Sr. Data Scientist - FP&A

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Challenge

In joining Adobe’s Worldwide Digital Media Finance organization, you will have the opportunity to serve as a Sr. Data Scientist embedded in our FP&A team within the largest business unit at Adobe ($17.5B Revenue). This unique opportunity is focused on uncovering insights surrounding the complex relationships between our bookings, billings, and revenue data in order to inform decision making and key financial metric forecasting.

The ideal candidate for this role has strong technical skills (SQL, Python, experience with big data projects using cloud-based data platforms), but also has a proven track record of partnering with accounting, finance systems, FP&A, and other auxiliary teams. We’re looking for somebody who can partner effectively code efficiently, and present methodologies and results to anybody from analysts up through SVPs. You will work with people and teams both local and remote in a matrixed organization.

• Pull contract, customer, and event level data to surface relationships between bookings, billings, and revenue data. Eventually the Sr. Data Scientist will be tasked with supporting decisions that impact relationships between the above as well as develop and run a new forecasting paradigm using the above insights.
• Work with accounting, finance, FP&A, and auxiliary teams to acquire project information and gain organization-wide support.
• Present proposed methodologies and results to finance partners at various levels – analyst through SVP
• Create or collaborate on dashboards surfacing the above insights
• Serve as mentor to junior data scientists/analysts
• Upon successful completion of the above, opportunity to expand to other areas

Knowledge & Skills

• Deep experience in applying big data and data science techniques to traditional FP&A problems
• Excellent problem-solving skills. Candidate can cut to the heart of and articulate issues, scope and select recommended solutions, and implement them with minimal guidance
• Strong communication skills. Candidate can clearly, succinctly, and constructively communicate with partners to achieve our organization’s many goals.
• Exceptional presentation skills – can explain complex modelling methodologies and processes to non-technical audiences appropriately tailor messaging to background and level of audience
• Evangelist: Excited to apply data science techniques to traditional FP&A problems and grow their responsibilities over time as well as mentor other members of the organization
• Familiar with common financial concepts like ARR
• Intermediate/Advance Python programming skills
• Familiarity with data pipelining, within a cloud framework (e.g. Databricks, GCP, Azure) preferred

About Adobe

At Adobe, we’re changing the world. How? We give people the tools to bring their ideas to life and build content that makes life more fun and work more significant. We give businesses and organizations the power to truly engage their customers. We're the ones behind the elegantly designed content that streams across your laptop, TV, phone, and tablet every day—and we’re the ones who harness the extensive power of big data to help companies move from data to insight and insight to action by delivering content that people have an appetite for most.

At Adobe, you will be immersed in an exceptional work environment that is recognized throughout the world on Best Companies lists. You will also be surrounded by colleagues who are committed to helping each other grow through our unique Check-In approach where ongoing feedback flows freely.

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When you join Adobe, you can look forward to collaborating with the most genuine people in the industry, working on projects with real purpose, and having immense pride in the products we create and the customers we support. You will also be surrounded by colleagues wh