Senior Analytics Engineer - Finance

The role

You will build trusted financial data products using automation and AI to improve the close process. You will work at the intersection of data engineering and accounting to create reliable pipelines, models, and automated reconciliations.

What you will do

• Partner with Finance to understand workflows and translate business needs into data and automation solutions.
• Build and maintain automated workflows for data preparation, reconciliations, reporting and follow-ups.
• Build intuitive dashboards and visualizations for stakeholders.
• Resolve finance data issues and reconciliation breaks with Finance, Product and Engineering.
• Build scalable, reliable pipelines to collect, transform and curate data.
• Support the design and rollout of a trusted finance data lake.
• Improve data timeliness for near-real-time insights.
• Evaluate new technologies and prototype solutions to Finance needs.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data analytics and data management within financial services or a regulated industry, working directly with Finance teams.
• Strong SQL and Python skills, including writing, debugging and maintaining production code.
• Solid experience with Git, merge requests, and code reviews.
• Strong software engineering practices, including testing and documentation.
• Hands-on experience building and operating pipelines and models using dbt, Spark, Airflow or comparable tools.
• Direct experience with finance or accounting data, such as reconciliations, subledgers, cost basis or month-end close.
• Track record of owning pipelines end to end.
• Judgment and autonomy to lead complex work and navigate ambiguity.
• Experience supporting recurring financial close activities.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate across Engineering and Finance.

Nice to have

• Experience with cryptocurrency transaction data and how digital-asset activity flows into financial records and reconciliations.
• Experience processing large volumes of financial transactions using distributed frameworks such as Spark or PySpark.

Before you apply

• We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process.

About the company

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions.