Senior Analyst/ Staff Analyst, Finance Analytics & AI

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Menlo Park, CA, USA
In-Office
138K-181K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Cloud • Machine Learning • Software • Database • Analytics
Let's build a world where data and AI turn possibilities into reality.
The Role
The role involves designing AI agent workflows for finance, developing data models and dashboards, and automating finance reporting. Strong Python and SQL skills are essential, along with experience in AI coding tools.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

We are an AI-first analytics team. We don't use AI to augment traditional BI workflows — we've replaced them. The Finance Analytics team builds the intelligence layer that Strategic Finance runs on: AI agents that encode repeatable finance processes, Streamlit apps that surface real-time insight, semantic models that let any analyst query complex data in plain English, and workflow automations that collapse hours of manual work into a single prompt.

Our primary development environment is CoCo (Cortex Code), Snowflake's AI coding assistant, and SnowWork, the AI IDE we ship work in. Every deliverable on this team is built AI-first: you design the workflow, you write the prompt, you validate the output. If you are still building dashboards by hand, refreshing Excel files manually, or treating AI as a spell-checker for your code — this role will ask you to operate differently.

This is a high-breadth seat. One week you're building a new AI agent for quarterly revenue analysis; the next you're designing a sensitivity analysis tool for an earnings war room. You are equally comfortable in an AI-IDE, a Python file, and a stakeholder summary for a senior finance leader.

What you'll work onAI agent and workflow development (primary focus)
  • Design and build skills and agentic experiences that encode repeatable finance workflows — revenue analysis, cost monitoring, earnings prep, headcount tracking — into reusable, invokable tools using CoCo and SnowWork

  • Write and iterate on prompt & skill structures (YAML + Markdown skill files) based on output quality and stakeholder feedback

  • Build skills that allows non-technical finance analysts to produce analyst-quality output in a single prompt

  • Evaluate model outputs rigorously — you are the quality gate before anything reaches a finance stakeholder

Finance analytics
  • Build and maintain quarterly and weekly revenue summary pipelines

  • Support sensitivity analysis models for quarterly business reviews & revenue forecast scenarios

  • Produce ad-hoc analysis for Strategic Finance

Semantic Layer & Application development
  • Build and improve semantic data models that expose finance tables to natural language queries via Cortex Analyst

  • Develop and deploy production finance dashboards as Streamlit apps (locally and deployed to Snowflake)

  • Build customer-facing demo applications for Sales and Field teams

  • Apply reusable component patterns and shared utility libraries for consistent, polished UI

Earnings and reporting automation
  • Participate in quarterly earnings cycle prep — scenario tooling, export automation, IR data requests

  • Build and maintain source-of-truth reporting exports (multi-tab Excel, formatted to spec)

  • Support ad-hoc disclosure and investor relations data needs during quarter-end

Hard skills required

Must-have

AI-assisted developmentYou have used an LLM coding assistant (CoCo, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude, or equivalent) as your primary development tool — not an occasional helper, not a code reviewer. You know how to write a prompt that produces production-ready output, how to steer a model that's heading in the wrong direction, and how to encode domain logic into a reusable, parameterized skill. You have a measurable, trackable record of daily AI usage.

Prompt engineering and skill authoring — You can write a structured prompt (YAML + Markdown or equivalent) that routes correctly 95% of the time, handles edge cases gracefully, and encodes enough domain knowledge that the model behaves like a subject matter expert. You think in terms of context, instructions, examples, and output format — not just "the thing I typed before the code came out."

Python — Modern, type-hinted, readable. You write Python-based applications, data pipelines, and reporting automation. You understand caching, session state, and how to structure a multi-page app cleanly.

SQL — CTEs, window functions, incremental pipeline patterns. You don't look up the syntax for a row-numbered deduplication.

Data modeling fundamentals — You understand semantic layers, and how to build a model that a non-technical user can query in plain English.

