Finance Manager - Marketing

Databricks Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 233,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking company is searching for a Finance Manager to join its FP&A team in San Francisco. This role involves providing financial insights and analysis to optimize marketing investments and drive business growth. You will leverage your experience in financial modeling and analytics to influence key business decisions while collaborating closely with marketing and finance teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in FP&A, a deep understanding of marketing metrics, and the ability to distill complex data into actionable recommendations. If you're ready to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, this opportunity awaits you.

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits

Annual performance bonus

Equity options

Flexible work hours

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of FP&A or Strategic Finance experience, ideally in technology.
• Strong understanding of marketing metrics and data flows.
• Expertise in financial modeling and quantitative analysis.

Responsibilities

• Generate recommendations based on financial modeling and analytics.
• Build and maintain complex financial models for marketing effectiveness.
• Analyze campaign performance to optimize spend allocation.

Skills

FP&A

Financial Modeling

Strategic Finance

SQL

Marketing Metrics

Data Analysis

Excel

Google Sheets

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business

Bachelor's Degree in Finance

Bachelor's Degree in Economics

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting

Tools

Anaplan

Netsuite

Salesforce

Coupa

Workday

Job description

Databricks is looking for a Finance Manager to join our FP&A team in our mission to help data teams solve the world's toughest problems. In this unique role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to marketing leadership, providing financial insights, analysis, and guidance to optimize marketing investment decisions and accelerate business growth.

As an analytical finance professional who has experienced hyper-growth, you will help the business to be successful and achieve their goals, grounded in financial reality and modeling and analysis. You will work independently, have deep experience in system and process improvements to achieve scale, and are comfortable distilling complex data into models and recommendations. Reporting to the Director of Marketing Finance, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact through ownership of large-scale data, tracking critical metrics, building scalable reporting frameworks and dashboards, ad hoc performance analysis, and executing other core FP&A responsibilities.

The impact you will have:

• Generate insightful recommendations based on hands-on analytics, financial modeling, and strategic analyses that directly influence key business decisions and improve the reporting of critical metrics
• Build and maintain complex financial models to evaluate marketing program effectiveness, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value, and marketing funnel metrics
• Analyze marketing campaign performance and provide actionable insights to improve efficiency, optimize spend allocation, and drive better returns on marketing investments
• Become an expert on the underlying data architecture and use it to report on business performance
• Work and build relationships with strategic partners across finance, accounting, and marketing analytics & operations
• Develop and enhance policies and procedures, and implement system improvements to support hyper-growth at scale
• Support annual operations planning for marketing spend, collaborating closely with stakeholders to understand business drivers and risks
• Partner with Marketing business partners in managing budgets and forecasts, maintaining accuracy to within 2% variance, and providing ongoing analysis of actuals versus plan and forecast
• Perform monthly/quarterly close activities with accounting, including the review of expense accruals

What we look for:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a comparable quantitative field
• 5+ years of FP&A, Strategic Finance, or related experience (e.g., Investment Banking, Management Consulting), with a focus on technology; familiarity with the software industry, SaaS business, or consumption-based models
• Experience working with Marketing, or go-to-market organizations, with a deep understanding of GTM motions
• A strong understanding of marketing metrics, including CAC, LTV, attribution models, and digital marketing analytics, is a major plus
• Experience with SQL and analytics/reporting tools
• Strong understanding of data structuring and data flows across multiple platforms/tools
• Financial modeling skills and quantitative analysis experience
• Expert in Excel and Google Sheets; can maintain complex spreadsheets, comfortable with large datasets, different modeling techniques, and shortcuts
• Experience with GAAP and non-GAAP financial metrics
• High competency with systems such as Anaplan, Netsuite, Salesforce, Coupa, or Workday

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks utilizes the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here .

Zone 1 Pay Range

$152,000 — $233,000 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter ,LinkedIn and Facebook .

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visithttps://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks .

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Compliance

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