Business Analyst, Finance Analytics

Rover.com • Seattle, WA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Want to make an impact? Join our pack and come work (and play!) with us. We believe everyone deserves the unconditional love of a pet—and at Rover, our mission is to make it easier to experience that love. Founded in 2011, the Rover app and website connect dog and cat parents with loving pet sitters and dog walkers in neighborhoods across the US, Canada, and Europe. We empower our community of trusted pet sitters and dog walkers to run their own pet care businesses on Rover with the tools and security of a global company to back them. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we work closely with our teams in Barcelona and remote locations. We’ve got a reputation for being a great place to work and are proud to be recognized as a top workplace in our area by respected business publications. We're an agile, fast-growing company, and our leadership comes from some of the world's most respected tech companies. At Rover, our furry coworkers are just as important as our human ones—and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Along with making the joys of pet parenthood more accessible, we’re committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community of pet people—and that starts with our employees. This is a hybrid position that has the minimum expectation to work out of our Downtown Seattle Office two days per week on Mondays and Thursdays. For this reason, candidates must be based in the Greater Seattle Area or willing to relocate. Who we're looking for: We are seeking a Business Analyst on the Finance Analytics team that will be the go-to person for financial metric decomposition and narration, ultimately directly influencing business outcomes and strategic priorities. As a Business Analyst on the Finance Analytics team, you will work with the broader Finance organization and Product Analytics team to analyze and narrate our marketplace. You are proactive about identifying positive and negative changes in financial metrics while also working with the team to hypothesize, investigate, and identify the underlying root cause of fluctuations in our metrics. This position requires a professional in data storytelling: we are looking for someone who is capable of presenting trends and overarching narratives of business performance to the broader organization, including senior leadership. As a Business Analyst, you will also partner with Accounting, Tax and Product to maintain current reporting on various areas of the business, and are also encouraged to identify opportunities to improve reporting to better meet the teams’ needs. When there are changes across the business that impact Finance, including product feature experiments, new business lines, and regulatory changes, you will partner with stakeholders, both technical and non-technical, to find the right solution.

Requirements

• 3+ years business experience in Analytics.
• Familiarly with finance and accounting principles, including financial statements.
• Background in data-informed decision-making and partnering with multi-functional teams.
• Track record of strong written and verbal communication to construct clear data narratives to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Fluent with SQL and data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Looker, etc.) to independently conduct root cause analyses.
• Experience working with data infrastructure / engineering teams to build and optimize data models.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a two-sided marketplace.
• Familiarity with Python, R, or a similar computational language.

Responsibilities

• Become a subject matter expert on database queries related to all payments and finance tables, cohort modeling, and integrated third-party vendor data.
• Monitor existing metrics and build new metrics that will drive business impact.
• Regularly present to senior leadership and the finance organization on the trends and insights into changes in the business. This includes the decomposition of the drivers of those changes as well as recommendations on actions to improve marketplace performance.
• Provide leverage for the finance, accounting, and tax teams through insights, narratives and increased automation/simplification.
• Be a thought partner for business owners, getting to the question behind the question and distilling the underlying need to analyze data.
• Demonstrate flexibility and a collaborative mindset by stepping in to support teammates and cross-functional partners as needed.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 401k match
• Flexible PTO
• Competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Bring your dog to work (and unlimited puppy time)
• Doggy benefits, including $1000 toward adopting your first dog
• Stocked fridges, coffee, soda, and lots of treats (for humans and dogs) and free catered lunches semi-monthly
• Regular team activities performed in-person and virtually

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed