Strategic Finance Analyst
About The Position
Datadog's Finance team collaborates with teams across the organization, providing commercial, operational and analytical support to ensure that Datadog's business continues to scale rapidly and efficiently. Strategic Finance partners with the business to analyze key financial and operational drivers across the company in order to support the business’ growth and success. As an analyst supporting revenue, you will manage and refine key financial models and data, help create our annual financial targets, and work directly with operational leaders across multiple functions to support execution against our goals. Your work will be highly cross-functional and play a pivotal role in connecting the dots across the organization through a financial lens, ensuring operational alignment and informing decision making.
Requirements
- 2+ years of professional experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, or other related field
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or economics
- Mastery of Excel and PowerPoint with proven experience in building financial models and managing complex data
- You are a clear, concise communicator and team player with a humble mindset and ‘can-do’ attitude
- Experience in or understanding of a consumption-based software business model
Nice To Haves
- MBA or CFA is a plus but not required
- Solid understanding of Pigment or other EPM software is a plus, but not required
Responsibilities
- Manage financial forecasts and analyses that may include revenue, ARR, customers, product, and cash flow - translating insights into recommendations for senior leaders
- Partner with senior business leaders across various departments, such as go-to-market (GTM) and Product to track performance and assess trends
- Work with finance management on quarterly Board materials, including coordination and consolidation across stakeholders
- Partner with the Accounting team for monthly / quarterly flux analysis and financial close items
- Assist in planning and budgeting cycles, ensuring consistency in tools, templates, and processes across the organization
- Become proficient with various financial planning and business intelligence (BI) tools, including but not limited to Pigment, Tableau, and Metabase
- Assist with ROI and profitability analyses on regional and sales channel levels to support data-driven decision making
- Work on ad hoc projects and strategic initiatives for senior management, which may include assessing analyzing various business challenges / opportunities and proposing solutions
Benefits
- Generous and competitive benefits package
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
- healthcare
- dental
- parental planning
- mental health benefits
- a 401(k) plan and match
- paid time off
- fitness reimbursements
- a discounted employee stock purchase plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
