Senior Financial Analyst

liveviewtechnologiesinc; American Fork (UT); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Live View Technologies in American Fork, UT, is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to own R&D finance end-to-end. This in-office role partners with Engineering and Product to forecast, budget, and analyze ROI on hardware and SaaS investments, driving budgeting discipline as the company scales.

You will build driver-based models, manage cross-functional analyses, and influence spend decisions at the CFO/President level, shaping the company’s financial roadmap and headcount planning.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years in FP&A, corporate finance, or strategic finance, with ownership of a budget or spend end-to-end.
• Experience forecasting and controlling engineering and product development spend, including capitalized vs expensed R&D.
• Understanding gross margin dynamics across hardware COGS and SaaS.
• Ability to work with technical leaders and present financials to VPs+.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the forecasting and budgeting process for R&D and product development spend, replacing ad hoc estimates with a repeatable, driver-based model.
• Serve as the embedded finance partner to Engineering and Product leadership, translating roadmap and headcount decisions into financial impact.
• Lead ROI and capacity planning analysis for R&D investments, helping leadership decide which initiatives get funded, deferred, or cut.
• Establish forecasts and tracking for software and product development costs in partnership with Accounting, ensuring R&D spend is classified and reported correctly.
• Build headcount and hiring plans for Engineering and Product in partnership with People and R&D leadership, tying growth to budget and roadmap milestones.
• Build trusted senior-level relationships with R&D and Product leaders to influence spend decisions before they become budget problems.

Skills

FP&A depth

R&D finance

Hardware + SaaS

Cross-functional partner

Modeling authority

ERP experience

Excel/Sheets modeling

Tools

ERP systems

Adaptive Planning

Job description

ABOUT LVT

LVT is redefining how businesses operate in the physical world, moving beyond traditional security solutions to deliver AI-driven, actionable intelligence that makes sites smarter, safer, and more secure. Since pioneering our first mobile, solar-powered units , our commitment to scrappy, hands-on innovation has made us an established leader and one of the fastest-growing companies in intelligent site technology. We are building the next generation of solutions-from our physical units in the field to a powerful Agentic AI platform-that allows our customers to gain unprecedented visibility and control over safety, compliance, and operations. This is your chance to join a cutting-edge team that isn't just watching the world change, but actively building the technology that is changing it.

We're a team that's focused on growth and innovation, and we're proud that our crew, products, and leadership are being recognized for it.

A Top-Tier Growth Company: Named one of the Financial Times' Fastest Growing Companies 2025 and #10 on the Inc. 5000 Rocky Mountain Regional list for 2025.

Innovative Leadership: Our CEO, Ryan Porter, was named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2025 , and our CTO, Steve Lindsey, was inducted into the Silicon Slopes CTO Hall of Fame in 2024.

Product & Software Excellence: We were named one of The Software Report's Top 100 Software Companies of 2023 and a winner of the Security Today Govies Award for 2025.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

As LVT scales toward our next phase of growth, we're adding a Senior Financial Analyst to our FP&A team, a senior individual contributor role built for someone who wants to own R&D finance end to end. You'll bring predictability to how we budget, forecast, and evaluate return on our R&D and product development spend, and you'll become the embedded finance partner our Engineering and Product leaders turn to first. Outside of R&D, you'll support many of our operational leaders and lead special projects: high-priority, cross-functional analyses that inform decisions at the CFO and President level. This is a chance to build the financial discipline around R&D at a scaling hardware and SaaS company.

This is an in-office role based at our headquarters in American Fork, UT.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

R&D Finance & Business Partnership

• Build and own the forecasting and budgeting process for R&D and product development spend, replacing ad hoc estimates with a repeatable, driver-based model.
• Serve as the embedded finance partner to Engineering and Product leadership, translating roadmap and headcount decisions into financial impact and financial constraints into roadmap tradeoffs.
• Lead ROI and capacity planning analysis for R&D investments, helping leadership decide which initiatives get funded, deferred, or cut.
• Establish forecasts and tracking for software and product development costs in partnership with Accounting, ensuring R&D spend is classified and reported correctly.
• Build headcount and hiring plans for Engineering and Product in partnership with People and R&D leadership, tying growth to budget and roadmap milestones.
• Build the trusted, senior-level relationships with R&D and Product leaders needed to influence spend decisions before they become budget problems, not after.

Special Projects

• Participate and lead high-priority, cross-functional analyses (margin expansion, unit economics, pricing, profitability studies) at the direct request of the CFO, President, or VP of FP&A.
• Own ad hoc financial modeling and analysis that supports company-wide strategic decisions, often on compressed timelines and with direct executive visibility.
• Partner across Engineering, Product, Operations, and Supply Chain as needed to support broader FP&A forecasting and reporting cycles.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE

• Proven FP&A Depth: 4-7+ years in FP&A, corporate finance, or strategic finance, with real ownership of a budget or spend area end-to-end.
• R&D Finance Fluency: You understand how to forecast and control engineering and product development spend, including the distinction between capitalized and expensed R&D costs.
• Hardware + SaaS Fluency: You understand gross margin dynamics across both a hardware COGS structure and a recurring-revenue SaaS model, and can speak to both credibly.
• Trusted Cross-Functional Partner: You build real relationships with technical leaders in Engineering and Product, and hold your own in a room with VPs and above without losing the room in financial jargon.
• Recognized Modeling Authority: You're the person others come to when a model breaks or a forecast doesn't tie out. Deep, expert-level fluency in driver-based financial modeling in Excel/Sheets.
• Systems Command: Hands-on experience with ERP, Financial Forecasting (Adaptive-preferred), and AI leveraging, with the judgment to know when a process needs to move out of a spreadsheet.
• Self-Directed Operator: You take ambiguous, high-visibility asks and build the process as you go.
• Builder's Min