We help engineering teams deeply understand their own production systems through observability.
The Role
Supports corporate forecasting, annual planning, financial reporting, month-end close, variance analysis, KPI tracking, board reporting, and budget-to-actual analysis. Maintains forecast models and financial planning systems, validates data, improves finance processes, and performs ad hoc analyses. Collaborates with accounting, sales operations, business leaders, and executives to support scalable decision-making and profitable growth.
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What We’re Building
Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023!
If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases.
Who We Are
We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers.
How We Work
We are a fully distributed company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote
Little more about the team:
Join Honeycomb as a Senior Financial Analyst and be a key player in our growing FP&A team! Reporting directly to the Director of FP&A, you’ll have a pivotal role in shaping our team. This individual will support the team with financial reporting, modeling, monthly/quarterly close cycles, forecasting, annual planning, and ad-hoc financial projects and analyses. Success in this role requires a self-starter with strong problem-solving and analytical skills, a passion for driving change in a fast-paced environment, and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally with various departments. If you’re ready to make an impact and grow with us, we’d love to hear from you!
What you’ll do in the role:
- Assist in Honeycomb corporate P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow forecasts and annual plan, understanding important levers and driving top-line growth balanced with profitability.
- Work across the broader team by collaborating cross functionally with business leaders, accounting and sales operations to help improve our monthly processes.
- Assist in running month-end close with accounting team, summarizing variances from forecasts and communicating to executive members.
- Track business performance and KPI trends against operating plans and prepare budget to actual reporting for management and other key stakeholders, including board of director’s reporting.
- Help implement and maintain financial planning tool, data validation and upkeep of forecast modelsImprove financial processes and identify areas to implement system improvements to support our growth as we scale.
- Support the finance team on special projects , ad-hoc analysis and requests as needed with a focus on improving processes and scalability.
What you’ll bring to the role:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or comparable field.
- 5+ years of FP&A, strategic planning, P&L management or related experience, with a focus on software and technology.
- Expert in Excel and Google Sheets; comfortable with different modeling techniques and shortcuts, ability to develop analysis and models that influence decisions.
- Able to hit deadlines and work in fast paced environment.
- Experience using ERP and financial planning systemsAble to work in ambiguous environment but still drive results, solve complex problems, exercise judgement based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.
- Very strong quantitative skills, a good sense of how to dissect problems and a strong ability to “connect the dots” – e.g. understand how pieces of data interact with each other or how one finding would influence the result of another analysis.
- Deep expertise in SaaS, ASC 606 revenue recognition rules.
- Familiarity with Pigment, BI tools, SQL a plus.
Base Salary based on level of experience
$125,000—$170,000 USD
What you'll get when you join the Hive:
- A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
- It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
- Time to recharge with unlimited PTO
- A distributed-first mindset and culture (really!)
- Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
- Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
- Annual development allowance
- And much more...
Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.
Phishing and Recruitment Scam Warning:
We take your security seriously. Please be aware that recruitment scams are increasingly common and scammers may create email addresses or websites to impersonate Honeycomb employees. To help protect you:
- All communications will come from an @honeycomb.io email address
- We occasionally work with external recruiting agencies. These partners will use legitimate business email addresses—never personal accounts like Gmail or Yahoo.
- Our recruiting process will never ask you to provide financial or sensitive personal information, including but not limited to:
- Social security or tax identification numbers
- Credit card numbers
- Bank account information
Diversity & Accommodations:
We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace—where people of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and abilities are welcomed, valued, and supported. We recognize that there is no single path to success and embrace nontraditional career journeys and diverse perspectives as key to building stronger, more innovative teams.
We strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. If you require accommodations or accessible formats at any point during our hiring process, please let your recruiter know.
As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback.
Privacy Notice:
If you apply for a job at Honeycomb and your application is unsuccessful (or you withdraw from the process or decline our offer), Honeycomb will retain your information after your application for a period of time in accordance with local laws. We retain this information for various reasons, including in case we face a legal challenge in respect of a recruitment decision, to consider you for other current or future jobs at Honeycomb, and to help us better understand, analyze and improve our recruitment processes.
For more information regarding our privacy practices please see the Honeycomb Privacy Notice.
If you do not want us to retain your information, or want us to update it, please contact [email protected]. Please note, however, that we may retain some information if required by law or as necessary to protect ourselves from legal claims.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a comparable field
- 5+ years of FP&A, strategic planning, P&L management, or related experience, preferably in software and technology
- Expertise in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, including financial modeling
- Experience using ERP and financial planning systems
- Strong quantitative, analytical, problem-solving, judgment, and communication skills
- Ability to meet deadlines and work effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
- Deep expertise in SaaS and ASC 606 revenue recognition rules
- Familiarity with Pigment, business intelligence tools, and SQL
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The Company
What We Do
Honeycomb is fast analysis tool that reveals the truth about how users experience your code in complex and unpredictable environments. Within seconds, find patterns and outliers across billions of rows of data to definitively solve problems. Learn more about us here: https://www.honeycomb.io/about/
Why Work With Us
We believe Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future. Within the industry, we are passionate about consumer-quality developer tools and excited to build a product that raises our industry’s expectations of what our tools can do for us. Inside Honeycomb, we care deeply about our culture, transparency, and inclusion.
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