Senior Financial Analyst - FP&A

About the role

C3 AI is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join our FP&A team in Redwood City. This role is critical to driving strategic decisions through financial insights and operational rigor.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a dynamic revenue model incorporating real-time qualified pipeline data, applying cohort logic, and producing scenario analyses that guide strategic decisions
• Partner with Sales and Operations to define, track, and interpret core KPIs and translate the story behind the numbers for leadership
• Deliver clear, high-quality financial narratives for weekly, monthly, and quarterly business reviews, as well as long-range planning and external guidance in partnership with Investor Relations
• Manage expense forecasting, headcount planning, and ongoing business partnerships with key department heads across the company
• Identify and lead initiatives to automate, streamline, and scale Finance’s reporting and analytical infrastructure using AI tools, scripting, or other methods to eliminate manual work and improve accuracy
• Build ad hoc analyses and scenario models that inform business-critical decisions in a fast-moving environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a STEM-related field
• 2-4 years of progressive experience in Investment Banking, Private Equity, Corporate Finance, or FP&A
• Deep financial modeling expertise, able to build clean, auditable models from scratch across revenue, expenses, and headcount, and understand the importance of every assumption
• Strong understanding of software business metrics (ARR, NRR, churn, etc.) and familiarity with ASC 606 revenue recognition
• Hands-on proficiency with AI tools, particularly Claude, and a proven track record of building automations, agents, or analytical tools that improve speed, accuracy, or scale in a Finance context
• Strong communicator who can distill complex information for both financial and non-financial audiences, including senior leadership
• Proactive, intellectually curious, and comfortable operating with ambiguity in a high-growth environment
• A team player who holds themselves and others to a high standard and works to make the team better

Benefits

C3 AI offers excellent benefits, a competitive compensation package, and a generous equity plan. The base pay range for this position is $87,000—$110,000 USD.

Pay

Base pay range: $87,000—$110,000 USD

Schedule

This is a full-time position located onsite at our Redwood City office.

Skills

The ideal candidate will bring genuine financial rigor and a builder's mindset, seeing manual processes and being compelled to automate them. They should be fluent with AI tools, particularly Claude, and have a demonstrated track record of using them to do more with less.

Company Information

C3 AI is the Enterprise AI application software company. We deliver a family of fully integrated products including the C3 Agentic AI Platform, C3 AI applications, and C3 Generative AI. Learn more at: C3 AI.