About the position
Databricks is looking for a Finance Manager to join our FP&A team in our mission to help data teams solve the world's toughest problems. In this unique role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to marketing leadership, providing financial insights, analysis, and guidance to optimize marketing investment decisions and accelerate business growth. As an analytical finance professional who has experienced hyper-growth, you will help the business to be successful and achieve their goals, grounded in financial reality and modeling and analysis. You will work independently, have deep experience in system and process improvements to achieve scale, and are comfortable distilling complex data into models and recommendations. Reporting to the Director of Marketing Finance, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact through ownership of large-scale data, tracking critical metrics, building scalable reporting frameworks and dashboards, ad hoc performance analysis, and executing other core FP&A responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Generate insightful recommendations based on hands-on analytics, financial modeling, and strategic analyses that directly influence key business decisions and improve the reporting of critical metrics
- Build and maintain complex financial models to evaluate marketing program effectiveness, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value, and marketing funnel metrics
- Analyze marketing campaign performance and provide actionable insights to improve efficiency, optimize spend allocation, and drive better returns on marketing investments
- Become an expert on the underlying data architecture and use it to report on business performance
- Work and build relationships with strategic partners across finance, accounting, and marketing analytics & operations
- Develop and enhance policies and procedures, and implement system improvements to support hyper-growth at scale
- Support annual operations planning for marketing spend, collaborating closely with stakeholders to understand business drivers and risks
- Partner with Marketing business partners in managing budgets and forecasts, maintaining accuracy to within 2% variance, and providing ongoing analysis of actuals versus plan and forecast
- Provide support for headcount management
- Perform monthly/quarterly close activities with accounting, including the review of expense accruals
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a comparable quantitative field
- 5+ years of FP&A, Strategic Finance, or related experience (e.g., Investment Banking, Management Consulting), with a focus on technology; familiarity with the software industry, SaaS business, or consumption-based models
- Experience working with Marketing, or go-to-market organizations, with a deep understanding of GTM motions
- A strong understanding of marketing metrics, including CAC, LTV, attribution models, and digital marketing analytics, is a major plus
- Experience with SQL and analytics/reporting tools
- Strong understanding of data structuring and data flows across multiple platforms/tools
- Financial modeling skills and quantitative analysis experience
- Expert in Excel and Google Sheets; can maintain complex spreadsheets, comfortable with large datasets, different modeling techniques, and shortcuts
- Experience with GAAP and non-GAAP financial metrics
- High competency with systems such as Anaplan, Netsuite, Salesforce, Coupa, or Workday
