Strategic Finance Manager, Confluent
$150-180k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Data streaming platform
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Data streaming platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$150-180k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help every organization harness data in motion so they can compete and thrive in the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience in FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, investment banking or consulting
- Ability to work quickly and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while maintaining a high level of precision and attention to detail
- Excellent financial modeling and analytical capabilities
- Comfortable with ambiguity and effective at managing multiple priorities
- Strong communication skills (written, verbal & presentation) with the ability to understand and communicate difficult concepts and provide recommendations
- Extraordinary work ethic
- Proactive desire to improve and scale processes
- Strong knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, including ASC-606
Desirable
- Experience with Salesforce, NetSuite, and Anaplan, SQL
- Investment banking experience
- Experience with consumption business models
- Finance experience in a high growth software company
What the job involves
- We are seeking a self-motivated Strategic Finance Manager to join our corporate FP&A team. In this high-profile role, you will be critical in the successful execution of the Company’s long-range financial plan and provide data-driven insights in support of strategic initiatives across the company.
- The ideal candidate is a highly-motivated individual who is intellectually curious, results driven, and a crisp communicator with strong business and financial acumen. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Strategic Finance
- Provide strategic insights and recommendations to leadership on company financial performance, including metrics, to help meet long term growth plans
- Support the long range planning financial model
- Responsible for forecasting and creating analyses regarding NRR and ARR related metrics and providing thought leadership on the implications of these metrics on a consumption based business model
- Develop and maintain financial models and analyses to support critical strategic, financial, and operational decisions
- Help leadership gain key insights, with the purpose of driving growth and efficiency while delivering a high return on investment
- Identify and lead initiatives to continuously improve, automate, and scale forecasting and reporting tools and processes
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.
Now, it looks like IBM is eyeing the company for acquisition and Confluent looks to be a natural fit. Long positioned as the real-time backbone behind modern application, Confluent would gain global scale and an even deeper enterprise reach under iBM, while cementing its role at the center of AI-driven architectures. For COnfluent, the deal would marka shift from fast-growing independent disruptor to foundational infrastructure player powering the next wave of enterprise AI.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2020
$250m
SERIES E
Jan 2019
$125m
SERIES D
Total funding: $455.9m
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Jay Kreps
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Confluent in 2014, Jay spent 7 years at LinkedIn, holding various roles including Principal Engineer and Principal Staff Engineer.
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