Description
Datadog is seeking a FP&A Analyst, Cloud Finance to join their Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team.
The FP&A team analyzes company financial data to support the business's growth and success. The successful candidate will be responsible for owning key components of the recurring reporting, close, and forecasting processes that provide visibility into one of Datadog’s largest and most strategically important cost areas.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with FP&A leadership to manage recurring forecast updates, review cycles, and board-ready materials.
- Help manage portions of the recurring hosting close, including savings reporting, cost allocation, and key operational drivers.
- Assist in maintaining the hosting forecast models across Excel and Pigment.
- Participate in recurring review cadences with FinOps and Engineering partners to align on capacity planning, savings plan coverage, and cost allocation decisions.
- Partner with Controllership on accounting support for monthly hosting close files.
- Work on ad hoc projects and process improvements, including identifying opportunities to automate recurring, manual steps in the close process.
- Become proficient with financial planning, cost monitoring, and BI tools, including Pigment, Snowflake, Metabase, and Datadog's own Cloud Cost Management (CCM) product.
Requirements:
- 2+ years of professional experience in FP&A, Strategic Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics, or a Cloud Finance/FinOps-adjacent role.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or economics.
- Strong Excel skills, including comfort working within large, formula-driven models.
- High attention to detail and reliability on recurring, deadline-driven close work.
- Clear, concise communicator who can work independently once ramped, with a humble mindset and 'can-do' attitude.
Nice to Have:
- Exposure to SQL.
- Exposure to cloud commitment-based pricing.
- Interest in cloud unit economics.
- Experience with or interest in Pigment or similar FP&A planning tools.
- Interest in process automation.
- Understanding of a consumption-based software business model.
- Hands-on experience with BI/reporting tools such as Tableau or Metabase.
Benefits:
- Generous and competitive benefits package.
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan.
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities.
- Product training.
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture.
Work Location: Hybrid (3 days in office, flexible remainder).
Salary: $99,000-$132,000 USD per year.