About Uphold
Uphold is a financial technology company that believes on-chain services are the future of finance. It provides modern infrastructure for on-chain payments, banking and investments. Offering Consumer Services, Business Services and Institutional Trading, Uphold makes pioneering financial services easy and trusted for millions of customers in more than 140 countries.
Uphold strips away the complexity and lack of transparency to open up Web3 finance for everyone.
To learn more about Uphold, please visit https://uphold.com.
The opportunity:
Uphold is looking for a Data Analyst to join our Data Team and work very closely with our Finance & Accounting and Neobanking Team. This is a fascinating opportunity where you’ll get to join a team of engineers, scientists, and analysts who are passionate about data and technology with a great sense of collaboration and responsibility.
You’ll be responsible for data-driven insights that enable our Neobanking efforts, by optimizing their processes and decisions, as well as building data-enabled solutions for the challenges we face. You will gather, organize, and aggregate large data sets to produce meaningful business insight and solve critical challenges that give us a competitive edge. At Uphold, you will be able to work in a very fertile environment to bring your ideas to life, while integrated in a fast-paced industry.
What you’ll be doing primarily:
- Conduct in-depth data explorations and analysis to be consumed by Senior Management, Finance, Accounting, Risk, and Product teams to enhance targeting, increase revenue, and allocate resources more efficiently.
- Translate business questions and objectives into concrete metrics and KPIs.
- Implement and automate dashboards and reports that feed on data to support decision-making.
- Develop dashboards to support the monitoring of new features and new network integrations launched.
- Collaborate closely with Finance & Accounting and Product teams to identify data-enabled solutions to challenges such as cash flow management, reconciliation, risk assessment, and regulatory reporting.
- Build and communicate compelling financial data stories—clearly and concisely—both orally and via dashboards, visualizations, and reports that highlight profitability, risk, compliance, and growth opportunities.
- Design customized interfaces to expose internal data to key stakeholders.
- Guarantee data quality on both operational systems and offline datasets.
- Help data engineers with the design, implementation, and maintenance of data pipelines.
- Design and conduct A/B(/n) tests to evaluate and continuously improve neobanking services and products.
- Develop domain expertise on digitized financial assets to bring an advanced level of understanding to analyses.
- Contribute to the definition of overarching processes and practices across the Data Team and the rest of the company.
- Evangelize a data-driven culture throughout Uphold’s multiple business units.
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as mathematics, economics, statistics, informatics, data science, or engineering.
- Strong knowledge of probability, descriptive, and inferential statistics.
- Strong knowledge of Python and SQL.
- Experience working with data warehousing solutions and leveraging data models in a cloud-based environment.
- Proven ability to transform the results of complex data transformation procedures into concrete decisions and actions.
- Ability to lead small projects from conception and design through implementation to delivery and communication.
- Drive to grow as a well-rounded data analyst in quantitative methods, software engineering, communication, and business.
- Creativity, curiosity, and a growth mindset.
- Team player with the ability to work within cross-functional teams.
- Value and results-oriented, with a keen eye for quality of deliverables.
- Fluent written and oral English skills.
Bonus if you have:
- Advanced degree preferred.
- Previous experience in Finance, Accounting, and (neo)banking.
- Experience working with database systems such as PostgreSQL and Snowflake.
- Fluency in cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and other digitized financial instruments.
- Community talks, certifications, and/or blog posts on your areas of interest.
- Open-source project contributions of any kind, such as tools developed to solve specific problems you’ve had or fixing issues on existing projects.
Importantly, if you’re looking for a senior role with us, you will have achieved many of the things above while also providing mentorship to others, and have engaged in public speaking opportunities.
What we have to offer you:
- An amazing work environment in a company that continues to grow, driven by extraordinary and passionate people who keep innovating and challenging more each day.
- An international team, in a cutting-edge field, working on the most fascinating projects.
- Growth and career opportunities, and the chance to be proactive and creative.
- A flexible and enthusiastic work environment that offers you snacks, coffee, and other great benefits.
- Open and transparent culture - we get together every week to share updates and strategic plans while getting to know each other informally over food and drinks.
- Interesting events that keep you connected with the team and celebrate our success.
Salary: $139,000+ DOE, + Bonus + Benefits
Be part of a great company that is revolutionizing financial services. Apply now!
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