Senior Financial Analyst

What We’re Building

Honeycomb is the observability platform for teams who manage software that matters. Send any data to our one-of-a-kind data store, solve problems with all the relevant context, and fix issues before your customers find them. Honeycomb is the unified, fast, and collaborative choice for engineering teams who care about customer experience to get the answers they need, quickly. We are passionate about consumer-quality developer tools and excited to build technology that raises our industry’s expectations of what our tools can do for us. 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, as 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 remote-first 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.

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 BI tools, SQL a plus

What you'll get when you join the Hive

• Base pay of $125,000- 150, 000
• 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 - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical
• A remote-first mindset and culture (really!)
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
• 100% employee/75% for dependents coverage for all benefits 
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
• Annual development allowance 
• And much more...

Diversity & Accommodations:

We're building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other, and welcome nontraditional candidates, and people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. You don't need to be a millennial to join us, all gens are welcome! Further, we (of course) follow federal and state disability laws and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations during the application phase, interview process, and employment. Please email [email protected] to discuss accessible formats or accommodations. As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work; if we can do better - we want to know!