Senior Data Analyst - Finance

About the opportunity

As a Senior Finance Data Analyst, you will empower our Finance and Business teams to make data-driven decisions that are crucial to the company’s overall strategy. You will monitor, measure, and analyze financial metrics and performance, providing actionable insights to improve financial operations and business outcomes. Your role will foster a data-driven mindset within the Finance team and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement across the organization. You will work closely with finance leaders, product managers, other analysts, and cross-functional teams to ensure that finance is a key partner in driving the company’s success. As part of the cross-functional data analytics team, you will be working across our four product domains Grow & Engage, Everyday Banking, Banking Foundations and Financial Empowerment. 

In this role, you will:

• Help us set the right goals: Develop clear and measurable financial KPIs, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.

• Be a strategic partner for Senior Leadership: Lead complex, high-impact financial analyses on a strategic level, delivering insights that influence key financial and business decisions.

• Handle stakeholders: Serve as the go-to person for finance-related data and insights. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address finance-related queries and drive alignment on financial goals.

• Evaluate initiatives: Support financial planning and analysis for strategic initiatives, including revenue forecasting, budgeting and cost optimization. Provide in-depth analysis on financial performance and deliver actionable insights.

• Contribute to self-serve data platform: Collaborate with technical teams to ensure the right data infrastructure is in place, enabling finance teams to access, visualize, and analyze financial data independently.

• Provide monitoring tools: Build and maintain financial dashboards that track key performance indicators, ensuring alignment with the company’s financial targets and OKRs.

• Improve data literacy of organisation: Lead initiatives to improve the organization’s understanding of financial data through training sessions and workshops, promoting a data-driven finance culture.

• Be part of our data-community: Collaborate with other analysts and finance professionals across the organization to share insights, tools, and best practices.

• Support some of the following finance & business team initiatives (not limited to): 

  • Partner with business teams to discover new opportunities for cost-saving or revenue-generating initiatives by identifying financial trends and business opportunities.

  • Evaluate financial impact of ongoing business initiatives and product launches through comprehensive financial modeling and data analysis.

  • Ensure all financial data is properly tracked and recorded for future reporting and analysis, working with engineering and data teams to maintain accurate data collection systems.

  • Drive the quantitative analysis of financial performance, being responsible for delivering deep insights that help drive business strategy and operational improvements.

What you need to be successful:

Background: 

4+ years of experience in a finance or data analytics role, ideally within the FinTech or financial services sector.

Skills:

• Strong understanding of financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.

• Expertise in SQL and Python/R for financial data analysis.

• Experience working with common data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker) for financial reporting.

• Solid understanding of financial statements and key financial metrics (e.g., profit & loss, balance sheet, cash flow).

• Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to distil complex financial data into actionable insights for stakeholders.

• Experience working in a high-growth startup or FinTech company, managing topics like financial reporting, cost optimization, or profitability analysis would be a plus

• Experience with quantitative financial research and data-driven decision-making would be a plus.

• Background in finance-focused product development or business partnership would be a plus

What’s in it for you:

• Accelerate your career growth by joining one of Europe’s most talked about disruptors 🚀.
• Employee benefits that range from a competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, discounts to fitness & wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation. 
• As an N26 employee you will have access to a Premium subscription on your personal N26 bank account. As well as subscriptions for friends and family members.    
• Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.  
• A high degree of autonomy and access to cutting edge technologies - all while working with a friendly team of peers of diverse nationalities, life experiences and family statuses. 
• A relocation package with visa support for those who need it.

Who we are

N26 has reimagined banking for today’s digital world. Technology and design empower everything we do and it’s how we are building the global banking platform the world loves to use.

We've eliminated physical branches, paperwork, and hidden fees for an elegant digital experience and supreme savings. Giving people the power to live and bank their way is what gets us out of bed in the morning and inspires the work that we do. 

We are headquartered in Berlin with offices in multiple cities across Europe, including Vienna and Barcelona, and a 1,500-strong team of more than 80 nationalities.

Sounds good? Apply now for this position.

Equal Opportunities:

We recognize that our strength lies in our people and the varied perspectives they bring to our workforce. We strive to build talented and diverse teams to drive our business success and empower our people to reach their full potential.

We genuinely welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, neurodiversities, and ages. We're committed to creating an inclusive workspace where everyone feels valued and respected, free from harassment and discrimination. If there's anything you need to make the application process work for you, please let us know by reaching out to [email protected]. 

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