Data Analyst, Risk
- Full-time
- Alternate Location: St. Louis, United States
Company Description
Job Description
In Portfolio Analytics at Square, you'll build processes to prevent fraudulent and other high-risk activity across Square's evolving platform of products. You will also directly contribute to reports that inform senior executives and board members' understanding of risk performance. We are looking for a Data Analyst to join our team, which is directly responsible for managing Square's risk portfolio.
The ideal Data Analyst will be eager to explore far and wide, getting familiar with many elements of Square's business while serving as a partner for our fastest growing products and teams. You won't just help Square's products reduce their risk, you'll help them to grow in a way that's healthy for both our entire ecosystem of existing products and brand new products that our teams are building. You crave new problems, flourish amongst remarkable colleagues, value candor, and love learning. You're an expert in analytics and designing powerful data visualizations, but also create compelling narratives for the stories that your data empowers.
You Will:
- Use SQL, Looker, and other tools for ad-hoc analytical projects which will power real-time and long-term solutions for business problems
- Craft compelling, data-driven recommendations for strategic improvements in risk performance on a product and market level
- Develop core elements of the Risk team's metrics reporting infrastructure
- Build quarterly and annual reports for leadership and executives
Qualifications
You Have:
- A Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, or a related technical field
- 3+ years of relevant experience (or Master's & 2+ years)
- High proficiency in SQL and one or more data visualization tool like Looker or Tableau
- The ability to decompose unstructured questions and power projects and analytical tasks to completion
- A passion for Square's mission
Even Better:
- Experience in the financial or risk space
- Experience with scripting and data analysis programming languages (e.g. Python, R)
- Experience using statistics and machine learning
- Business consulting or project management experience
Additional Information
Perks
At Square, we want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:
- Healthcare coverage
- Retirement Plans
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Wellness perks
- Paid parental leave
- Paid time off
- Learning and Development resources