8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) believes that CX limits were meant to be shattered. We connect people and organizations through seamless communication on the industry's most integrated platform for Customer Experience—combining Contact Center, Unified Communications, and CPaaS APIs. The 8x8® Platform for CX integrates AI at every level to enable personalized customer journeys, drive operational excellence and insights, and facilitate team collaboration.

We help customer experience and IT leaders become the heartbeat of their organizations, empowering them to unlock the potential of every interaction. With one platform, one ecosystem, and one data model, you can turn every team into a customer-facing team and unify your CX to conquer the complexity.

8x8 is seeking a highly motivated professional with exceptional analytical skills to join us as a Financial Data Analyst partnering with our Sales and Marketing teams. We help senior business leaders frame decisions quantitatively, including investment and strategic priorities.

The role of FP&A is a true partnership with leaders to drive the decision-making process through supporting business analysis, forecasting, and reporting. You will identify business drivers to update and build financial models that fuel investment and management decisions. You'll be a trusted thought partner, joining forecast reviews, deal desk, capacity planning, resource allocation, and long-range planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in defining, evaluating, developing, and deploying new forecasts and budgets in Pigment.
• Use creativity and technical skills to locate data sources, review, validate, and identify trends, patterns, and anomalies, and use findings to develop strategies to reduce costs, improve processes and practices, and increase efficiency, quality, security, and consistency.
• Define and capture the metrics to measure the impact and success of these improvements.
• Design and develop actionable dashboards, scorecards, reports, and data visualizations using Pigment, Tableau, Power BI, and if all else fails, Excel.
• Drive current quarter revenue modeling, leveraging your skills to organize data sets for cohort analysis.
• Contribute to our 3-statement financial model, including integrating data from various platforms, automation of workflows, and making model assumption improvements
• Support quarterly budgeting and strategic planning through collaborating with cross-functional leaders.
• Contribute to strategic projects focused on (1) gross profit and unit economics by product family, (2) maturing the long-range forecast of both revenue and expense items, and (3) modeling investment opportunities with a data-driven approach.
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand the business and make appropriate recommendations on using insightful key metrics and forecasting analytics to help solve business needs.
• Ensure continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for improvement and delivering solutions.

The Successful Candidate Will Have

• 2+ years of experience in corporate finance, investment banking, or private equity
• Proficiency with building things in Pigment and Tableau
• Demonstrated attention to detail and analytical skills
• Experience with key business financial statements and a three-statement model
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, mathematics, statistics, business administration or other relevant field that demonstrates quantitative orientation
• Experience querying and analyzing data using SQL
• FP&A experience with a demonstrated aptitude for learning data systems
• Experience or exposure in forecasting trends with consumption models, multi-layered scenario planning, and ad hoc analysis
• High level of intellectual curiosity with a focus on generating results
• The highest personal and professional standards of integrity and ethics
• Ability to work and communicate across the organization to obtain and understand data and stakeholders’ perspectives
• Proactively make recommendations for improvements with consideration to internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrated accountability for agreed-upon deliverables and timetables
• Must possess the ability to maintain confidentiality at all times as this position will be exposed to highly sensitive and restricted information
• Experience with ASC 606 and supporting systems for SaaS products