Financial Analyst, Sumo Logic
Strategic Finance
$91-124k
Salary dependent on location
Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps
Be an early applicant
Continuous intelligence platform for DevSecOps
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$91-124k
Salary dependent on location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Sumo Logic's mission is to create the leading machine data analytics platform that delivers continuous intelligence for modern applications.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration or a related field
- 3 - 5 years in varying Strategic Finance or FP&A roles, SaaS experience strongly preferred
- Prior experience with Financial Reporting systems, Netsuite and Adaptive Planning strongly preferred
- Prior business partnering experience, or demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional leaders strongly preferred
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to effectively translate for non-finance audiences of varying levels
- Demonstrated ability to manipulate, analyze, and summarize large data sets
- Superior analytical and modeling skills, including advanced proficiency in Excel
- High performance standards with high ethical values and passion for excellence
- Proven ability to operate and succeed within a fast-paced environment
- The ideal candidate has a strong FP&A foundation, with demonstrated success in business partnering
- This individual must be highly analytical and process oriented with excellent communication/collaboration skills and a proven track record of synthesizing and simplifying complex issues
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Financial Analyst, who will be an integral part of our finance team
- Reporting to the Manager of Strategic Finance, this individual will play a critical role on a team that combines strategy, analytics and financial analyses to enable the Company to scale successfully
- Additionally, you will drive key analyses underpinned by financial and analytic models at different granularity levels to drive operational and strategic insights
- Partner with cross-functional teams and support functions including FP&A and Accounting
- Drive strategic decision making by providing actionable insights through reporting and ad hoc analyses
- Support pricing, discounting and profitability analyses across existing and new product lines
- Drive 3-statement company financial model with the ability to create and maintain driver based financial models
- Build multiple forecast scenarios with business partner input
- Identify, recommend and drive process improvement initiatives to enable efficiencies and scale across the organization
- Develop and/or enhance key metrics that bring insightful and actionable insights
- Assist in the preparation of management reports and monthly/quarterly financial updates
- Perform ad hoc analyses as needed
Our take
Sumo Logic is a secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics service, delivering real-time, continuous intelligence from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across the entire application lifecycle and stack. More than 2,000 customers around the globe rely on Sumo Logic, including Pokemon, Canary, and Greenhouse.
Customers gain a multi-tenant, service-model advantage to accelerate their shift to continuous innovation, increasing competitive advantage, business value and growth.
After its IPO in 2020, February 2023 saw Sumo Logic agree to a $1.7 billion valued acquisition deal from Francisco Partners. This comes after a year that saw its stock drop by 40%. This marks an exciting new chapter for Sumo Logic, its parent company has a track record for acquiring successful tech and software businesses such as MyHeritage and Renaissance Learning. Exemplifying its potential in its new Francisco Partners era, Sumo Logic was named a "Challenger" company in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
22% female employees
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2019
$110m
SERIES G
Jun 2017
$76.3m
SERIES F
Total funding: $341.3m
Company benefits
- Vision & Dental Benefits
- Generous Parental Leave
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- We’re in it with our customers - We all play an essential part in providing a critical service that our customers, and we ourselves, depend on, creating an incredibly aligned relationship
- Bring light to dark - We seek to provide transparency internally and externally, because information and context produces better decisions and removes uncertainty
- One single agenda - We celebrate individuals who put the success of the team first, leave their personal agendas at the door, and work with complete integrity with everyone
- Work with heart - We respect each other, assume good intentions, embrace diverse backgrounds and thinking, and believe time with family and friends is vital to our lives and well-being
- Learning culture - We take calculated risks, learn from our mistakes, iterate and do better each time; we believe disciplined, reliable execution is essential to market leadership
Company HQ
Redwood City, CA
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Leadership
Christian Beedgen
(CTO)Previously worked for 9 years at ArcSight, holding various positions such as Lead Software Engineer, Software Development Manager and Chief Architect, Director of Engineering
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