right company to support their career growth. If this sounds like a good opportunity, we’d love to meet you!

This position will be based in Palo Alto and offers a fantastic opportunity to work in a fast-paced high-performance environment at SambaNova Systems, a leader in AI computing. We are a small team encompassing FP&A and strategic finance provides for significant responsibilities; this position offers meaningful exposure to senior executives, including the VP Finance and CEO. You will have the opportunity to work with cross functional teams and will provide recommendations & information that will assist senior executives in making critical strategic decisions.

This position partners with stakeholders across the company including engineering, business development and marketing groups to deliver planning, analytics and operational finance support at all decision levels.

The FP&A Analyst for SambaNova Systems and will play an instrumental role in our route to IPO, as we scale and expand internationally and bring ‘AI to Everyone’. This is a tremendous opportunity for someone that wants to excel, develop and be part of the continuing success of a high performing team. We are a talent first organization.

Responsibilities:

• Drive an efficient, effective and comprehensive process for developing annual and quarterly financial plans and analysis that link to the Company’s strategic objectives
• Create and maintain a detailed financial model that links corporate objectives with detailed cost drivers and can be used to provide scenarios to leadership
• Responsible for monthly reporting package that includes financial operating statements, analysis of operating results against budget, prior periods and forecasts, and comprehensive executive level explanations
• Develop, deliver, and maintain insightful reporting for all department VP’s providing explanations of actual to budget and prior year and costs of certain projects and products
• Develop, analyze, and interpret financial and operating results and information; improve forecast accuracy and visibility
• Serve as key business partner and contributor to growth strategies, tactics, mid and long-range planning
• Support the financial evaluation and implications of potential new products, operating models, contracts, marketing programs and technology solutions
• Perform ad-hoc projects and financial analysis and presentations for dept VP’s and BOD
• Provide data-driven insights to facilitate decision making and influence strategy with financial model building, reporting, process flow, and dashboard development
• Facilitate deal negotiations with vendors and partners, including financial analysis
• Provide broad financial support to operational leaders, including preparation of budgets and forecasts, internal management reporting and dashboards, and ad-hoc of financial analysis
• Work closely with business leaders to report, manage and control operating results, identifying areas of both growth potential, and cost efficiency
• Assist with accounting close process and working with rest of A&F Team
• Partner with cross functional teams across SambaNova Systems organizations and develop strong collaborative relationship with key stakeholders across the company
• Work closely with VP Finance on defining the annual business planning process. Identify and manage tools for budget execution, forecast and reporting
• Present, analyze, and interpret relevant financial data and business metrics partnering closely with business leaders to impact strategic business decisions including analysis on optimizing pricing, managing co