Job description
MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.
MongoDB is hiring a Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) to lead the finance team supporting our Product & Technology (P&T) organization. This role involves partnering with product and engineering leaders to manage financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis for key business decisions, product strategy, and resource allocation. The Director will enable success by helping P&T executives and team leaders make better decisions and driving the evaluation, planning, execution, and measurement of strategic business initiatives.
This role has the option to be remote, hybrid, or in-office in NYC, Palo Alto, or San Francisco.
This role requires a highly analytical, adaptable self-starter who excels at clear communication, managing tasks from start to finish, and thriving in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
This role offers flexibility to be hybrid or in-office in NYC or Palo Alto, with a preference for NYC. Hybrid candidates should plan to be available in the local office for approximately 2-3 days per week, and Palo Alto-based candidates should expect to travel to NYC once per quarter.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary finance liaison to P&T leadership, building strong relationships and serving as a proactive advisor to your business partners, allowing you to build a deep understanding of data inputs and outputs
- 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
- Leverage your industry knowledge and business acumen to influence leadership and drive results
- Enhance financial processes, tools, and reporting for better visibility into P&T spend and performance, collaborating across teams to achieve results
- C onduct ad-hoc analyses and build financial models to guide leaders towards efficient operating strategies, resource allocation, and investments in growth initiatives
- Perform financial month-end close activities, including headcount reconciliations, accruals, journal entries, and budget vs. actuals analysis and reporting
- Track key performance indicators, analyze trends, investigate variances, and recommend improvements
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize processes and systems for operational efficiency
- Support business cases for major technology initiatives, including build-vs-buy decisions, cloud infrastructure spend, and tooling investments
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor’s Degree; finance, business or economics preferred, MBA is a plus
- 10+ years experience in FP&A, with strong analytical, critical thinking, and quantitative skills; experience supporting product, engineering, and technology teams is a plus
- Minimum of 4 years experience managing and leading a team
- Proficiency in financial modeling, Google Suite, financial planning tools (Adaptive), Netsuite, and SQL and/or Python know-how is a plus
- 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
To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!
MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.
MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Req ID: 2263140979
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, 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, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
$129,000—$253,000 USD
