Full-Time

FP&a Manager

Product/R&D & Cloud Strategy

Posted on 8/30/2024

BigPanda

BigPanda

201-500 employees

AI platform for automating IT operations

Enterprise Software
AI & Machine Learning

Compensation Overview

$133k - $165kAnnually

+ Bonus + Equity

Senior, Expert

San Carlos, CA, USA

Remote work is an option, but in-office presence in Redwood City, CA is required.

Category
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
Finance & Banking
Required Skills
Salesforce
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or comparable quantitative field
  • 8+ years of FP&A, Finance, or related experience (e.g Investment Banking, Management Consulting), with a focus on technology; familiarity with the software industry and SaaS business-models is a must.
  • Experience working with Product/R&D/DevOps organizations, managing complex budgets, knowledge of best practices, and building processes for scale.
  • Experience in developing, maintaining and enhancing various types of capacity and forecast models, such as SaaS infrastructure costs, Product/R&D productivity & efficiency KPI’s.
  • Superb financial modeling skills and quantitative analysis experience, with ability to distill complex subject matter into curated executive summaries.
  • Ideally experience operating and working with systems such as Adaptive, Netsuite, Salesforce, BambooHR and Snowflake.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with constant change; agility, flexibility, and capacity to balance multiple priorities at once.
  • Resourceful and not afraid to roll up your sleeves.
Responsibilities
  • Partner with the Product/R&D and DevOps organizations to develop capacity models, forecasts, manage budgets, build reports and analysis to understand, influence and lead strategic discussions regarding business-critical optimizations, growth investments and tradeoffs, building new product business cases and P&Ls and involvement in M&A casework and due diligence.
  • Participate in month end close processes and prepare content for monthly analytical presentations, providing executive leadership with strategic insights that shows further understanding of expense levers, organizational efficiencies, and return on investment.
  • Manage headcount and overall expense budgets by engaging with various operations teams across the organization to forecast expenses within 2% accuracy, explaining material variances against expectations and developing recommendations based on data driven insights.
  • Build relationships with important partners and senior leaders across the organization to strengthen processes, cross functional dependencies, produce insights and be the connective tissue between cross functional teams and organizations.

BigPanda offers an AI platform that automates IT Operations (ITOps) by identifying critical alerts and reducing alert noise, which helps teams detect issues before they escalate. Its Open Integration Hub consolidates various monitoring tools into one interface, providing operational awareness and optimizing workflows for ITOps, Network Operations Centers (NOC), and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams. This proactive approach minimizes downtime and shortens issue resolution times, ultimately saving costs for businesses. The goal of BigPanda is to deliver quick value to clients by enhancing system reliability and availability.

Company Stage

Series E

Total Funding

$302.5M

Headquarters

Redwood City, California

Founded

2012

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

1%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Generative AI capabilities enhance BigPanda's Automated Incident Analysis solutions.
  • The rise of hybrid cloud environments increases demand for BigPanda's cloud-native platform.
  • Digital transformation trends boost investment in AI-driven IT operations solutions like BigPanda.

What critics are saying

  • Competitors' rapid adoption of generative AI could erode BigPanda's market position.
  • New CRO Tom Melzl's strategies might disrupt existing client relationships.
  • Reliance on key clients like Intel and Workday poses revenue risks if they switch providers.

What makes BigPanda unique

  • BigPanda uses Open Box Machine Learning to automate incident management effectively.
  • The platform reduces IT alert noise by over 95%, enhancing operational efficiency.
  • BigPanda's Open Integration Hub centralizes IT monitoring and management for better insights.

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