Accounting Analytics & BI Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Finance Analytics and BI professional to establish scalable analytics engineering for accounting. You will design data models and orchestrations powering finance reporting and automated workflows.

Youll partner with Data Engineering, Data Science, and Finance to deliver reliable, self-serve insights and drive AI-powered accounting automation across the org.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in SQL and Python (or other OO language).
• Experience with data modeling and orchestration tools (dbt and Airflow).
• Experience with data visualization and BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Hex, Streamlit).
• Experience designing self-serve analytics experiences for non-technical stakeholders.
• Track record partnering with Finance or Accounting teams to drive business and financial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data models and orchestration pipelines (dbt, Airflow) that power analytics and financial workflows.
• Develop dashboards, visualizations, and data apps for self-serve data access by stakeholders.
• Translate business questions into metrics and tools, delivering clear recommendations.
• Build analytics supporting financial reporting, close processes, reconciliations, and scenario analysis.
• Define the future of AI-powered accounting automation in partnership with stakeholders.

Skills

SQL

Python

Self-serve analytics

Finance partnering

Data storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Looker

Tableau

Hex

Streamlit

Job description

About the company

the company’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

As a member of our Finance Analytics and Business Intelligence team, you'll play an instrumental role in our company's mission of building safe and beneficial AI by establishing the analytics engineering and business intelligence capabilities our Accounting organization runs on. In this unique company, technology, and moment in history, your work will be critical to ensuring accurate financial reporting, streamlining accounting processes, and supporting financial operations as we deploy safe, frontier AI at scale to the world.

You’ll partner closely with the Accounting organization to build the data foundation that turns financial and operational data into reliable, self-serve insight and automated processes. That means owning the data models and orchestration beneath accounting analytics, designing the dashboards and data applications stakeholders rely on day to day, and partnering across Data Engineering, Data Science, and the broader Finance organization to make sure every number is one the team can trust. Increasingly, it also means defining the future of AI-powered accounting automation; finding where AI can take on work that is manual today and reshape how the function operates.

This is a foundational, hands-on role at the intersection of accounting, analytics, and business intelligence. You'll establish the durable, scalable systems the fast-growing function depends on, bringing the rigor of a culture of excellence to a function still being built from the ground up, and taking projects end to end, from an ambiguous question to a trusted, scalable system.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data models and orchestration pipelines (dbt, Airflow) that power analytics, reporting, and downstream financial workflows

• Develop dashboards, visualizations, and data applications that give stakeholders self-serve access to their data

• Translate stakeholders' business questions into well-defined metrics and tools, and turn the resulting analysis into clear recommendations

• Build analytics that support financial reporting, the close process, reconciliations, and scenario analysis

• Define the future of AI-powered accounting automation in partnership with stakeholders, streamlining workflows and reducing manual effort

• Champion data quality, testing, and documentation across the data stack

Minimum qualifications

• Proficiency in SQL and Python (or another object-oriented programming language)

• Experience with data modeling and orchestration tools (e.g., dbt and Airflow)

• Experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau, Hex, Streamlit)

• Experience designing self-serve analytics experiences for non-technical stakeholders

• A track record of partnering closely with Finance or Accounting teams to drive business and financial outcomes, turning open questions and data into clear, insightful analysis

Preferred qualifications

• Experience using AI to improve or automate analytical processes

• Experience building data applications

• Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP) and their cost structures

• Experience modeling financial impact, including forecasting and scenario analysis

• A bias for action and urgency, not letting perfect be the enemy of effective

• A strong disposition to thrive in ambiguity, taking initiative to create clarity and forward progress

• A deep curiosity and energy for pulling the thread on hard questions

• A passion for the company's mission of building safe, beneficial AI

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$220,000—$270,000 USD

Logistics Minimum education

Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study

A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience

Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy

Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship

We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At the company we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highe