The Role

Zeta is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Analytics and Revenue Forecasting to lead the Finance-owned view of Programmatic revenue, gross profit, and performance. This role will turn complex commercial and financial data into a clear forward-looking forecast, actionable pacing insights, and executive-ready recommendations. The role is a core business partner to Programmatic leadership and will help strengthen planning discipline as the business scales.

This is a hybrid role based out of our NYC office.
What you will do
• Own the Finance revenue and gross-profit forecast for Programmatic, including the weekly and monthly outlook, forecast assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
• Build and maintain a forecast architecture that connects historical performance, daily pacing, advertiser and agency trends, pipeline, churn, seasonality, and other commercial drivers to a dependable Finance point of view.
• Lead P&L forecasting, variance analysis, gross-margin and COGS analysis.
• Create timely daily and weekly performance views that identify variance drivers early and translate them into clear actions for Finance and business leaders.
• Develop executive materials and narratives for Programmatic leaders, including performance readouts, forecast updates, and decision support.
• Partner with Commercial Finance on quarterly revenue-target modeling.
• Advance automation and data reliability across Snowflake, Adaptive Planning, Workday, and reporting tools, reducing manual effort and increasing confidence in performance and forecast reporting.
• Establish strong controls and documentation around forecast inputs, reporting logic, and recurring data-quality checks.
What you will bring
• 7+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, data analytics, revenue forecasting, business analytics, or strategic finance; experience supporting a high-growth, data-rich commercial business is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ownership of a revenue, gross-profit, or P&L forecast and the ability to explain performance drivers, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leaders.
• Strong analytical and financial-modeling skills, including comfort working with large and imperfect data sets and turning analysis into a point of view.
• Experience with planning, financial-reporting, and data tools such as Adaptive Planning, Workday, Snowflake, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms.
• Excellent executive communication skills. You can make a clear recommendation, explain the underlying evidence, and tailor the message for a senior business audience.
• A collaborative operating style with the judgment to challenge assumptions constructively and work across Finance, Sales, Operations, and data teams.

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Unlimited PTO
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employee Equity
• Employee Discounts, Virtual Wellness Classes, and Pet Insurance And more!!

SALARY RANGE

The salary range for this role is $170,000 - $180,000, depending on location and experience.

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