FinOps / Expense Analyst
About Turing:
Based in Palo Alto, California, Turing is one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems. Turing helps customers in two ways: working with the world's leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilingualism, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that expertise to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for Fortune 500 companies and government institutions. Turing has received numerous awards, including Forbes's One of America's Best Startup Employers, #1 on The Information's annual list of Most Promising B2B Companies, and Fast Company's annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies. Turing's leadership team includes AI technologists from industry giants Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, McKinsey, Bain, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT.
Role Overview
We are seeking a FinOps / Expense Analyst to be the finance partner to Accounting and the business for endtoend purchasing and operating expense processes. You will own daytoday operations in expense management, support variance analysis and expense forecasting, and build crisp reporting packages for leadership. You will improve policy adherence, reduce shadow spend, and raise the signaltonoise ratio in our opex so leaders can make faster, better decisions.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the Finance point of contact for Zip (intake/PO), Concur (T&E), and Ironclad (contracts); ensure requests flow efficiently with proper approvals and documentation.
- Partner with Accounting on monthend close for opex: accruals, reclasses, coding hygiene, and actuals vs. forecast reconciliations.
- Build and maintain variance reporting (monthovermonth, quartertodate, YoY) with clear drivers and recommended actions.
- Support the FP&A Expense Lead on forecasting and budget refreshes; maintain driverbased models at costcenter and department levels.
- Develop and deliver reporting packages and executive dashboards covering opex trends, runrate analyses, policy exceptions, and savings opportunities.
- Stand up spend analytics and KPI frameworks (e.g., PO cycle time, policy compliance, nonPO spend %, T&E per head, vendor concentration) and drive remediation.
- Coordinate with Procurement/Legal on vendor diligence, contract terms, renewals, and consolidation opportunities.
- Partner with Business Systems to enhance tooling, integrations, and AIassisted automation (document parsing, anomaly detection, policy checks).
Qualifications
- Experience: 36+ years in FP&A/FinOps/Accounting with handson ownership of purchasing and expense workflows.
- Tools: SQL and BI tooling experience required; strong Excel/Google Sheets; NetSuite (or similar ERP) and Salesforce exposure preferred.
- Operating rigor: Detailoriented, organized, and deadlinereliable; comfortable building processes that scale.
- Business partnering: Effective at working across Accounting, Legal, RevOps, and budget owners; diplomatic but firm on policy.
- Analytics: Strength in variance analysis, forecasting, and KPI design; able to translate data into action.
- Mindset: Proactive problemsolver who seeks automation and drives outcomes.
Why Join Turing
- Play a foundational role in shaping how financial strategy supports a categorydefining company.
- Remotefirst culture with autonomy, flexibility, and high standards.
- A seat at the table in a company redefining what's possible with applied AI.
- Competitive compensation with meaningful equity.
