Senior Financial Analyst

Little more about the team:

Join Honeycomb as a Senior Financial Analyst and be a key player in our growing FP&A team! Reporting to the Director of FP&A, you'll partner primarily with our R&D organization — product and engineering — as the finance lead for how we understand and manage the cost of running Honeycomb. You'll take ownership of our BI and planning tool (Pigment), continue and improve our cloud-hosting-cost (COGS) analysis, and support R&D capitalization, forecasting, and planning. This role suits someone who takes initiative, solves problems analytically, and actively drives process improvements in a fast-paced environment, and who's comfortable collaborating cross-functionally with engineering, product, data, and IT. 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:

• Own and improve our cloud-hosting-cost (COGS) analysis — breaking hosting spend (e.g., compute, storage, and AI/LLM usage) down by area and by customer to understand customer-level usage and margin
• Take ownership of Pigment, our BI and planning tool — building and maintaining reports and supporting forecasting and monthly and quarterly close
• Partner with engineering on R&D capitalization, capitalizing engineering time for the products they help build
• Run forecasting and planning for the R&D organization, including headcount and software planning
• Track and help manage our AI/LLM tooling costs, monitoring usage against budget
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, data, and IT to improve our financial processes and reporting
• Support the finance team on special projects and ad-hoc analysis, with a focus on improving processes and scalability as we grow

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a comparable field — or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of FP&A, strategic planning, or P&L management experience at a SaaS company
• A technical orientation, with the ability to partner directly with engineering and product teams
• Expert in Excel and Google Sheets, comfortable with a range of modeling techniques, and able to build analysis and models that influence decisions
• Experience with ERP and financial planning/BI tools — Pigment (or a comparable tool such as Mosaic) a strong plus
• Comfortable in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment: driving results, solving complex problems, and exercising judgment across multiple sources of information
• Strong quantitative skills and the ability to connect the dots across data sources to inform decisions
• Familiarity with cloud/hosting cost structures, R&D capitalization, or SQL a plus

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...