Finance & Strategy - Product Analyst

  • Full-time

Company Description

We believe everyone should be able to participate and thrive in the economy. So we’re building tools that make commerce easier and more accessible to all. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven’t stopped there. Our new reader helps our sellers accept chip cards and NFC payments, and our Cash app lets people pay each other back instantly. We’re empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food truck with a delivery option, helping the ice cream shop pay its employees, and giving the burgeoning coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. Let’s shorten the distance between having an idea and making a living from it. And make it easier for customers to shop and pay at their favorite businesses. We’re here to help sellers of all sizes start, run, and grow their business—and helping them grow their business is good business for everyone.

Job Description

Square’s Finance & Strategy Team (F&S) is responsible for improving strategic and financial decision-making across the company. We maintain the company’s operating model, analyze deals and capital allocation decisions, and think a lot about strategy.

Our team’s core value is trust – we build it by making what is complex simple, and we do it with elegant models that are both accurate and easy-to-understand. Business partners appreciate our insight and trust us to help them solve difficult problems. At Square, we believe that good ideas can come from anywhere, and we’ll trust you to collaborate with others, form intelligent opinions, and present your thoughts to decision-makers and the executive team. Successful Finance & Strategy members quickly become experts on new projects and build trust through their insights and analysis.

You will:

As the Finance & Strategy (F&S), Payments & Data Analyst, you will drive technical analysis to inform better decisions within our Payments business. As the F&S expert on data, you understand the upstream mechanics which impact our payments business. You will combine your technical prowess and business intuition to drive insight and influence business decisions.

Data Analysis & Forecasting

Leverage tools like SQL, Excel, and Tableau to understand complex relationships, answer business questions, and communicate actionable recommendations. Work with the Payments team to forecast and optimize efficiency in transaction costs and payment acceptance. Use your expertise and insights to predict trends and build forecast models.

Reporting & Infrastructure

Partner with analytics and business intelligence teams in building out reliable and scalable infrastructure to empower decision makers with timely and relevant metrics. Develop self-service tools (Tableau dashboards, ETLs, etc.) to systematically monitor transaction costs and the health of our payments business.

Qualifications

You have:

  • Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Math, Economics, Statistics, Finance, or another relevant field.

  • 2-4 years of relevant experience in data analysis and/or financial modeling (e.g. investment banking, and/or private equity)

  • Excellent proficiency in Excel, model design and driver-based analyses

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Consistent track record of success and career progression

  • A strong passion for Square’s mission, interest in the payments industry


Even better:

  • Experience with SQL, comfort with working with large data sets. While not required, experience with Tableau is a plus.

  • Experience / understanding of the payments industry is a plus, but not necessary


Additional Information

At Square, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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