Strong plus
  • Snowflake Cortex — Cortex Analyst, Cortex Agents, AI_SUMMARIZE, AI_EXTRACT, Dynamic Tables, semantic views

  • SnowWork / CoCo — Prior experience deploying agents, authoring skill files, or working within the Snowflake Intelligence ecosystem

  • Finance literacy — You can read a revenue waterfall, distinguish ARR from NRR, and explain what drives a QoQ change in product revenue

  • Reporting automation — openpyxl, multi-tab Excel exports formatted to spec, named ranges

  • dbt — Model authoring, ref() patterns, YAML tests in a cloud warehouse context

  • Semantic search / embeddings — Vector similarity, embedding-based retrieval, and how they power natural language analytics

Soft skills required

Translates between AI, data, and finance

Your stakeholders are financial analysts and senior directors who think in Excel models and board decks. You write prompts and code, but your output needs to make sense to someone who has never opened a terminal. You are the translation layer between what the model can do and what finance actually needs.
You communicate complex ideas simply, ensuring stakeholders understand, trust, and can act on what you build. You are the translation layer between what the model can do and what finance actually needs.

Thinks in workflows, not tasks

You don't just answer a question — you build a tool that answers it forever. When asked to do something twice, you automate it. Your instinct is to encode work into a reusable agent, not to redo it manually each week.

Works fast with high accuracy

The role runs on a weekly cadence tied to finance deliverables. You scope, build, and ship a working artifact in 1–2 days. Accuracy matters more than speed — but accuracy is not a reason to be perpetually slow.

Minimum requirements
  • 4+ years of experience in analytics, data engineering, or a technical finance adjacent role

  • Has used an AI coding assistant as a primary development tool — daily usage, not occasional

  • Proficient in SQL — you can write a window function without looking it up

  • Has shipped at least one Python application that end-users actually interacted with

  • Comfortable working in Git (PRs, branches, code review)

  • Familiar with fiscal year concepts and core revenue metrics (ARR, bookings, NRR)

What success looks like at 90 days
  • You've built at least two net-new AI agents or workflow tools deployed to the Finance Analytics skill library

  • You've taken ownership of the quarterly and weekly revenue analysis workflows — they run correctly on schedule without hand-holding

  • You've shipped at least one Streamlit app to production or a demo application to the Sales Field team

  • You've participated in at least one quarterly earnings cycle

  • Your CoCo usage is measurable, consistent, and growing week over week

Why this role is unusual at this level

This seat asks you to do all of that and build the AI infrastructure that makes the entire Finance Analytics team faster. You are simultaneously a practitioner and a workflow engineer.

If you are fluent with AI development tools, you can punch significantly above your level.

The analyst this role is backfilling ran over 22,000 AI-assisted development sessions in their first three months. That's the pace expectation.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

Skills Required

  • 4+ years of experience in analytics, data engineering, or a technical finance adjacent role
  • Experience using an AI coding assistant as a primary development tool
  • Proficient in SQL
  • Experience shipping at least one Python application

Snowflake Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Snowflake and has not been reviewed or approved by Snowflake.

  • Equity Value & Accessibility Equity grants (RSUs) and an ESPP are central to total compensation and are described as highly valuable. Feedback suggests many see equity as a major satisfaction driver with meaningful upside potential.
  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Pay is considered competitive and accompanied by clear communication on salary, equity, and advancement. Feedback suggests pay practices emphasize fairness and transparency.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, adoption assistance, and family planning resources are notably comprehensive. Feedback suggests these programs materially support major life events.

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The Company
HQ: Bozeman, MT
9,023 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Snowflake powers the end-to-end data lifecycle – from ingesting and processing data to analyzing and modeling it, to building and sharing data and AI applications – helping engineers, analysts, and leaders innovate faster and achieve more with their data. We're on a mission to empower every enterprise to achieve its full potential through data and AI.

Why Work With Us

Snowflake is where data does more, and so do you. More innovating, more growing, and more collaborating. Here, you’ll find the sweet spot between building big and moving fast, in technology and your career.

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