Senior Accountant

<p>Datadog's Finance team partners with stakeholders across the organization, providing commercial, operational, and analytical support to ensure that Datadog’s business continues its rapid and efficient growth.</p> <p>We are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented <strong>Senior Accountant</strong> to join our growing accounting team. This role is an excellent opportunity for an accounting professional to play a key part in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, a solid understanding of accounting principles, and a passion for ensuring accurate financial reporting.</p> <p>As a Senior Accountant, you will be responsible for assisting in the month-end close process, preparing account reconciliations and financial statement analytics, supporting the preparation of internal reporting packages, supporting external audits, and assisting with ad hoc projects. You will collaborate cross-functionally with teams across the company, contributing to the continuous improvement of processes and internal controls.</p> <p><em>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.</em></p> <h4>What You’ll Do:</h4> <ul> <li>Own key areas of the monthly, quarterly and annual financial close process, with a primary focus on Sales and Marketing expenses</li> <li>Assist in preparing internal reporting packages, ensuring financial reporting is timely, accurate, and compliant with US GAAP</li> <li>Perform analytics over financial results to ensure completeness and accuracy of financial statements</li> <li>Investigate reporting discrepancies and communicate issues promptly to management</li> <li>Serve as a key point of contact for year-end financial statement audits, quarterly reviews, and internal audit and SOX requests</li> <li>Proactively recommend and implement process improvements to simplify, standardize and streamline accounting efforts</li> <li>Partner with Sales, Marketing, FP&amp;A and other teams to understand and support business processes, ensure proper accounting treatment, and resolve reconciling differences</li> <li>Participate in special projects, including system implementations, process enhancements, and ad-hoc financial analyses<br><br></li> </ul> <h4>Who You Are:</h4> <ul> <li>3+ years of progressive accounting experience , preferably within a public company or Big 4, and hold a BS/BA degree in Accounting</li> <li>CPA-certified (or on track to be certified)</li> <li>A strong team player with a positive attitude</li> <li>Strong technical acc