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Salary: USD 125,000 - 170,000 / annual
Honeycomb is a Series D-funded observability platform serving enterprise customers including HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard. The company has scaled past 200 employees and was named to Forbes' America's Best Startups in 2022 and 2023. Honeycomb is fully distributed with a culture emphasizing trust, autonomy, and accountability from day one.
As Senior Financial Analyst, you will report directly to the Director of FP&A and play a pivotal role in supporting the growing finance team. You will own key responsibilities across financial planning, analysis, and reporting that directly influence executive decision-making and board-level communications.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain Honeycomb's corporate P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow forecasts and annual plans, identifying key business levers and balancing top-line growth with profitability
- Collaborate cross-functionally with business leaders, accounting, and sales operations to improve monthly close processes
- Support month-end close activities with the accounting team, analyze variances from forecasts, and communicate results to executive leadership
- Track business performance and KPI trends against operating plans; prepare budget-to-actual reporting for management and board of directors
- Implement and maintain financial planning tools, validate data, and maintain forecast models; identify opportunities for system improvements to support scaling
- Lead special projects and ad-hoc analyses focused on process improvement and scalability
This role requires a self-starter with strong problem-solving and analytical skills, passion for driving change in a fast-paced environment, and ability to work collaboratively across departments.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or comparable field
- 5+ years of FP&A, strategic planning, P&L management, or related experience with focus on software and technology
- Expert proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets; comfortable with modeling techniques and shortcuts; ability to develop analyses and models that influence decisions
- Ability to meet deadlines and thrive in fast-paced environments
- Experience with ERP and financial planning systems
- Ability to work in ambiguous environments while driving results and solving complex problems using multiple sources of information
- Strong quantitative skills with ability to dissect problems and connect data interactions across analyses
- Deep expertise in SaaS business models and ASC 606 revenue recognition rules
- Familiarity with Pigment, BI tools, and SQL is a plus
