Director – Finance

Posted on 9/15/2023

INACTIVE

51-200 employees

Efficient streaming data platform compatible with Kafka APIs

Company Overview

Redpanda Data stands out as a cost-efficient and powerful streaming data platform, offering compatibility with Kafka® APIs while reducing Kafka complexity. The company's platform significantly compresses cloud infrastructure costs and improves latencies, all without altering existing Kafka code. With a focus on performance and efficiency, Redpanda's platform is built to deliver high throughput and lower latencies, enabling new use cases beyond the capabilities of traditional streaming data platforms.

Data & Analytics

B2B

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$168.5M

Founded

2019

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Growth & Insights

Headcount

6 month growth

↑ 9%

1 year growth

↑ 37%

2 year growth

↑ 273%

Locations

Remote in USA

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

NetSuite

Salesforce

CategoriesNew

Accounting

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other related field
10+ years progressive experience in financial planning and/or finance related experience, preferably in SaaS
Experience with financial planning systems, such as Adaptive Insights or Anaplan
Experience navigating NetSuite and Salesforce
Experience leading in a rapid growth, startup environment
Desire to roll-up your sleeves, prioritize work, execute plans, and drive deliverables
Proven ability to hire, manage, and mentor high-performing teams
Collaborative working style with colleagues across the organization while confident to make and own critical decisions
Strong communicator -- able to present finance information clearly and concisely

Responsibilities

Develop and lead the annual planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes
Collaborate with stakeholders to establish financial targets and KPIs
Prepare detailed financial models and scenario analysis to support business decisions
Partner with the Accounting team in the month end close process
Prepare monthly and quarterly reporting packages for leadership team and Board of Directors
Attract, hire, and develop the Finance team as the company scales. Be a hands-on leader and mentor for the team
Identify gaps and implement financial planning systems
Lead strategic finance projects including fundraising, strategic investments and other ad-hoc projects

We are a team of doers, seasoned engineers, hackers and builders, working on the future of streaming data.

Funded by premier investors including GV and Lightspeed, Redpanda is building the streaming data platform for developers. We’re evolving streaming beyond the Apache Kafka® protocol into a unified “engine of record” that delivers a categorical reduction in complexity, wicked-fast performance, onboard Wasm transforms, and transparent tiered storage that gives consumers access to both real-time and historical data from a single API.

The Director of Finance reports to the VP of Finance and will be a key foundational member of the finance team. You will lead all aspects of financial planning, analysis and strategy at Redpanda. You will be a trusted partner to senior leaders across the company and drive informed decision making, optimize financial performance and support Redpanda’s growth initiatives by providing actionable insights and recommendations.

You Will:

Develop and lead the annual planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes
Collaborate with stakeholders to establish financial targets and KPIs
Prepare detailed financial models and scenario analysis to support business decisions
Partner with the Accounting team in the month end close process
Prepare monthly and quarterly reporting packages for leadership team and Board of Directors
Attract, hire, and develop the Finance team as the company scales. Be a hands-on leader and mentor for the team
Identify gaps and implement financial planning systems
Lead strategic finance projects including fundraising, strategic investments and other ad-hoc projects

You Have:

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other related field
10+ years progressive experience in financial planning and/or finance related experience, preferably in SaaS
Experience with financial planning systems, such as Adaptive Insights or Anaplan
Experience navigating NetSuite and Salesforce
Experience leading in a rapid growth, startup environment
Desire to roll-up your sleeves, prioritize work, execute plans, and drive deliverables
Proven ability to hire, manage, and mentor high-performing teams
Collaborative working style with colleagues across the organization while confident to make and own critical decisions
Strong communicator -- able to present finance information clearly and concisely

U.S. base salary range for this role is $180,000 - $200,000 (CO, TX) and $190,000 - $220,000 (CA, NY). Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate’s job-related skills, location, experience, relevant

Redpanda is used by Fortune 1000 enterprises pushing hundreds of terabytes a day, as well as by the solo dev prototyping a React application on her laptop. Think of it as a streaming data API platform that scales with you from the smallest projects to petabytes of data distributed across the globe.
Join Redpanda if you’d enjoy being part of a fast-moving, 100% remote organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness.