Financial Analyst

Job Title

Join Applied Materials to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology.

Salary: $106,000.00 - $146,000.00

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Job Description Summary

Requires strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and extensive experience in financial and operational analysis. Applies best practices and deep understanding of business drivers to improve decision quality. Solves complex problems by taking new perspectives and developing scalable financial frameworks. Works independently with minimal guidance and serves as a thought partner and resource for colleagues with less experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead cross functional teams to drive process improvements, portfolio prioritization, cost focus on new products and scalable consolidated service product reporting
• Key business partner to SBU heads to drive strategic process definition and collection of information for financial reviews
• Define and implement finance processes, templates, and checkpoints that support evolving product development processes and strategies
• Build and maintain robust cost models, economic assessments, and investment frameworks for ongoing and emerging service offerings.
• Connect information from multiple sources (engineering, operations, commercial, and finance systems) to create new, scalable financial models and standards
• Develop revenue, margin, and customer engagement plans, and evaluate value creation relative to required investment and associated risks
• Support organizational portfolio management by assessing financial performance, investment needs, and value drivers across offerings to guide balanced, strategic decision-making
• Build sustainable evaluation processes that support consistent, long-term business planning and capability building
• Lead working sessions to define roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and operating mechanisms for new and evolving finance processes
• Drive strategic conversations, synthesize insights, and align recommendations across multiple stakeholder groups
• Prepare and consolidate key financial analyses, including QoQ and YoY revenue and margin performance
• Identify execution opportunities, monitor progress, and help drive corrective actions where needed
• Build scalable KPI dashboards, trackers and financial frameworks to help leadership prioritize the highest value opportunities and strategic initiatives
• Streamline and document core finance processes

Key Expectations

• Deepen understanding of the service business environment and emerging trends
• Collaborate, communicate and lead effectively across functions, enabling alignment and improved execution
• Bring curiosity and structured thinking to understand top-line and bottom-line drivers
• Establish scalable, repeatable processes that strengthen the finance function's impact
• Operate proactively and independently, delivering high-quality outcomes even with limited direction or in ambiguous situations

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree, MBA preferred
• Typically 57+ years of relevant experience
• Advanced Excel skills required; experience with Tableau, Power BI, or SQL strongly preferred

Time Type: Full time

Employee Type: Assignee / Regular

Travel: No

Relocation Eligible: No

The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.