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As a Senior Financial Analyst, you'll build complex financial models, support leadership with insights, and drive continuous improvement in finance processes while partnering with various teams to inform strategic decisions.
What We’re Building
Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023!
If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases.
Who We Are
We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers.
How We Work
We are a fully distributed company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote
Our Finance team is small, mighty, and deeply embedded in shaping Honeycomb’s next stage of growth. As a Sr. Financial Analyst, you’ll operate as a strategic partner across GTM, R&D, and G&A—diving into complex forecasting, strategic modeling, and supporting leadership with insights that drive high-quality decisions. You’ll influence how we plan, invest, and scale, working in a fast-moving environment where your analysis directly impacts our revenue trajectory, operational performance, and long-term planning. This role isn’t about maintaining models—it’s about helping steer the business.
What you’ll do in the role
- Assist in Honeycomb corporate P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow forecasts and annual plan, understanding important levers and driving top-line growth balanced with profitability
- Work across the broader team by collaborating cross functionally with business leaders, accounting and sales operations to help improve our monthly processes
- Assist in running month-end close with accounting team, summarizing variances from forecasts and communicating to executive members
- Track business performance and KPI trends against operating plans and prepare budget to actual reporting for management and other key stakeholders, including board of director’s reporting
- Help implement and maintain financial planning tool, data validation and upkeep of forecast models
- Improve financial processes and identify areas to implement system improvements to support our growth as we scale
- Support the finance team on special projects , ad-hoc analysis and requests as needed with a focus on improving processes and scalability
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or comparable field.
- 5+ years of FP&A, strategic planning, P&L management or related experience, with a focus on software and technology
- Expert in Excel and Google Sheets; comfortable with different modeling techniques and shortcuts, ability to develop analysis and models that influence decisions
- Able to hit deadlines and work in fast paced environment
- Experience using ERP and financial planning systemsAble to work in ambiguous environment but still drive results, solve complex problems, exercise judgement based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
- Very strong quantitative skills, a good sense of how to dissect problems and a strong ability to “connect the dots” – e.g. understand how pieces of data interact with each other or how one finding would influence the result of another analysis
- Deep expertise in SaaS, ASC 606 revenue recognition rules
- Familiarity with BI tools, SQL a plus
Base Salary based on level of experience
$127,500—$150,000 USD
What you'll get when you join the Hive:
- A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
- It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
- Time to recharge - Unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical
- A distributed-first mindset and culture (really!)
- Home office, co-working, and internet stipend
- Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood
- Annual development allowance
- And much more...
Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.
Phishing and Recruitment Scam Warning:
We take your security seriously. Please be aware that recruitment scams are increasingly common and scammers may create email addresses or websites to impersonate Honeycomb employees. To help protect you:
- All communications will come from an @honeycomb.io email address
- We occasionally work with external recruiting agencies. These partners will use legitimate business email addresses—never personal accounts like Gmail or Yahoo.
- Our recruiting process will never ask you to provide financial or sensitive personal information, including but not limited to:
- Social security or tax identification numbers
- Credit card numbers
- Bank account information
Diversity & Accommodations:
We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace—where people of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and abilities are welcomed, valued, and supported. We recognize that there is no single path to success and embrace nontraditional career journeys and diverse perspectives as key to building stronger, more innovative teams.
We strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. If you require accommodations or accessible formats at any point during our hiring process, please let your recruiter know.
As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback.
Privacy Notice:
If you apply for a job at Honeycomb and your application is unsuccessful (or you withdraw from the process or decline our offer), Honeycomb will retain your information after your application for a period of time in accordance with local laws. We retain this information for various reasons, including in case we face a legal challenge in respect of a recruitment decision, to consider you for other current or future jobs at Honeycomb, and to help us better understand, analyze and improve our recruitment processes.
For more information regarding our privacy practices please see the Honeycomb Privacy Notice.
If you do not want us to retain your information for consideration for other roles, or want us to update it, please contact [email protected]. Please note, however, that we may retain some information if required by law or as necessary to protect ourselves from legal claims.
Top Skills
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