Director, FP&A

See yourself at Dataminr

We are looking for a Director, FP&A who wants to be at the center of the action. You'll be the financial mind behind our entire go-to-market organization: partnering shoulder-to-shoulder with Sales and Marketing leadership, owning the strategic annual operating plan that fuels our growth across budgets, capacity, sales, and building the reporting and analytics that you and our executive team uses to make real-time data-driven resource and growth decisions.
If you love turning data into clear actionable information ready for consumption and decisions at the executive and peer level, thrive on high stakes deadlines, and want to influence strategy at an exciting AI company, this is your opportunity. You will have real ownership, influence how the company measures and plans our GTM strategy, and not just be responsible for trending and reporting.
This is an NYC-based hybrid role requiring 2-3 days per week in office.

AI Innovation at Dataminr 

Working at Dataminr you’ll have the opportunity to tackle the most exciting trends in AI on a daily basis to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events around the world as they unfold.

Regenerative AI: our AI technology, ReGenAI, is a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs as events unfold. Learn more here.

Agentic AI: we recently launched our Agentic AI capability, what we’re calling our Intel Agents, that autonomously generates critical context for our clients on real-time events, threats, and risks allowing them to see the clearest, most accurate view of what’s happening on the ground. Learn more here

Multimodal AI: our platform detects events from many different types of data (images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages). Learn more here.

The opportunity

• Lead annual planning and forecasting for GTM, relentlessly pressure-testing ROI, and turning strategy and priorities into executable resource plans

• Build and manage sharp, dynamic financial models to capture sales capacity models, new markets, pricing moves, M&A, and investment trade offs that keep pace with our fast pace business

• Partner with GTM leadership in monthly budget reviews, identifying opportunities for improvement and investment shifts

• Own the sales reporting end to end, partner with Rev Ops to manage our data, and deliver the “why” behind the numbers

• Work next to the executive team on board and investor materials, and scenario planning that stand up to hard questions

• Join the CFO in banker and other external stakeholder meetings, tracking the competitive and market landscape

• Be able to partner closely across the business to run and execute any future acquisition integration plans

What you bring
At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don't meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed.

• 7-10 years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, ideally with time spent embedded in a GTM organization

• Fluency in SaaS financial concepts including financial statements, accruals, COGs, CAC, LTV, Magic Number

• Hands on experience in financial tools like Pigment, exceptional excel skills, and AI fluency

• A track record of building models and reporting from scratch in a fast moving, ambiguous environment

• High standards, attention to detail, and uncompromising drive for excellence

• Proven ability to turn a dense analysis into a clear story that helps senior executives drive business decisions

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About Dataminr

At Dataminr, we are a mission driven team of talented builders, creators and visionaries who have real-world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. Dataminr’s groundbreaking, AI-powered, intelligence platform provides organizations with the earliest signals of emerging risks, events, and threats before they unfold. Trusted by two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100, Dataminr’s platform analyzes billions of public data inputs spanning text, image, video, audio and sensor data across 150+ languages, empowering our clients to stay one step ahead in an increasingly complex world where every second counts. 

Founded in 2009, we have pioneered the world’s first real-time event detection platform, long before the recent Gen AI ‘boom.’ Dataminr operates all around the world united by our passion to use AI for the greater good, be agents of positive change and put our technology into the hands of clients charged with the responsibility to keep organizations running and keep people safe.

As our employees focus on developing our revolutionary technology, we focus on our employees. Dataminr is proud to offer a variety of flexible work arrangements, offices all over the world to foster collaboration, generous PTO and sick leave, and more, as part of our competitive benefits package aimed at keeping all our employees happy and healthy. Explore all our benefits here. 

We believe our differences give us strength. Our employees are empowered to be their best, authentic selves through various opportunities, such as our robust employee resource group (ERG) network, manager development programming, professional development funds, and more.

We serve a global community made up of many cultures and strive to reflect the world and clients we serve, with a workforce built on merit and equity. We actively condemn racism and discrimination in any form. We stand for social good, fostering a culture of allyship, and standing up for those who face systemic barriers to equality. We lead with empathy and strive to be agents of positive change in our company and in our communities.

The annual base salary range for this position is $147,200 - $216,000. You will also be eligible to receive a discretionary bonus and Company equity. Actual salary will be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, applicant skills, and prior relevant experience.

Dataminr is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Individuals seeking employment at Dataminr are considered without regards to race, sex, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, marital status, pregnancy, unemployment status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status.

Dataminr will collect and process your personal data in accordance with Dataminr’s candidate privacy notice available here. By providing your details and applying via our careers website, you acknowledge that you have read our candidate privacy notice. If you have any queries, please contact [email protected] or [email protected].

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