Director of FP&A, R&D

Summary

Join MongoDB as a Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) and lead a team of finance professionals. You will be responsible for financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and analyzing key business decisions, product strategy, and resource allocation. The role requires strong business partnering skills, building and maintaining financial models, and providing thought leadership. You will conduct analyses, evaluate sales productivity, and perform month-end close activities. This position offers the option of remote, hybrid, or in-office work in NYC, with some in-office presence required for hybrid or remote options. The ideal candidate is an adaptable self-starter with excellent communication and project management skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree; finance, business or economics preferred, MBA a plus
• 10+ years experience in FP&A, and/or superior analytical, critical thinking, and quantitative skills
• Minimum of 4 years experience managing and leading a team
• Ability to analyze data, draw conclusions, and develop actionable recommendations
• Highly articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Think creatively, are highly driven, and skilled at creating structure in situations that are uncertain or ambiguous within a rapidly growing business
• Highly organized, with incredibly strong project management skills. You will need to be detail-oriented, love multi-tasking, and have excellent follow-through skills
• Demonstrated the ability to roll up your sleeves and work with team members, driving projects through to completion

Responsibilities

• Business Partnering: Quickly establish positive relationships and become a key advisor for your local business partners, allowing you to build a solid understanding of business data inputs and outputs
• Forecast Coordination & Modelling: Build and maintain detailed financial and operating models to help predict future performance, perform scenario analyses, and guide the business on strategic decisions. Key models will include the headcount capacity model and other productivity analysis that drive cost-efficient outcomes
• Strong Thought Leadership: Bring insights from industry knowledge and your business acumen to show a capability of influencing business leadership to drive results; You will have a passion for improving existing processes and be able to work across teams to achieve results
• Analyzing: conduct ad-hoc analyses and build financial models to guide leaders towards efficient operating strategies, resource allocation, and investments in growth initiatives
• Evaluating: deliver regular insights of sales productivity and commissions for each sales segment
• Perform financial month-end close activities, including headcount reconciliations, accruals, journal entries, and budget vs. actuals analysis and reporting
• Monitor key performance indicators, highlighting trends, providing recommendations for improvement, and analyzing causes of unexpected variances
• Partner with departments across the organization to drive operational efficiencies within our cross-functional teams’ processes and systems

Preferred Qualifications

Proficiency in financial modeling, Google Suite, financial planning tools (Adaptive), Netsuite, and SQL know-how is a plus

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• 401(k) plan
• Mental health counseling
• Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
• Health benefits offerings