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Salary: USD 99,000 - 132,000 / annual
Datadog is a leading observability and security platform for cloud applications, providing unified visibility across the technology stack. The Finance team collaborates across the organization to support rapid and efficient scaling through commercial, operational, and analytical support.
In this Strategic Finance role, you will partner with business leaders to analyze key financial and operational drivers that support company growth. You will manage and refine critical financial models and data, help create annual financial targets, and work directly with operational leaders across multiple functions to support execution against goals. Your work will be highly cross-functional, connecting insights across the organization through a financial lens to ensure operational alignment and inform decision-making.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing financial forecasts and analyses covering revenue, ARR, customers, product, and cash flow, translating insights into recommendations for senior leaders
- Partnering with senior business leaders across departments such as go-to-market (GTM) and Product to track performance and assess trends
- Supporting finance management on quarterly Board materials, including coordination and consolidation across stakeholders
- Collaborating with the Accounting team on monthly and quarterly flux analysis and financial close items
- Assisting in planning and budgeting cycles, ensuring consistency in tools, templates, and processes
- Becoming proficient with financial planning and business intelligence tools including Pigment, Tableau, and Metabase
- Conducting ROI and profitability analyses at regional and sales channel levels to support data-driven decision-making
- Working on ad hoc projects and strategic initiatives for senior management, including assessing business challenges and proposing solutions
The role requires 3 days per week in the New York office with flexibility for the remainder of the week.
Requirements:
- 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 building financial models and managing complex data
- Clear, concise communicator and team player with humble mindset and 'can-do' attitude
- Experience in or understanding of consumption-based software business models
- MBA or CFA is a plus but not required
- Solid understanding of Pigment or other EPM software is a plus but not required
