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Business Intelligence Analyst

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San Francisco, CA · CA - ON - Toronto - Remote · 3+ years experience · Remote · Posted Sep 29, 2026

At a glance

Experience
3+ years experience
Workplace
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CA · CA - ON - Toronto - Remote

About the role

  • You will join the Recon and Reporting team, which owns post-transaction systems responsible for reconciling money, tracing fund flows, and meeting tax and regulatory reporting obligations.
  • As a Senior Analyst on the team, you will independently own reconciliation and reporting workstreams end to end, ensuring financial accuracy and trust given high transaction volumes.

Responsibilities

  • Independently prioritize, design, develop, and deploy end-to-end reconciliation and reporting solutions: matching logic, break dashboards, exception queues, settlement summaries, and standardized journals that feed downstream accounting, audit, and regulatory processes.
  • Own time-sensitive daily, weekly, and monthly reconciliations across card networks, banking partners, processors, and internal transaction and ledger data, including full ownership of discrepancy management from detection through root cause, corrective action, and control improvement.
  • Translate ambiguous business, finance, and regulatory needs into concrete measurement systems: define and roll out key metrics for the reconciliation and reporting domain and ensure stakeholders interpret them in the correct context.
  • Serve as the subject matter expert on settlement, funding, and money-movement flows; field questions on transaction lifecycles, data models, and the reconciliation tech stack from stakeholders and leadership.
  • Own the design, development, and documentation of automated SQL-based reporting using best practices, navigating new and unfamiliar datasets to answer complex questions about the flow of funds.
  • Work independently or partner with data engineering to design, build, validate, troubleshoot, and maintain the datasets and pipelines that power reconciliation and reporting, making sound trade-offs between accuracy, implementation effort, and complexity.
  • Proactively identify control gaps, revenue leakage, manual toil, and upstream data-quality issues; drive the automation and process improvements that fix them, and monitor daily settlement and banking activity for irregularities.
  • Own relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, and Compliance; directly influence the priorities, decisions, and roadmap of the team and its partners.
  • Lead month-end close support for the domain: reconciliation reporting, standardized summaries, and audit-ready documentation, including supporting internal and external audits.
  • Define business requirements and test plans for system changes, validate new processes and reconciliation capabilities before deployment, and partner with Engineering and Data teams to resolve bugs and ship enhancements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of related experience in reconciliation, settlement, payment operations, accounting, or finance analytics with a Bachelor's degree (Finance, Accounting, Economics, a quantitative field, or similar); or 3+ years with a Master's degree; or equivalent work experience.
  • Expert-level SQL, including owning the design, development, and documentation of automated SQL-based reporting, and the ability to navigate new datasets and answer complex questions independently.
  • Demonstrated experience independently owning reconciliation, settlement, or financial reporting workstreams end to end, including defining metrics and driving them to adoption.
  • Strong knowledge of accounting principles, double-entry concepts, and the mechanics of money movement, with the judgment to question the correctness and completeness of financial data.
  • Experience partnering with data engineering (or working independently) to design, build, validate, and maintain data pipelines, with the ability to make sound technical trade-offs.
  • Advanced Excel proficiency (complex formulas, pivot tables) and experience with reconciliation tooling and banking portals.
  • Excellent communication skills: able to own senior stakeholder relationships, present findings and recommendations, and drive clear next steps in areas without clear ownership.
  • Track record of proactively identifying and delivering process improvements and automation in a deadline-driven, high-accuracy environment.

Preferred qualifications

  • Deep experience with card-network reconciliation and settlement (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover), including network settlement, clearing, and report file formats.
  • Strong familiarity with funds-transfer processes and rails (ACH, wire, SWIFT, RTP/FedNow) and the payments ecosystem: merchants, acquirers, issuers, processors, and program banks.
  • Scripting skills (Python or similar) for data analysis and process automation.
  • Experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery) and BI platforms (e.g., Looker, Tableau), including building governed reporting layers with SLAs.
  • Exposure to interchange and fee/cost reconciliation, revenue-leakage detection, and tax or regulatory reporting regimes.
  • Experience supporting audits, internal controls, or SOX-adjacent processes, and mentoring junior analysts.
  • Curiosity about payments products and financial markets.

Benefits

  • Remote work
  • Medical insurance
  • Flexible time off
  • Retirement savings plans
  • Modern family planning

Workplace

  • Distributed team since day one with office and remote options.

Skills

  • SQL
  • Excel
  • Python
  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery
  • Looker
  • Tableau

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