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