Senior Financial Analyst, R&D Finance

Role overview

Twilio is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst for R&D Finance to serve as an autonomous finance partner to R&D engineering and product teams. The role focuses exclusively on cloud infrastructure costs—primarily AWS and hosting spend—as Twilio expands its unified platform and advanced platform features.

Responsibilities

• Strategic business partnership with R&D, Product, and Engineering leadership; lead cross-functional discussions to determine whether infrastructure cost surges are driven by customer growth or inefficient engineering configurations.
• Cross-functional collaboration across Accounting, Engineering, FP&A, and FinOps to ensure correct COGS/OpEx classifications and product-line allocations of cloud costs; improve process automation and data integrity.
• Dynamic financial forecasting: own monthly and quarterly forecasting for R&D hosting infrastructure, building models for complex non-linear cloud billing.
• Operational variance analysis: run deep-dive variance analyses and connect financial outcomes to usage changes influenced by product/market dynamics.
• Cost-containment & optimization: identify engineering cost-efficiency opportunities and partner with product managers to design and track cloud cost strategies while maintaining performance.
• Financial modeling & ROI analysis: lead strategic analyses and deep-dives to uncover ROI opportunities and cost reductions; support scenario planning for product expansions and investment trade-offs.
• Infrastructure metrics tracking: monitor vendor spend patterns, cloud capacity utilization, and budget consumption across core R&D functions.
• Strategic communication: translate complex financial and cloud cost structures into clear, actionable insights for non-financial stakeholders.

Requirements

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