Senior Budget & Forecast Analyst (AI-Driven) - Onsite

Spectraforce Technologies, Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies, Inc. seeks a Project Coordinator III to drive spend governance for hardware engineering. You will partner with engineering, procurement, and finance to plan, forecast, and report on OpEx/CapEx, building scalable dashboards and AI-assisted processes.

Ideal candidates have strong SQL/BI skills, excellent communication, and a track record of delivering actionable insights to senior leaders. This role is based in Sunnyvale with onsite collaboration three days per week.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on spend tracking, budgeting and forecasting, and capacity or resource analysis, ideally supporting an engineering, hardware, R&D, or manufacturing organization.
• Practical background in prompt engineering, AI agent development, or workflow automation tooling.
• Advanced spreadsheet skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, lookups, and large-workbook modeling, with a demonstrated ability to build reporting that others rely on.
• Experience building dashboards and data visualizations for a leadership audience using BI tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or internal equivalent).
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English, with ability to present financial analysis to senior non-finance stakeholders.
• High degree of autonomy, comfort with ambiguity, and bias toward closing loops without needing to be chased.
• Discretion in handling confidential budget, vendor, and headcount information.

Responsibilities

• Support engineering teams through quarterly and annual planning cycles by clarifying processes and tooling, resolving inquiries, and providing tailored analytical support to ensure on-time submissions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to audit budget and forecast submissions in internal tooling, ensuring data integrity and accuracy while providing ad hoc support to stakeholders.
• Analyze forecast and spend data, translating variances into a clear narrative with named drivers and identifying risks and opportunities.
• Log action items from reviews, follow up with owners, and drive items to closure.
• Run and review the monthly accrual cycle: collect accruals from owners, validate against open PO balances and goods or services received, and enter them in the internal tool on time.
• Build and maintain recurring reporting, including weekly and monthly budget status, forecast status, commitment reports, vendor and PO views, and dashboards.
• Build reusable AI agents and assistants for recurring workflows, analysis, and reporting tasks to drive efficiency and scale.
• Act as a trusted point of contact for budget owners on spend questions, working cross-functionally with Procurement, Sourcing Managers, Accounts Payable, and program management.

Skills

Spend and forecast data analysis

Executive‑level communication

Process improvement with AI

Prompt engineering / AI automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, Business Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, or related field

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Job description

Spectraforce Technologies, Inc. seeks a Project Coordinator III to drive spend governance for hardware engineering. You will partner with engineering, procurement, and finance to plan, forecast, and report on OpEx/CapEx, building scalable dashboards and AI-assisted processes.

Ideal candidates have strong SQL/BI skills, excellent communication, and a track record of delivering actionable insights to senior leaders. This role is based in Sunnyvale with onsite collaboration three days per week.