Financial Data Analyst Lisboa

Financial Data Analyst
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

What do we do?

Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of
- related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better.

We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 5000 software sellers in 245 territories globally.

The Role:

Working closely with Paddle’s finance team, the core of the role will be supporting the Finance Operations Manager in making sure all financial data is accurate and available in real time.

As Paddle is scaling, we’re constantly developing and delivering new products for our customers, as well as rapidly growing the number of transactions through our platform each month globally. In order to maintain high standards in financial reporting, these changes in products and increase in transactions must be monitored closely, and the reporting accurately reflected.

The Analyst will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and improving a series of reports across accounting, tax, and treasury, as well as supporting the team through annual audits and providing data analysis and insight for key stakeholders within the company. They will be able to utilise our data stack and work with our Data Engineering team to ensure the Finance team’s needs are met and the quality of, and access to, our reporting is high.

The role will be
- paced and can include changing priorities due to the team’s needs.

What you'll do:

• Work closely with the Finance teams to produce and maintain a series of key reports needed for Paddle’s financial reporting
  • Work on scoped briefs under the guidance of the Finance Operations Manager and other Finance Managers
  • Build and work with Data Engineering to build out the reporting infrastructure across our BI tools and data stack
• Become a subject matter expert on Paddle financial data and the tools we use.
• Contribute to strategic planning by recognising areas of weakness or upcoming change, and efficiency improvements in our reporting across:
  • Global tax filings
  • Month-end reporting across sales and revenue
• Continually evolve our data collection, processing, and reporting structures through scoping new tools and methods to help the Finance team support the wider business

We'd love to hear from you:

• You have strong commercial experience in relational database structures, SQL, and Excel.
• Experience with Pigment is a plus.
• Working knowledge of Dbt and Snowflake is a plus.
• You have experience working within a financial organisation or with finance teams.
• You have experience working with large data sets.
• You’re a great problem solver.
• You have strong data visualisation and presentation techniques.
• You have exposure to BI and ETL tools, such as Sisense, Looker, Tableau, and Power
  BI.
• You have experience working for startups/scale-ups or financial organisations, and can work in an unstructured environment.

Everyone is welcome at Paddle

At Paddle, we’re committed to removing invisible barriers, both for our customers and within our own teams. We recognise and celebrate that every Paddler is unique and we welcome every individual perspective. As an inclusive employer, we don’t care if, or where, you studied, what you look like, or where you’re from. We’re more interested in your craft, curiosity, passion for learning, and what you’ll add to our culture. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every part of the job ad, especially if you’re part of an underrepresented group.

Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to better support you through the application process and in the workplace. We will do everything we can to support any accommodations needed. We’re committed to building a diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their authentic self. Let’s grow together.

Why you’ll love working at Paddle

We are a diverse, growing group of Paddlers across the globe who pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative, and respectful culture.

We live and breathe our values, which are:

Paddle for others

Paddle together

Paddle simply

We offer a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, retirement plans, private healthcare, and
- being initiatives.

We are a ‘digital-first’ company, which means you can work remotely, from one of our stylish hubs, or even a bit of both! We offer all team members unlimited holidays and enhanced parental leave. We invest in learning and will help you with your personal development via constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning fund, and regular internal and external training.