Financial Analyst in Bengaluru, Karnātaka at ThoughtSpot

We're looking for a Financial Analyst to own the systems that carry our financial planning, forecasting, consolidation, and reporting processes. Our finance data should be clean enough and well-presented enough inside our Financial Planning tool, Abacum, that people trust what they see to run the business. When a question is too dense or too multi-dimensional to answer well on the team space, it should live in our data platform tool as a Liveboard — and you should be the person who knows where that line sits and balances data in the best tool for managing the business questions.

This is an individual contributor role on the core corporate finance team, reporting to the Director of Finance – Budget and Cost Management, in a lean team at a fast-growing global AI and Agentic Tools company. You'll manage the finance system operations, support the monthly forecast, track the close cycle, and shadow the team to take on more data systems and analytic projects.

• Serve as the primary system designer for Abacum — maintaining system health, performance, dimensions, hierarchies, and configuration across planning, consolidation, allocation, and reporting.
• Manage finance applications, data, user access and security, system configuration, and version management to ensure appropriate controls and governance.
• Design, build, and maintain financial models, workflows, calculation logic, and rules engines in Abacum to support planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, and allocation.
• Build and maintain ThoughtSpot finance Liveboards, keeping both reliably available for finance users.
• Identify and share best practices in using AI-first reporting and planning tools.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for finance and cost center users — resolving issues and answering system questions as the finance-side owner.
• Keep definitions, semantics, and hierarchies aligned across the stack so your systems are the source of truth for financial data and internally consistent.
• Own the enhancement roadmap — scope new capabilities, configure, test, manage releases, and work the vendor relationship.

• Own the accuracy and integrity of financial data across the stack.
• Build and maintain validation rules, reconciliation controls, and quality checks between source systems and Abacum and ThoughtSpot data models.
• Troubleshoot data discrepancies and drive them to resolution with the relevant teams.
• Support data migration and transformation work as the stack evolves.
• Treat data quality as a trust problem rather than a compliance one: numbers should reach the business without caveats attached.

• Support the monthly forecast, annual and long-range planning, workforce planning, and OPEX forecasting cycles as part of a cross-trained team where close and forecast responsibilities are shared.
• Apply LLMs and agent-based tools to automate recurring FP&A work — variance commentary, consolidation narratives, reconciliation checks, and reporting workflows. Build and maintain the workflow, then review the output and own the exceptions it flags.
• Drive adoption — onboard new cost center owners, build enablement material, run office hours, and track whether people actually use the tool or route around it into Excel.
• Test and validate system changes before release, and identify platform and process improvements on your own initiative.

What You Bring:

• 3+ years in FP&A, corporate finance, or finance systems, including hands-on ownership of a financial planning platform.
• Hands-on administration and build experience in a modern FP&A platform — Abacum, Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive Planning, Planful, or similar. Configuration, data modeling, and workflow build, not end-user reporting alone.
• Experience with integrations and dataflows between finance platforms and enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, data warehouse)
• Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into system specifications and designs.
• Experience building dashboards or reporting layers (ThoughtSpot, Tableau, Looker, PowerBI or similar) with real users on the other end.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools or agents to automate finance work — with a specific example you can walk through that you helped build.
• Advanced Excel and data manipulation skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Systems, Economics, or a STEM field.
• Experience working across multiple time zones with globally distributed teams.

Spotters are expected in-office 3 days per week to experience the energy of their local office. This approach balances the benefits of in-person collaboration and peer learning with the flexibility needed by individuals and teams.

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.

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.

Spotters are expected to exemplify these key traits and AI Mindset:

• 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

This combination of curiosity, adaptability, and discernment defines the AI mindset, and it’s required for every role at ThoughtSpot.

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.

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.

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.