Financial Planning And Analysis Manager

About PingCAP

PingCAP is an open-source database company with ~600 employees. Its main product TiDB powers business-critical applications with a simplified data architecture, elastic scale, hybrid data processing, and always-on performance. Our customers include Databricks, Block, Pinterest, and etc. They rely on TiDB to handle their data-intensive workloads while empowering developers to build more features faster. PingCAP was founded in 2015 and is backed by Sequoia, GGV, Access, Coatue, and others and has raised over 600m in funding.

PingCAP is continuing to build an innovative finance team that is helping the business scale. We are looking for a Finance Manager to join the Finance team. As a key member on a lean team, you will be responsible for creating the structure, process, and reporting for the team to expand our partnership with various business functions. You will be critical in providing valuable business insights to drive decision-making. In addition, you will own P&L forecasting for NA and EMEA business and the monthly close partnership with accounting.

You must have exceptional financial, analytical and organizational skills and be comfortable juggling multiple tasks while meeting tight deadlines. At the same time, you are a top performer in a fast-paced environment and possess the creativity to improve your area of responsibility constantly.

Responsibilities:

• Strong partnership collaboration with Accounting and Tax to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting
• Manage frequent ad hoc projects to support management and business decisions
• Ownership of non-financial reporting, including company dashboards and KPI trend analysis
• Implement and improve systems and processes to increase productivity and accuracy of the FP&A team
• Lead financial reporting, forecast and planning processes for NA/EMEA business, including process management, communication and reporting
• Support management financial reporting, including Board decks, annual budget, and monthly and quarterly business reviews
• Partner with Sales and Engineering Leadership to help set the strategic direction for the business
• Ensure the use of appropriate tools and skills to create visually impactful slides for executive and Board-level presentations

Desired Qualifications, Skills And Experience:

• Excellent financial modeling, analytical, problem solving and system skills
• 5~8 years of finance FP&A experience in Sales finance, BU finance and/or Corporate FP&A, ideally in a fast-growing SAAS company
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ability to translate financial analytics into clear and insightful recommendations, and to tell the story beyond the numbers
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, or equivalent. MBA preferred
• Experience managing the financial planning process across a company
• Strong business partnering skills
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a deadline-driven environment while maintaining a high level of precision

What You Will Gain:

• Opportunity to build and shape a powerful, industry-changing database product from the get-go
• Working with a globally team of passionate (and compassionate) developers, hackers, and open-source fanatics
• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• 401k retirement plan
• Competitive salary
• Awesome, supportive coworkers with a good sense of humor
• Employee referral bonus program
• Flexible paid time off
• Meaningful equity in a fast-growing enterprise startup