Strategic Finance, Confluent
Top Line
$122.2-157.7k
+ Equity
Data streaming platform
Posted today
Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$122.2-157.7k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Founded by the team that built Apache Kafka, their mission is to make managing Kafka easy.
Role
Who you are
- BA/BS degree in Finance, Accounting or related field
- 5+ years of experience at Finance at SaaS company, Investment Banking, Private
- Equity or related field
- Highly proficient in financial analysis and model building
- Highly proficient in Excel, Powerpoint, Google Sheets/Slides
Desirable
- Hands-on experience with Tableau, SQL, Data Lakes, SFDC. Prior experiences working with large database / SQL a plus
- Familiarity with usage-based revenue model a plus
What the job involves
- This role plays a key leadership role in Confluent’s revenue insight/forecasting process
- Reporting to the Director, this role is critical in ensuring financial accuracy in revenue forecasting and harnessing revenue insights
- The role will be involved in updating and building out a forecasting model based on complex datasets on a monthly basis and synthesizing topline trends for quarterly executive and board meetings
- This is a highly visible role that requires cross-functional coordination across Sales, SalesOps, Revenue Accounting / Technical Revenue, Data and Corporate FP&A
- Proactively manage revenue forecast by analyzing variances, surfacing insights, and communicating key risks, opportunities, and business drivers
- Refine and maintain data-driven, driver-based revenue model by understanding business model and impact of business changes
- Build strong relationships cross-functionally to continually drive forecast accuracy, improve processes and automation, and establish rigor in measuring the business
- Deliver quantitative and qualitative analyses with high precision and efficiency
- Provide ad-hoc analysis to support operational and strategic decision making
Our take
Confluent is a commercial company built on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Confluent and Kafka have developed a streaming data technology that processes massive amounts of information in real-time.
The streaming database technology was developed at LinkedIn as a way of moving massive amounts of messages. The company decided to open-source that tech in 2011, and Confluent launched as the commercial arm in 2014.
While the base open-source component remains available for free download, it doesn’t include the additional tooling the company has built to make it easier for enterprises to use Kafka. Confluent's value add is in those additional tools, including a cloud version of the product and a marketplace for sharing extensions to the platform.
Confluent expanded strategic partnerships with Microsoft and acquired Immerok, and in 2023 expanded its cloud platform. 2024 saw further product expansions with the launch of the Confluent Migration Accelerator, all exemplifying how the company is living up to its name by rocket-boosting the benefits of Apache Kafka integration for companies.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company values
- Earn Our Customers' Love - Our customers are the lifeblood of our business and our most important stakeholder. We strive to earn their love with everything we do
- To Build a Great Company, Build a Great Team - We believe that an important part of building a great company is making sure that our employees are the best they can be.
- Smart, Humble, and Empathetic - Our employees appreciate, benefit, and learn from working with other smart, humble, and empathetic people. We strive to hire those who care deeply about others and interact with empathy towards our customers, partners, and employees.
- Be Fired up and Get It Done - As much as we benefit from working with smart, humble, and empathetic employees, we also need to “get it done” to pursue our enormous market opportunity. We are in hyper-growth mode and are scaling to fill the demands of the market and our current and future customers.
- Tasteful not Wasteful - We want to invest in areas that matter the most -- in other words, spend “tastefully,” not wastefully. We believe that thoughtful spending is essential to building a high-quality business.
- One Team - It is critical that we act as and make decisions as a unified company, doing our best to optimize globally rather than locally. This means doing our best to avoid the misalignments that some companies can be prone to. It means recognizing that when employees and teams succeed, Confluent as a whole succeeds.
Company HQ
Mountain View, California
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Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Principal Engineer at LinkedIn.
Neha Narkhede
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Previously a Lead Engineer at LinkedIn and Oracle. They are an Investor/advisor for Gem, Block Party, Material Security, Abacus AI, Cortex Data, Yugabyte, Metaphor Data, Natalist, Common Room, and more.
Jun Rao
(Co-Founder)Previously a Senior Engineer at LinkedIn. Has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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