Strategic Finance Associate - NYC at Datadog in New York, NY

Summary: Datadog is a global SaaS business focused on enabling digital transformation and cloud migration. The Strategic Finance Associate will play a key role in transforming data into actionable insights, collaborating cross-functionally to support business growth and strategic initiatives. Responsibilities: - Use advanced analytics to study revenue, product / platform, customer usage, and penetration trends - Develop meaningful insights on those trends, and disseminate analytical insights and action items using dashboards, presentations and reports tuned to various stakeholders and their interests - Participate in transformation projects to improve processes, automate repetitive tasks, increase data quality, and enable more stakeholders with data insights - Create deliverables around near-term insights and provide analytical support on forecasting and planning processes - Craft top-down and bottom-up analyses to deliver long-term insights on the business and growth opportunities - Support the preparation of presentations - Collaborate across the organization, including finance, sales ops, product, marketing, and sales - Support ad hoc analytical projects from senior management, finance, etc Required Qualifications: - Strong sense of ownership, intellectual curiosity, and an ability to think creatively and critically - Strong understanding of the financials and metrics performance, as well as the ability to gain understanding the product & market, to distill into accessible and informative reports and narratives - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Experience communicating data heavy insights to technical and non-technical audiences - Ability to create and derive analytical implications from complex analyses and forecasting models - Ability to craft impactful visualizations, reports, and presentations, making analyses - BA/BS in Data Science, Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative fields - At least 1-3 years of professional experience, likely as a business analyst, data analyst, or in a quantitative finance or consulting role - Experience manipulating and analyzing complex datasets using SQL and/or Python - Proficiency with Excel Required Skills: SQL, Python, Data Analysis Important Skills: Excel, Financial Metrics Nice-to-Have Skills: Intellectual Curiosity, Communication Skills, Ownership, Creativity Benefits: Generous and competitive benefits package, New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan, Continuous career development and pathing opportunities, Employee-focused best in class onboarding, Internal mentor and cross-departmental buddy program, Friendly and inclusive workplace culture, Healthcare, Dental, Parental planning, Mental health benefits, A 401(k) plan and match, Paid time off, Fitness reimbursements, A discounted employee stock purchase plan