Datadog’s Finance team partners with stakeholders across the organization, providing commercial, operational, and analytical support to ensure that Datadog’s business continues its rapid and efficient growth.
We are seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Manager, Accounting to join our growing accounting team. This role is an excellent opportunity for an accounting professional to play a key part in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, a solid understanding of accounting principles, and a passion for ensuring accurate financial reporting.
As the Manager, Accounting, you will be responsible for overseeing various accounting processes, ensuring compliance with US GAAP, managing the month-end close process, and supporting external audits. You will collaborate cross-functionally with teams across the company, contributing to the continuous improvement of processes and internal controls.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of two accountants, fostering a collaborative and high performing team environment
• Own key areas of the monthly, quarterly and annual financial close, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting in accordance with US GAAP
• Manage the preparation of financial statements, general ledger reconciliations, and monthly account analyses
• Ability to provide clear concise answers related to accounting variances and fluctuations to management, FP&A and other internal stakeholders
• Serve as a key point of contact for the year-end and quarterly financial statement audit requests, including internal audit and SOX requests
• Identify opportunities for operational efficiencies and lead the implementation of process improvements to standardize and streamline accounting workflows
• Assist in the preparation and filing of the external financial statements and footnotes filed on a quarterly and annual basis (10-Q and 10-K’s)
• Partner with other departments to understand and support business processes, ensure proper accounting, and resolve reconciling differences
• Support ad hoc initiatives and projects, including system implementations, automation, and ad-hoc financial analyses
• Research and document the Company’s technical accounting issues; present and resolve the Company’s positions for critical accounting issues with external auditors
• Provide guidance and training to direct reports to promote team development and growth