Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is seeking a Senior Finance Analytics Manager to join their Finance and Strategy team. This role involves establishing the Corporate Finance Analytics function, developing data models and dashboards, and providing critical insights to support strategic decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Partner with distributed data teams to build, iterate, and optimize our corporate data architecture. You will develop reliable data models to help define company-wide performance metrics, tracking them seamlessly from raw source data down through user-friendly reporting layers
- Design, build, and maintain production-quality dashboards and scalable data products. You will establish reliable, automated tooling that allows internal stakeholders to monitor key operating metrics in real-time
- Build advanced analytical models to unlock deeper insights into customer behaviors and macro trends, mapping operational opportunities directly to financial outcomes
- Synthesize complex data and analyses into compelling, structured narratives and actionable insights for executive consumption and senior leadership decision-making
- Lead cross-functional projects to develop datasets that support the organization's evolving needs; provide documentation and continuous enablement to help finance and business teams self-serve basic data needs
- Set a high bar for analytics integrity across the organization by managing urgent, ad-hoc data analysis requests and maintaining rigorous QA support for core financial data
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in corporate analytics, financial analytics, data science, or a directly related quantitative field
- 5+ years of hands-on SQL experience, with a daily habit of writing complex, highly efficient queries to mine data and build production-ready data models
- 3+ years of experience building user-focused, production-quality dashboards in tools like Looker, Tableau, Mode, or Sisense
- Practical experience performing data model development, building ETL processes, and working within modern data warehouses (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake)
- Familiarity with core enterprise systems and data structures, specifically NetSuite and Salesforce, to understand how financial and operational data flows from the source to reporting layers
- Exceptional communication skills with a proven track record of translating complex analysis into structured narratives for senior management
- Strong critical reasoning and financial modeling skills
- Understanding of the common pitfalls of data analysis, knowledge of how to track core SaaS metrics (ARR, NDR, retention), and ability to map operational trends directly to financial outcomes
- Experience in a fast-paced technology or SaaS business is highly preferred
- Previous experience with Grafana visualization, or a strong desire to invest the time to learn it, is a major plus
- Familiarity with dbt is highly desirable
- Experience working in a high-growth SaaS, cloud, or open-source company, particularly within a public company or an environment undergoing IPO readiness
- Proven success working within globally distributed, remote-first organizations across multiple time zones
- Experience documenting datasets and optimizing tooling for Model Context Protocol (MCP) server ingestion, or constructing AI skills and plugins to enable automated, LLM-driven internal data discovery
Benefits
- All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success.
- 100% Remote, Global Culture -As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
- In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it.
- We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *\*We will comply with local legislation where applicable.*
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