Vijay Ramesh — Finance Business Partner

Experience

The work speaks for itself.

From first finance hire at a startup to partnering with the C-suite of a public company.

Finance Manager, Product FP&A

Reddit, Inc. (NYSE: RDDT) · San Francisco, CA

May 2022 – Present

Primary finance partner to the Chief Product Officer — managing a ~$100M opex budget, annual business planning, departmental budgeting, and rolling forecasts across engineering and product.
Built the financial case for Reddit's data licensing business, driving revenue from $8M → $100M (14× growth) in one year by commercializing Reddit's dataset to GenAI, social listening, and financial firms.
Led cloud infrastructure RFP negotiations (AWS hosting/CDN), delivering $23M in COR savings and 90%+ gross margins.
Designed Reddit's first stage-gated product investment framework — redirecting $8M from underperforming bets to higher-ROI core initiatives.
Identified a ~90% decline in AI translation costs and reallocated capital to global machine translation — driving the platform's fastest international growth and adding ~4M users in 2025.
Directed investment toward older Android devices using SQL-driven performance insights, driving a product redesign that delivered 10M users in one year.
Funded 6 major product launches: AI Search, Machine Translation, Advertiser Portal, Gold, Premium, and the Developer Platform.
Crafted earnings call narratives for product executives, translating product roadmap into business drivers monitored by Wall Street analysts.

Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate FP&A

Reddit, Inc. · San Francisco, CA

Aug 2020 – Apr 2022

Lead analyst during Reddit's IPO on the NYSE ($RDDT) — coached the executive team through the investor roadshow and created the first investor presentation articulating Reddit's value proposition.
Owned the Annual Operating Plan, partnering cross-functionally to develop integrated revenue projections, expense plans, and headcount forecasts.
Owned the engineering headcount planning model through Reddit's 3.7× workforce expansion (300 → 1,100+ engineers).
Delivered monthly executive financial reporting and variance analysis to the CFO and Board of Directors.
Designed SQL KPI dashboards tracking revenue growth, margins, DAU/MAU growth, headcount burn, and infrastructure cost-per-user.

Senior Financial Analyst → Financial Analyst

Neighborhood Goods · Dallas, TX

Jul 2018 – Aug 2020

Secured $11M Series A financing; maintained the company operating plan with projected-vs-actuals analysis and scenario planning across digital and physical channels.
Built the foundational financial model at company inception as the first finance hire; scaled it to support a 7-store metropolitan expansion forecast.
Queried and transformed data across selling and marketing channels to produce comprehensive views of customer behavior for executive decision-making.

Education

Foundations that compound.

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, TX · May 2018

Finance & Economics (Dual Major)

Quantitative Finance Program — business valuation, advanced investment analysis, and M&A.

Dedman Scholar — merit scholarship awarded to 1 of 12 students. National Merit Finalist (SAT 2240/2400).

Skills

Tools & capabilities

Adaptive InsightsExcelTableau SQLAWS Certified Cloud Practitioner GCP · BigQueryCDN Cross-Functional CollaborationExecutive Presence Strategic Communication

Off the clock: Pickleball, Neapolitan pizza making, cycling.