Finance Manager - Marketing Job at Databricks in Seattle

Overview

Join to apply for the Finance Manager - Marketing role at Databricks. Databricks is looking for a Finance Manager to join the FP&A team to support marketing investment decisions and accelerate business growth. Reporting to the Director of Marketing Finance, you will own large-scale data, track critical metrics, build scalable reporting frameworks and dashboards, conduct ad hoc performance analysis, and execute core FP&A responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Generate insightful recommendations based on hands-on analytics, financial modeling, and strategic analyses that influence key business decisions and improve reporting of critical metrics.
• Build and maintain complex financial models to evaluate marketing program effectiveness, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value, and marketing funnel metrics.
• Analyze marketing campaign performance and provide actionable insights to improve efficiency, optimize spend allocation, and drive better returns on marketing investments.
• Become an expert on the underlying data architecture and use it to report on business performance.
• Collaborate with strategic partners across finance, accounting, and marketing analytics & operations.
• Develop and enhance policies and procedures, and implement system improvements to support hyper-growth at scale.
• Support annual operations planning for marketing spend, collaborating with stakeholders to understand business drivers and risks.
• Partner with Marketing business partners in managing budgets and forecasts, maintaining accuracy to within 2% variance, and providing ongoing analysis of actuals versus plan and forecast.
• Provide support for headcount management.
• Perform monthly/quarterly close activities with accounting, including the review of expense accruals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a comparable quantitative field.
• 5+ years of FP&A, Strategic Finance, or related experience (e.g., Investment Banking, Management Consulting), with a focus on technology; familiarity with software industry, SaaS, or consumption-based models.
• Experience working with Marketing or go-to-market organizations with a deep understanding of GTM motions.
• Strong understanding of marketing metrics, including CAC, LTV, attribution models, and digital marketing analytics (a major plus).
• Experience with SQL and analytics/reporting tools.
• Strong understanding of data structuring and data flows across multiple platforms/tools.
• Financial modeling skills and quantitative analysis experience.
• Expert in Excel and Google Sheets; comfortable with large datasets and various modeling techniques.
• Experience with GAAP and non-GAAP financial metrics.
• Proficiency with systems such as Anaplan, Netsuite, Salesforce, Coupa, or Workday.

Pay and Benefits

Pay range visibility is provided for transparency. Zone 2 Pay Range: $136,700—$191,375 USD. Total compensation may include annual performance bonus, equity, and benefits. Actual compensation is based on location, skills, experience, and other factors. For more details, review the location-specific range on the company page.

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company powering data-driven decisions for thousands of organizations worldwide. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco with global offices and was founded by the creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow.