Senior Analytics Engineer – Finance

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Senior Analytics Engineer building trusted financial data products for Kraken, a global crypto trading platform. Automating reconciliations, pipelines, dashboards, and finance close processes.

Responsibilities:

  • Build trusted financial data products using automation and AI to reduce manual work and improve the close process
  • Partner with Finance to understand workflows, identify pain points and translate business needs into data and automation solutions
  • Build and maintain automated workflows for data preparation, reconciliations, reporting and follow-ups
  • Implement controls, monitoring and exception handling
  • Build dashboards and visualizations for performance analysis, issue investigation and decision-making
  • Resolve finance data issues and reconciliation breaks with Finance, Product and Engineering
  • Address root causes and communicate progress
  • Build scalable pipelines to collect, transform and curate data from internal platforms and external systems
  • Support the design and rollout of a trusted finance data lake with definitions, ownership and quality checks
  • Improve data timeliness and enable near-real-time insights where valuable
  • Evaluate technologies, including AI-assisted automation, and prototype production-supportable solutions
  • Collaborate with Data Engineers, Finance and Platform Accounting to improve reporting and decision-making

Requirements:

  • 7+ years of experience in data analytics and data management within financial services or a regulated industry, working directly with Finance teams
  • Strong SQL and Python skills, including writing, debugging and maintaining production code
  • Solid experience with Git, merge requests, and code reviews
  • Strong software engineering practices, including testing and documentation
  • Hands-on experience building and operating pipelines and models using dbt, Spark, Airflow or comparable tools
  • Direct experience with finance or accounting data, such as reconciliations, subledgers, cost basis or month-end close
  • Experience investigating discrepancies and validating outputs with accounting stakeholders
  • Track record of owning pipelines end to end and improving reliability as requirements and systems evolve
  • Judgment and autonomy to lead complex work, navigate ambiguity and remain accountable for production outcomes
  • Experience supporting recurring financial close activities and automating manual processes
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across Engineering and Finance
  • Nice to have: experience with cryptocurrency transaction data and distributed frameworks such as Spark or PySpark

Benefits:

  • Equity program
  • Bonus program
  • Wellness allowance
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Global team and diverse workplace
  • Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently across candidates