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Finance Manager – Marketing
Company | Databricks |
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Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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Salary | $152000 – $233000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a comparable quantitative field
- 5+ years of FP&A, Strategic Finance, or related experience (e.g., Investment Banking, Management Consulting), with a focus on technology; familiarity with the software industry, SaaS business, or consumption-based models
- Experience working with Marketing, or go-to-market organizations, with a deep understanding of GTM motions
- A strong understanding of marketing metrics, including CAC, LTV, attribution models, and digital marketing analytics, is a major plus
- Experience with SQL and analytics/reporting tools
- Strong understanding of data structuring and data flows across multiple platforms/tools
- Financial modeling skills and quantitative analysis experience
- Expert in Excel and Google Sheets; can maintain complex spreadsheets, comfortable with large datasets, different modeling techniques, and shortcuts
- Experience with GAAP and non-GAAP financial metrics
- High competency with systems such as Anaplan, Netsuite, Salesforce, Coupa, or Workday
Responsibilities
- Generate insightful recommendations based on hands-on analytics, financial modeling, and strategic analyses that directly influence key business decisions and improve the reporting of critical metrics
- Build and maintain complex financial models to evaluate marketing program effectiveness, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value, and marketing funnel metrics
- Analyze marketing campaign performance and provide actionable insights to improve efficiency, optimize spend allocation, and drive better returns on marketing investments
- Become an expert on the underlying data architecture and use it to report on business performance
- Work and build relationships with strategic partners across finance, accounting, and marketing analytics & operations
- Develop and enhance policies and procedures, and implement system improvements to support hyper-growth at scale
- Support annual operations planning for marketing spend, collaborating closely with stakeholders to understand business drivers and risks
- Partner with Marketing business partners in managing budgets and forecasts, maintaining accuracy to within 2% variance, and providing ongoing analysis of actuals versus plan and forecast
- Provide support for headcount management
- Perform monthly/quarterly close activities with accounting, including the review of expense accruals
Preferred Qualifications
- A strong understanding of marketing metrics, including CAC, LTV, attribution models, and digital marketing analytics, is a major plus