Principal FP&A Business Partner

About DAT

Discover your future at DAT Freight & Analytics, where innovation meets impact. For over four decades, DAT has been at the forefront of transportation and logistics, helping businesses move freight with greater efficiency and confidence. We are a technology company that removes uncertainty from freight for truckers, brokers, and shippers every day. Our advanced tools and data intelligence empower professionals to make smarter decisions, optimize costs, and operate more successfully. Through the industry's largest digital freight marketplace and insights derived from over $1 trillion in freight transactions, we provide the mission-critical information that keeps supply chains running smoothly across the country. DAT is proud to be an award-winning workplace that fosters innovation, celebrates success, and values professional growth. With strategic offices in Beaverton, Oregon, Denver, Colorado, Springfield, Missouri, and Bangalore, India, our teams collaborate to solve the transportation industry's most complex challenges. Ready to shape the future of freight technology? Learn more at dat.com/company.

Application Deadline: 12/1/2025

The Opportunity

DAT is seeking a Principal FP&A Corporate Business Partner to join our Finance team as a high-impact business partner and influencer in Beaverton, OR. This role is designed for a proven finance professional with strong SaaS expertise who combines advanced modeling skills with a passion for understanding the operational drivers of the business.
The ideal candidate has hands-on operational finance experience, thrives in high-growth and fast-changing environments, and demonstrates intellectual curiosity, business partnership, and the ability to influence through data-driven insights. You will play a critical role in shaping our growth trajectory by identifying where processes and execution deviate from plan, providing actionable recommendations, and supporting leadership in making better, faster decisions.

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain robust SaaS financial models that capture key drivers of bookings, ARR/MRR, retention/churn, CAC, LTV, margins, and sales productivity.
• Translate ambiguous opportunities (new markets, products, pricing, or GTM strategies) into structured financial frameworks with clear assumptions and sensitivities.
• Leverage market sizing, unit economics analysis, and scenario modeling to evaluate strategic initiatives.
• Partner with leaders across Sales, Marketing, Product, and Operations to evaluate performance, identify execution gaps, and recommend solutions that drive improved outcomes.
• Proactively dig into business results to uncover drivers behind variances, inefficiencies, and underperformance, while establishing business accountability across critical operational functions.
• Serve as a trusted partner and thought leader who influences decision-making through rigorous analysis and clear communication.
• Support monthly close and reporting cycles, producing variance analysis, KPI tracking, and trend insights.
• Develop executive-ready presentations for senior leadership and Board meetings.
• Champion continuous improvement in forecasting, reporting, and analytics processes to increase scalability and impact.

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

• 7–12 years of experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or related operational finance roles; SaaS / recurring revenue business experience preferred with knowledge of usage-based pricing tactics and operational metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to bridge finance and operations — digging into execution details, uncovering root causes, and driving actionable insights.
• Strong understanding of AI tools and methodologies, with the ability to leverage AI for financial modeling, data analysis, process improvement, and decision support.
• Advanced financial modeling expertise, including market sizing, unit economics, and scenario planning under uncertainty.
• Strong proficiency with Excel/Google Sheets and FP&A platforms (e.g., Anaplan, Adaptive, Planful); SQL or BI tool proficiency strongly preferred.
• Track record of intellectual curiosity, strong business judgment, and ability to challenge the status quo to drive improvement.
• Exceptional influencing and communication skills — capable of simplifying complex analysis for senior leadership and functional partners.
• Comfortable thriving in fast-paced, high-growth environments with shifting priorities.

Why DAT?

DAT is an award winning employer of choice.
For starters, we have a hybrid work environment, but we also know what makes a great workplace. We have a time-tested and resolute set of operating values predicated on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and executing with excellence. These values inform our strategic vision as much as any one of our products does. We’ve been an employer of choice in the Portland metropolitan area for four decades, and within one year of opening our Denver office, DAT was #26 on Built In Colorado’s 100 Best Places to Work In Colorado.

• Be a core contributor to a high-growth SaaS company shaping the future of the freight tech industry.
• Work in a strategic IC role with direct exposure to executives and critical company decisions.
• Influence the growth trajectory by connecting financial insight with operational execution.
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
• Parental Leave
• Up to 20 days of paid time off starting in year one
• An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
• 401k matching (immediately vested)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
• Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
• Collaborative and supportive team culture
• Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
• Employee Resource Groups

For Oregon-based candidates, in compliance with Oregon's Pay Equity and Transparency Act (effective January 2024), the salary range for this role is $146,000 - $185,000. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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