Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

MongoDB is seeking a Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) to lead a team of finance professionals. You will be responsible for financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and analyzing aspects of key business decisions, go-to-market strategies, resource allocation, and sales compensation. The Director is expected to make significant contributions to the success of MongoDB by enabling executives and team leaders to make better decisions and will work closely with them to evaluate, plan, execute, and measure strategic business initiatives.

This position requires an adaptable self-starter who is able to work comfortably and communicate clearly with stakeholders across the organization, progress tasks from start to finish, and enjoys working in a fast-paced, challenging environment. This will be a hybrid in-office/remote role, and we are looking for candidates who plan to be available in our NYC office for approximately 2-3 days per week.

Responsibilities:

• Business Partnering: Quickly establish positive relationships and become a key advisor for your local business partners, allowing you to build a solid understanding of business data inputs and outputs
• Forecast Coordination & Modelling: Build and maintain detailed financial and operating models to help predict future performance, perform scenario analyses, and guide the business on strategic decisions. Key models will include the headcount capacity model and other productivity analysis that drive cost-efficient outcomes
• Strong Thought Leadership: Bring insights from industry knowledge and your business acumen to show a capability of influencing business leadership to drive results; You will have a passion for improving existing processes and be able to work across teams to achieve results
• Analyzing: conduct ad-hoc analyses and build financial models to guide leaders towards efficient operating strategies, resource allocation, and investments in growth initiatives
• Evaluating: deliver regular insights of sales productivity and commissions for each sales segment
• Perform financial month-end close activities, including headcount reconciliations, accruals, journal entries, and budget vs. actuals analysis and reporting
• Monitor key performance indicators, highlighting trends, providing recommendations for improvement, and analyzing causes of unexpected variances
• Partner with departments across the organization to drive operational efficiencies within our cross-functional teams’ processes and systems

What You'll Need:

• Bachelor’s Degree; finance, business or economics preferred, MBA a plus
• 10+ years experience in FP&A, and/or superior analytical, critical thinking, and quantitative skills
• Minimum of 4 years experience managing and leading a team
• Proficiency in financial modeling, Google Suite, financial planning tools (Adaptive), Netsuite, and SQL know-how is a plus
• Ability to analyze data, draw conclusions, and develop actionable recommendations
• Highly articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Think creatively, are highly driven, and skilled at creating structure in situations that are uncertain or ambiguous within a rapidly growing business
• Highly organized, with incredibly strong project management skills. You will need to be detail-oriented, love multi-tasking, and have excellent follow-through skills
• Demonstrated the ability to roll up your sleeves and work with team members, driving projects through to completion 

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