Principal Financial Analyst (AI)

Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA; hybrid work with candidates required to be within commuting distance of the Williamsburg office

Annual base salary: $170,000–$200,000 USD

Company

hirify.global provides an AI-powered product network that helps governments and businesses build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.

What you will do

• Own monthly budget forecasts, business metrics, and variance reporting for the Technology organization.
• Advise Technology leaders on investment decisions, headcount requests, driver-based financial models, and budget alignment.
• Manage cloud infrastructure financial operations, including spend forecasting, resource tagging, cost attribution, and commitment discounts.
• Build the financial framework for AI and LLM spend, including token-level unit economics, team and product cost attribution, and efficiency reporting.
• Translate cloud and AI infrastructure billing into GAAP-compliant accounting entries in partnership with Accounting and Cloud Engineering.
• Lead Technology procurement and vendor management, maintain contract and renewal inventories, negotiate cloud and SaaS agreements, and develop Board-level Technology scorecards.

Requirements

• 5–8+ years of progressive FP&A or finance business partnering experience in a high-growth technology or SaaS company.
• Direct experience partnering with R&D, Engineering, or Product organizations.
• Strong financial modeling skills in Excel and experience with at least one EPM or planning platform.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, including the ability to explain complex financial data to executives and technical leaders.
• Active use of AI tools for modeling, analysis, automation, or productivity.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; familiarity with ERP, CRM, and HRIS or workforce planning tools.

Nice to have

• Experience at an AI company.
• SQL proficiency for independent data extraction and analysis from a data warehouse.
• MBA.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work setup with a Williamsburg office commute requirement.
• Flexible Time Off focused on work-life balance.
• Paid parental leave of up to 26 weeks for birthing parents and 14 weeks for non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents.
• Medical, vision, dental, HSA, FSA, life, disability, and AD&D benefits.
• Fidelity 401(k), commuter benefits, wellness subscription, pet insurance, and dependent care FSA.
• Competitive equity grants and either a discretionary bonus or variable compensation plan may be included.