Finance BI Director — AI-Driven Analytics + Equity Options

Metropolis; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Metropolis in Los Angeles is seeking a Director, Business Intelligence – Finance to own the vision, strategy, and execution of Metropolis’s Finance BI function. You are an organizational architect with a track record of building high‑performing, multi-disciplinary data teams from scratch — engineers, data scientists, and analysts — and shaping the data culture of the organizations you’ve led.

You are a builder who thrives on complexity across systems, stakeholders, and business cycles, and who

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Data Engineering, BI, Data Science, or FinTech.
• 4+ years leading data teams and building organizations from the ground up.
• Executive presence with fluent data storytelling connecting findings to action.
• Technical foundation in Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Spark, Looker/Tableau and cloud platforms AWS or GCP.
• Analytical depth in model validation, forecasting accuracy, and hypothesis-driven analysis.
• Proven ability to drive data governance and quality programs.
• Track record building AI/ML-augmented finance analytics.

Responsibilities

• Own the Finance BI strategy by setting the multi-year vision to build, govern, and scale the finance data environment.
• Hire and develop the function’s first BIEs, data scientists, and analysts, building toward a high-performing team.
• Evolve Finance analytics from reporting to intelligence with predictive modeling and anomaly detection.
• Serve as the executive-level data partner to Finance, translating priorities into data investments.
• Design and govern intake, prioritization, and delivery framework for Finance data work.
• Drive company-wide Finance data governance with policies, standards, and ownership.
• Evaluate tools, platforms, and integrations for the Finance data stack with CTO and Data Platform.

Skills

Data leadership

Data storytelling

Forecasting

AI/ML analytics

Finance analytics

Dashboards

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Spark

Looker

Tableau

AWS

GCP

Job description

Metropolis in Los Angeles is seeking a Director, Business Intelligence – Finance to own the vision, strategy, and execution of Metropolis’s Finance BI function. You are an organizational architect with a track record of building high‑performing, multi-disciplinary data teams from scratch — engineers, data scientists, and analysts — and shaping the data culture of the organizations you’ve led.

You are a builder who thrives on complexity across systems, stakeholders, and business cycles, and who