Whatnot: Buy, Sell, Go Live
Data Scientist, Finance
Location
California
Posted
43 days ago
Salary
$194K - $215K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Data Scientist, Finance
Whatnot
• Partner closely across the business to find improvements/opportunities and influence decisions using data analytics methodologies and tools. • Act as the data owner for Finance functions, including but not limited to accounting, tax, strategic finance, profitability, and the executive office. • Build production-quality data products, dashboards, notebooks, and actionable KPIs to convey critical financial insights. • Drive incremental improvements in contribution margin by deeply understanding business drivers and analyzing cross-functional initiatives. • Collaborate on data and analytics engineering work to ensure financial datasets are enriched, reliable, and scalable.
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in the Data Analytics/Science field
- Background with some form of Consulting, Fintech, Payments, or Finance
- Expertise in data engineering and analytics engineering
- Strong background in data tooling and visualization, with a firm grasp of business intelligence tools
- Expert-level SQL skills for data analysis, reporting, and dashboarding
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Finance, or a related technical field
- Excellent verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex financial-data concepts to both technical and non-technical collaborators.
Benefits
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Work From Home Support
- Home office setup allowance
- Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
- Care benefits
- Monthly allowance for wellness
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- Parental Leave
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.
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