Datadog

Strategic Finance Analyst

Datadog • $99K — $132K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years in FP&A, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, or related fields
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or economics
  • Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint for financial modeling
  • Clear communicator with a collaborative mindset
  • MBA or CFA preferred but not essential
  • Familiarity with Pigment or other EPM software is a plus
  • Understanding of consumption-based software business models

Responsibilities

  • Manage financial forecasts and analyses, translating insights into actionable recommendations
  • Collaborate with senior leaders to evaluate performance trends across departments
  • Assist finance management with quarterly Board materials, ensuring stakeholder communication
  • Partner with Accounting for monthly/quarterly financial close and flux analysis
  • Support planning and budgeting cycles with standardized processes
  • Become skilled in financial planning and business intelligence tools like Pigment and Tableau
  • Conduct ROI and profitability analyses to guide decision-making
  • Engage in ad hoc projects addressing business challenges and opportunities

Benefits

  • Generous and competitive benefits package
  • New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
  • Opportunities for continuous career development
  • Product training for deeper understanding of offerings
  • Inclusive and friendly workplace culture
Full Job Description
The Team:

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.

The Opportunity:

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.

What You'll Do:
  • 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

Who You Are:
  • 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
  • MBA or CFA is a plus but not required;
  • Solid understanding of Pigment or other EPM software is a plus, but not required
  • Experience in or understanding of a consumption-based software business model

Benefits and Growth:
  • 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

Work Location:

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. This role will require you to work in the office 3 days per week, and flexible the remainder.

#LI-Hybrid

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:

$99,000-$132,000 USD

About Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for cloud-scale infrastructure and applications. The company was founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc and is headquartered in New York City. Datadog's platform assists organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across dynamic or high-scale infrastructures. The company's SaaS-based data analytics platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of customers' entire technology stack. Datadog's customers include Airbnb, Twilio, and The Washington Post.
Learn more about Datadog
Size
3,200 employees
Market Cap
$22.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$24.5 million
Founded
2010
Revenue
$603.4 million
NASDAQ

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