Senior Financial Analyst - Hosting
Mode Analytics
Accounting & Finance, IT
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Mar 6, 2026
As a Senior Financial Analyst, R&D (Cloud Cost Focus) at ThoughtSpot, you will play a critical role in driving financial strategy and operational excellence within the Product and Engineering teams, with a specific focus on cloud cost management and optimization. This role goes beyond traditional finance—it's about delivering forward-looking insights on cloud spend, enabling smarter investment decisions, and building tools that help the business operate more efficiently in a cloud-first environment. 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, cloud-centric environment.
What You'll Do
Mandatory And Required Skills For All ThoughtSpot Roles
Spotters are expected to demonstrate AI literacy and workflow integration to include to ability to:
AI Mindset for All Spotters
At ThoughtSpot, 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 ThoughtSpot’s AI tools (like Spotter and SpotterViz) 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 ThoughtSpot
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.
ThoughtSpot for All
At ThoughtSpot, 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 ThoughtSpot a Great Place to Work?
ThoughtSpot 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, ThoughtSpot 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 ThoughtSpot
The world’s most innovative companies turn to ThoughtSpot’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, ThoughtSpot 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 ThoughtSpot to transform decision-making into a truly data-driven culture.
At ThoughtSpot, 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.
What You'll Do
- Cloud Cost Analysis & Optimization: Partner with Product and Engineering to monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud infrastructure costs (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, GCP). Identify cost drivers, forecast cloud spend, and recommend actions to improve cost efficiency.
- Strategic Finance Partnering: Align financial plans with operational strategies, ensuring cloud investments drive innovation and efficiency.
- OpEx & Budget Management: Track and manage R&D and cloud-related spending, conduct Budget vs. Actual (BvA) analysis, and provide forecasts that support agile decision-making.
- Business Tooling for Cloud Spend: Build scalable templates and tools to bridge data gaps, translate cloud usage data into actionable insights, and support day-to-day business management.
- Adaptive Planning: Enhance budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes in Adaptive Planning, with a focus on integrating cloud cost data for improved accuracy and decision-making.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a bridge between R&D, Cloud Engineering, and company-wide FP&A, ensuring financial processes are consistent and cloud cost decisions are informed.
- Ad-Hoc Projects: Lead high-impact analyses and initiatives related to cloud migration, total cost of ownership, and strategic investment decisions in cloud technologies.
- Experience: 5+ years in finance, FP&A, or related fields, with direct experience in cloud cost analysis, cloud financial management, or FinOps in a SaaS or technology environment.
- Cloud Cost Management: Deep understanding of cloud pricing models, cost drivers, and optimization strategies for major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.).
- Creative Problem-Solving & Tool Creation: Ability to translate ambiguous or incomplete cloud usage data into structured analysis, building repeatable templates for cloud cost management.
- Communication & Influence: Strong ability to engage and partner with senior stakeholders, providing compelling financial narratives around cloud investments.
- Bias for Action: Results-driven mindset with a passion for increasing urgency and elevating performance in cloud cost management.
- Technical Proficiency: Strong financial modeling and forecasting skills, with experience in Adaptive Planning or similar tools, and familiarity with cloud cost management platforms.
- Attention to Detail: Commitment to accuracy, data integrity, and continuous process improvement, especially in cloud cost reporting.
Mandatory And Required Skills For All ThoughtSpot 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.
- 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
AI Mindset for All Spotters
At ThoughtSpot, 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 ThoughtSpot’s AI tools (like Spotter and SpotterViz) 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 ThoughtSpot
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.
ThoughtSpot for All
At ThoughtSpot, 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 ThoughtSpot a Great Place to Work?
ThoughtSpot 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, ThoughtSpot 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 ThoughtSpot
The world’s most innovative companies turn to ThoughtSpot’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, ThoughtSpot 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 ThoughtSpot to transform decision-making into a truly data-driven culture.
At ThoughtSpot, 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.