Data Analyst

Tap Payments; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial sector seeks a Data Analyst to optimize payment services in the MENA region. The role demands expertise in data analytics, financial KPIs, and proficiency in SQL and BI tools to provide actionable insights. Candidates should have a strong foundation in financial services and excellent problem-solving skills to contribute to the future of payments.

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of experience in a data analytics role, with 2+ years in financial services.
• Deep understanding of payment flows and transaction lifecycles.
• Experience with BI tools for building dashboards and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Analyze transactional and customer-level financial data to uncover trends.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and KPIs on payment volumes.
• Collaborate with teams to inform decisions using data-driven insights.

Skills

SQL

Data Analysis

Financial KPIs

Business Analytics

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Finance

Business Analytics

Economics

Data Science

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

AWS

GCP

Snowflake

Job description

As a Tapster you will:
• Analyze transactional, merchant, gateways, acquirers and customer-level financial data to uncover trends, detect anomalies, and support business strategies.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, KPIs, and deep-dive reports on payment volumes, conversion rates, chargebacks, refunds, authorization trends, and reconciliation metrics.
• Create financial analytics frameworks that support revenue forecasting, pricing analysis, and business performance.
• Collaborate with finance, risk, operations, and product teams to inform decisions through data-driven insight.
• Extract and manipulate large datasets using SQL, while maintaining high accuracy and performance.
• Build visual stories using Power BI, Tableau, or Looker to help leadership monitor real-time business and financial health.
• Monitor payment flow anomalies, latency, failure rates, and operational bottlenecks across acquirers, issuers, PSPs, and gateway systems.
• Work with reconciliation and settlement teams to validate financial flows and reduce leakage or mismatch.
What you will bring to the party:
• 4-7 years of experience in a data analytics role, with at least 2+ years in financial services, payments, or fintech.
• Deep understanding of payment flows, transaction lifecycles, authorization logic, and fee structures.
• Strong SQL skills for querying large volumes of transactional data across relational and cloud-based databases.
• Experience with BI tools (Power BI, Quicksight, metabase, Tableau or Looker) for building dashboards and reporting for leadership.
• Familiarity with reconciliation concepts, clearing & settlement, FX, and merchant payout cycles.
• Knowledge of financial KPIs such as approval rates, conversion ratios, MDR, net revenue, and operational breakage.
• Comfort working with cloud platforms such as AWS (Redshift, Athena), GCP (BigQuery), or Snowflake.
• Bachelor s or Master s in Finance, Business Analytics, Economics, Data Science, or related field.
Are you ready to shape the future of payments in MENA?

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