Senior Data Analyst, Finance and Payments

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Data Analyst to support the Finance and Central Operations organization and help build the data infrastructure, reporting, and analytics that power financial and operational decision-making.

This role combines analytics, data engineering, and applied data science, with a strong focus on translating complex operational data into reliable financial insights. While reporting within the Finance team, this role will also partner closely with the Payment Operations team, helping improve the data, controls, and automation behind high-volume payment processes.

This role requires close collaboration with our San Francisco-based team and availability during core U.S. business hours.

Desired Capabilities

• 3-6+ years of experience in data analytics, analytics engineering, data engineering, financial analytics, or a related field.
• Build and maintain scalable Finance and Operations dashboards and reporting across revenue, project expenses, margins, cash flows, payments, and other key financial and operational metrics.
• Develop automated data pipelines across systems that bring together information from financial, operational, and business systems.
• Identify and execute opportunities to automate existing financial reporting processes, reducing manual effort and improving the consistency and reliability of recurring deliverables.
• Contribute to the buildout of finance data infrastructure, automate recurring reporting, and reduce reliance on manual, spreadsheet-based processes.
• Partner with Payment Operations to build reporting and analytics around payment volumes, accuracy, exceptions, disputes, and processing performance.
• Develop automated reconciliations and controls to identify missing, duplicate, incorrect, or unusual payments.
• Support the investigation and resolution of payment discrepancies through data analysis.
• Help improve and automate payment workflows, including data validation and exception management.
• Partner with Finance and Operations stakeholders to translate business questions into data models, dashboards, and actionable analysis.
• Establish documentation, data definitions, and controls that improve the reliability and auditability of Finance and Payments reporting.
• Experience with Python or another analytical programming language.

Extra Credit

• Advanced SQL skills and experience working with large datasets.
• Experience building dashboards and reporting using tools such as Hex, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, or similar.
• Familiarity with modern data warehouses and transformation tools such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or similar.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data quality, reconciliation, and automation.
• Ability to understand financial and operational processes and translate them into technical solutions.
• Strong analytical mindset and ability to independently investigate discrepancies and ambiguous data problems.
• Experience working with Finance teams strongly preferred.
• Experience with payment operations, high-volume contractor payments, or other transaction-heavy environments is a plus.

We Offer

• Handshake delivers benefits that help you feel supported and thrive at work and in life.
• The below benefits are for full-time US employees.
• Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
• Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching

Benefits

Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching:

• Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
• Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
• Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
• Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
• Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses