Strategic Finance Analyst

Datadog, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefits

RSUs

Career development

Job summary

Datadog seeks a Strategic Finance Analyst to partner with revenue and GTM teams in a hybrid New York office. You’ll manage and refine financial models, help build annual targets, and translate data into actionable insights for leadership.

You’ll collaborate across finance, product and operations, develop forecasts for ARR, revenue and cash flow, and contribute to planning processes. Strong Excel/PowerPoint and 2+ years of FP&A experience are required.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, or 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.

Responsibilities

• Manage financial forecasts and analyses for revenue, ARR, customers, product, and cash flow; translate insights into recommendations for senior leaders.
• Partner with senior leaders across GTM and Product to track performance and assess trends.
• Assist in planning and budgeting cycles; ensure consistency in tools, templates, and processes across the organization.
• Become proficient with BI tools like Pigment, Tableau, and Metabase.

Skills

FP&A

Finance

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or economics

Tools

Pigment

Tableau

Metabase

Job description

About the company:

the company is the essential monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. We bring together end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs to make your applications, infrastructure, and third-party services entirely observable. These capabilities help businesses secure their systems, avoid downtime, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

The Team:

the company's Finance team collaborates with teams across the organization, providing commercial, operational and analytical support to ensure that the company'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 the company, 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

the company 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, the company 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 the company is:

$99,000—$132,000 USD

About the company:

the company is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, the company enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and the company Learning Center.

Equal Opportunity at the company:

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