Finance Manager - Cloud Costs

Databricks is seeking a Finance Manager - Cloud Costs to join the Product Finance team, partnering with the R&D organization. This role involves delivering financial insights through modeling and analysis, focusing on improving the analysis, planning, and reporting of R&D spend, particularly cloud costs across multiple public clouds. The manager will design and implement models for forecasting, planning, and budgeting R&D expenses, and deploy Databricks & Anaplan solutions for key metric reporting.

Must Have

• Partner with infrastructure leaders to drive controllership of cloud cost reporting, budgeting and forecasting
• Improve forecast accuracy and develop recommendations informed by Databricks' business model and strategic investments
• Develop and maintain KPI dashboards to assess efficiency and identify areas of potential risk and opportunity
• Partner with cross-functional teams on cloud contracts, key partnerships and acquisitions that will materially impact infrastructure spend
• Develop Cost Attribution models to help inform drivers of current economics and improve forecasting
• Design, develop and monitor data flows and data integration between internal business applications and Anaplan to ensure data is timely and accurate
• Drive alignment on accounting policies and external reporting requirements for emerging areas of spend
• Work and build relationships with partners across the R&D organization, finance and accounting teams to deliver improved insights
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting or comparable quantitative field
• 4+ years of experience with financial modeling & data analytics
• Experience in FP&A and history supporting multi-cloud infra planning and cost reporting
• Excellent data & analytical skills
• Experience with SQL and BI reporting tools
• Expert in Excel and Google Sheets
• Understanding of GAAP accounting and non-GAAP financial metrics

Good to Have

• Experience with Anaplan

Perks & Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and perks

We are looking for a Finance Manager - Cloud Costs to join the Product Finance team in the FP&A organization as Databricks experiences growth at scale. You will report to a Senior Manager of Product Finance and will be a key finance partner to the R&D organization.As a finance professional who has experienced hyper-growth, you will help the business to be successful by delivering insights through modeling and analysis grounded in financial reality. You will help improve our analysis, planning, and reporting of R&D spend, with a focus on cloud costs and rationalizing and managing our cloud spend across multiple public clouds. You will design and implement models to forecast, plan, and budget for multiple types of R&D expenses and will be responsible for implementing Databricks & Anaplan solutions across the organization to support forecasting and reporting of key metrics.The impact you will have:

• Partner with infrastructure leaders to drive controllership of cloud cost reporting, budgeting and forecasting
• Improve forecast accuracy and develop recommendations informed by Databricks' business model and strategic investments
• Develop and maintain KPI dashboards to assess efficiency and identify areas of potential risk and opportunity
• Partner with cross-functional teams on cloud contracts, key partnerships and acquisitions that will materially impact infrastructure spend
• Develop Cost Attribution models to help inform drivers of current economics and improve forecasting
• Design, develop and monitor data flows and data integration between internal business applications and Anaplan to ensure data is timely and accurate
• Drive alignment on accounting policies and external reporting requirements for emerging areas of spend
• Work and build relationships with partners across the R&D organization, finance and accounting teams to deliver improved insightsWhat we look for:
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting or comparable quantitative field
• 4+ years of experience with financial modeling & data analytics
• Experience in FP&A and history supporting multi-cloud infra planning and cost reporting
• Excellent data & analytical skills; experience with SQL and BI reporting tools is required
• Expert in Excel and Google Sheets; can maintain complex spreadsheets, comfortable with different modeling techniques and shortcuts
• Understanding of GAAP accounting and non-GAAP financial metrics
• Experience with Anaplan is a plus