We started with a simple idea—that everyone should be able to accept credit cards—and we’ve been rethinking buying and selling ever since.

For sellers, we’re creating one cohesive service to run your entire business, from a register in your pocket to analytics on your laptop. For buyers, we’re making it faster to order from the businesses you love and more fun to pay your friends back.

Buying and selling sound like simple things—and they should be. Somewhere along the way, they got complicated. We’re working hard to make commerce easy for everyone.

Finance & Strategy is responsible for enabling and improving strategic and financial decision-making across the company. We maintain the company’s operating models, analyze deals and capital allocation decisions, and think a lot about strategy (e.g. go-to-market, pricing).

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 the executive team.

The Product Analyst Role

The Product Analyst will be the finance lead for multiple software products. You will partner closely with Product Leads in the development of emerging products. You will develop an intimate understanding of the industry, product strategy, and levers of growth. Ultimately you will be instrumental in the success of your products.

You will also be responsible for the financial cost planning and analysis for the Engineering and Product organization - the largest organization in the company. This involves working closely with the Engineering organization, Corporate FP&A, and Accounting.

Skills / Focus Areas

This role requires considerable cross-functional partnering. You are expected to become an expert in the products’ that you cover.

Strategic Analysis

You use data to analyze key trends and drive strategic decision-making. On any given business decision, you have an opinion on what the right answer is, and you support your opinion with data and analysis. You make your case to leadership and are ultimately responsible for providing the right business insight to ensure the company gets to the right outcome.

Business Partnering / Strategic Decision Support

We are the analytic advisor to our business partners. Responsibilities will include analytics initiatives such as business/economic/financial modeling, product/competitive landscape benchmarking, pricing design/analysis, and other data-driven analysis.

Forecasting

You are responsible for forecasting revenue and expense for your areas of product coverage. You have intimate knowledge of the data available and actively mine it from our SQL databases. You build models in Excel to understand complex relationships between variables and gain insight. You should know better than anyone how much money we’re making, and how much we have to spend.

Financial Planning & Reporting

We have an intimate understanding of Square’s business. We gain this by regularly partnering with business functions (e.g. Finance/Accounting, Business Intelligence, Marketing, Products, International, and others) to analyze and report on the financial impact of decisions across the company. We support our business partners to manage their budgets and ensure they have resource allocations to invest properly behind key initiatives.

Prepare to be tested on your finance, analytical/math, and modeling skills.

● Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other relevant field.

● 3-6 years of relevant experience with financial modeling (e.g. investment banking, strategic consulting).

● Excellent proficiency in Excel. While not required, experience with SQL and Tableau is a plus.

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

● Consistent track record of success and career progression.

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A strong passion for Square’s mission of economic empowerment.

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.