Senior Financial Analyst
Company Description
Dynatrace exists to make the world's software work perfectly. Our unified software intelligence platform combines broad and deep observability and continuous runtime application security with the most advanced AIOps to provide answers and intelligent automation from data at an enormous scale. This enables innovators to modernize and automate cloud operations, deliver software faster and more securely, and ensure flawless digital experiences. That is why the world's largest organizations trust Dynatrace® to accelerate digital transformation.
We're an equal opportunity employer and embrace all applicants. Dynatrace wants YOU-your diverse background, talents, values, ideas, and expertise. These qualities are what make our global team stronger and more seasoned. We're fueled by the diversity of our talented employees.
Job Description
The incumbent will join a fast-paced organization, playing a central role in providing financial support and guidance as part of the monthly/quarterly close, forecast activities and the annual planning process. A core part of the role will involve working with Business Systems to improve FP&A process effectiveness and efficiency. As the Sr. Financial Analyst, you will own and lead our Forecasting & Business Planning process within the Business Finance function, prior in-depth experience supporting Business Operations, R&D and G&A, is extremely valuable. You will act as a key financial and strategic partner for members of the Dynatrace Executive and Leadership Team. This role will also be responsible for certain company-wide reporting, planning, and assisting with FP&A's data analytics strategy. Your work and insight will directly contribute to Dynatrace's incredible growth story on a global scale. You are highly analytical, data driven, detail-oriented, comfortable dealing with ambiguity, and effective in balancing multiple priorities.
What you will be focusing on:
- Be a valued and integral part of our global team, engaging with various levels of leadership
- Leadership: Finance Business Partner to drive strategic, operational, and financial insights. Enhance modeling for key strategic investments, resource management, the annual spend/investment planning process, quarterly forecast updates, and business reviews
- Partner with functional leaders to provide value-added insights that drive faster, smarter decisions and more accurate forecasts
- Work closely with your business partners to improve visibility into risks and opportunities in their operating plans and highlight key considerations as they execute against their plan
- Prepare proposals to summarize findings and present recommendations to senior leadership
- Perform monthly variance analyses of budget/forecast against actual financial performance, surfacing the "why" behind variances versus plan/forecasts
- Support automation of KPI reporting in collaboration with Business Intelligence Finance team to improve data accessibility, reliability, and time-to-publication
- Collaborate across all teams within Finance to assist in the implementation and administration of key financial reporting/planning systems
Qualifications
- 4 to 7 years of progressive experience in finance in a corporate setting
- Possess strong financial and operational analytical capabilities, and a genuine interest in understanding the business drivers and economics of a high growth Subscription business
- Advanced user of Microsoft Excel (pivots, macros, nested formulas) required; experience with data visualization tools, e.g., Tableau and/or Microsoft PowerBI is a plus
- Experience working in NetSuite and OneStream Planning/Forecasting/Business Intelligence environments is a plus
- Strong track record of working cross-functionally to support critical business objectives
- Comfortable developing analysis and recommendations in the presence of ambiguity by asking questions and challenging the status quo when appropriate