Head of FP&A, Data & Analytics

Head of FP&A, Data & Analytics

We are looking for a Data Analytics leader who is passionate about data, highly organized, analytical, and can coach and develop a high-performing team. This role involves leading cross-functional projects, building a data community, managing a high-performing team of data analysts and modeling specialists, and providing support to a large and evolving FP&A organization with increasingly complex data and analytics requirements.

The FP&A team is a hardworking and collaborative team with a mix of technology industry, consulting and financial services background. We encourage decision-making at every level and highly value an open-minded approach and organizational openness. We work closely with business leaders across multiple functions including product, GTM and finance to support the Company's continued growth. You'll join a team that is not only smart, motivated, passionate about Atlassian's products and customers, but also fun to work with.

North America Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $207,400 - $276,500

Zone B: $186,600 - $248,800

Zone C: $172,100 - $229,500

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.


In this role, you will:

  • Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our business and help solve the business's biggest challenges

  • Serve as the subject matter expert for Finance data, systems, and reporting

  • Drive finance-led initiatives and collaborate with cross-functional teams to inform, influence, and execute strategic decisions

  • Empower the data capability and literacy across the Finance group, with a view to drive the team to self-serve data needs

  • Employ storytelling techniques to effectively convey insights across various audiences, including company leadership teams

  • Support your team's professional development by coaching them in technical, analytical, interpersonal, and managerial skills


On your first day, we'll expect you to have:

  • 10+ years of BI & Data experience, with experience partnering with Data Engineering to source and stage data.

  • 6+ years of experience managing teams, including as a manager of managers.

  • Experience scaling and developing a team of data scientists, with individual contributors to group manager-level direct reports.

  • Previous experience working at a strategic level to devise and roll out an analytical roadmap

  • Prior demonstrated experience working in and reviewing code in SQL and at least one other data science programming language (e.e. Python, R).

  • Extensive track record of influencing business strategy and driving change across organizational boundaries through clear and compelling communication of data-driven insights and analyses.

It's great, but not required of you have:

  • Exposure to working with planning tools (e.g., Anaplan) and finance ERP systems (e.g., Oracle Fusion)

  • Technology or Software / SaaS industry experience

  • A degree in Business, Statistics, Finance, or a related analytical field

  • Comfort with structuring and coaching others to work through open-ended business questions through analytics

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