Financial Analyst

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Databricks is looking for a Financial Analyst to join the Sales Finance team in the FP&A organization. You will report to the Senior Manager, Finance. The Sales Finance team's primary goal is to help Databricks continue optimizing investment for long-term growth through thoughtful analysis and improving visibility across the business.

You will be a trusted advisor to Sales and Finance leadership, delivering insights and providing recommendations for driving sustainable growth. You will improve forecast reliability, enhance corporate reporting, establish processes, and scale our systems to help grow the business. You will analyze usage trends across products, track key performance metrics, and partner with sales strategy on executive-level presentations. 

The impact you will have:

• Analyze company performance against core KPIs and identify areas of potential risk and opportunities
• Build detailed empirical models from scratch to support financial recommendations
• Analyze daily usage trends across platforms, products, and business units and communicate insights for an executive-level audience
• Track the bookings pipeline and forecast impact on top-line financial performance
• Develop a deep understanding of Databricks’ business model to drive forecasts and business insights
• Partner with sales strategy and sales operations, and provide recommendations to finance leadership

What we look for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Accounting, Finance, or a comparable field
• 2+ years of corporate finance or management consulting and investment banking experience; familiarity with the software industry (and SaaS) a plus
• Experience in building financial models independently and preparing recommendations
• Solid understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and collaboration skills
• Experience simplifying and scaling while supporting a fast-moving, high-growth business
• Curiosity to learn and solve problems independently
• Ability to prioritize objectives in a fast-paced environment to ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner
• Expert in Excel/Google Sheets (can maintain complex spreadsheets); comfortable managing large datasets and driver-based models
• Prior experience using SQL or willingness to learn