Strategic Finance Associate - NYC

Datadog's Strategic Finance team transforms data from Datadog and external sources into actionable analytical insights on a cross-departmental basis, to drive positive change at Datadog. Building bottom-up and top-down analysis about our products and business activity, this team delivers insights on longer-term company opportunities, forecasts, and goals. This team delivers industry and competitive insights to executives and business leaders, and delivers near-term insights by analyzing internal usage data. This team also partners cross-functionally to evaluate strategic business and go-to-market opportunities. The Strategic Finance Associate will report to the SVP, Investor Relations & Strategic Finance, and will interact with colleagues in the finance team and across the company.

We are seeking a Strategic Finance Associate to join Datadog. They will play an integral role in the data collection and transformation, analysis, delivery, and communication of material and information to internal stakeholders across multiple divisions. They will be instrumental in turning data into meaningful insights, crafting reports illuminating takeaways and action items from those insights, and communicating these across the company. By doing so, this team will drive positive change to help Datadog grow and scale our business. 

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.

What You’ll Do:

• Use advanced analytics to study revenue, product / platform, customer usage, and penetration trends.
• Develop meaningful insights on those trends, and disseminate analytical insights and action items using dashboards, presentations and reports tuned to various stakeholders and their interests.
• Participate in transformation projects to improve processes, automate repetitive tasks, increase data quality, and enable more stakeholders with data insights
• Create deliverables around near-term insights and provide analytical support on forecasting and planning processes.
• Craft top-down and bottom-up analyses to deliver long-term insights on the business and growth opportunities
• Support the preparation of presentations
• Collaborate across the organization, including finance, sales ops, product, marketing, and sales.
• Support ad hoc analytical projects from senior management, finance, etc.

Who You Are:

• Strong sense of ownership, intellectual curiosity, and an ability to think creatively and critically
• Strong understanding of the financials and metrics performance, as well as the ability to gain understanding the product & market, to distill into accessible and informative reports and narratives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Experience communicating data heavy insights to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to create and derive analytical implications from complex analyses and forecasting models
• Ability to craft impactful visualizations, reports, and presentations, making analyses 
• BA/BS in Data Science, Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative fields
• At least 1-3 years of professional experience, likely as a business analyst, data analyst, or in a quantitative finance or consulting role.
• Experience manipulating and analyzing complex datasets using SQL and/or Python.
• Proficiency with Excel

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits & Growth: 

• Generous and competitive benefits package
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
• Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
• Employee-focused best in class onboarding
• Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program
• Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $80,000—$115,000 USD

About Datadog: 

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.

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Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference. 

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