FP&A Analyst

About the position

Datadog 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. 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 Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team analyzes company financial data (revenue, customers, headcount, expenses, etc.) in order to support the business' growth and success. As an analyst supporting the team, you will manage the models and data, help create our annual budget and financial targets, and work with operational leaders 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, in order to help ensure operational alignment and inform decision making. 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.

Responsibilities

• Manage financial forecasts and analytics, which may include data across revenue, customers, product, company expenses, headcount / workforce, and cash flow data
• Support global headcount reporting and analytics, partnering with the People team to maintain accurate and actionable data
• Partner with senior business leaders to manage their departmental budgets, which may include the company's co-founder and CTO
• Help manage significant portions of the company's spend, which may include hundreds-of-million-dollars cloud hosting expenses
• 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 both product and customer levels to support data-driven decision making
• Work on ad hoc projects and strategic initiatives for senior management, which may include assessing potential acquisition opportunities and/or negotiations with strategic partners like cloud vendors

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
• Clear, concise communicator and team player with a humble mindset and 'can-do' attitude

Nice-to-haves

• MBA or CFA is a plus but not required
• Solid understanding of Workday Adaptive Planning or Pigment is a plus, but not required
• Experience in or understanding of a consumption-based software business model

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
• Best in breed onboarding
• Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture