Senior FP&A Analyst, Data Analytics & Forecasting

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.

 

The Team:

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 Opportunity:

This is a unique opportunity to drive the intersection of data and finance as a part of the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team at Datadog. As a senior data analyst, you will be tasked with building, owning, and maintaining our global ARR/revenue forecast, and automating ARR analytics and reporting. You will drive critical metrics for our high-growth business, which are central to decision making from our executive team and board of directors. You will report to Senior Manager FP&A, work closely with our VP of FP&A, and work collaboratively with our Strategy and Ops and Revenue teams, among others. 

 

You Will:

• Own global near-term ARR (annual run-rate revenue) forecasting
• Enhance existing usage trend analysis and forecasting, while understanding the intersection of commercial activity
• Extrapolate near-term forecast to intermediate and long-range planning and scenarios
• Drive automation of ARR analytics and reporting, and the democratization of customer/ARR data to key stakeholders
• Work with massive data reports to analyze sales and operating performance that will help make important business decisions 
• Work as a key member of the FP&A Top-Line team to holistically understand historical and forecast ARR/revenue data
• Partner with the Strategy and Operations team to influence the business to grow intelligently
• Partner with Datadog’s Internal Analytics team to build out and maintain analytics consistent with the company’s data and tooling
• Along with manager, present weekly/monthly/quarterly forecasts to business partners and executives, including CFO, CEO, and CRO
• Work as a part of the broader FP&A team to understand the company’s financials, analytics, and help the organization to scale thoughtfully
• Train other employees to use data to answer questions without assistance.

 

Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional experience, in data analytics, investment banking, consulting, and/or FP&A
• A mastery of data analysis and visualization using Business Intelligence tools such as Metabase or Tableau
• You are fluent in writing analytical SQL and Python, are able to write complex queries with no assistance
• You can explain complex datasets or queries to non-technical people in understandable ways
• You have a natural curiosity and investigative mindset - driven to know “why”
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel
• You are a clear, concise communicator that works well with others

 

Bonus Points:

• Experience working with large customer and product data 
• Experience with data warehouses such as Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery
• Experience building forecasts and/or predictive models
• Experience in or understanding of a consumption-based software business model

 

Benefits and Growth: 

• 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
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

 

Work Location:

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. This role will require work in in-office 2-3 days per week (subject to change), and flexible the r