Senior Payments Data Analyst - Reconciliation & Insights

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

You’ll empower Accounting, Finance, Biz Ops, Payments, and Product teams by delivering accurate data for finances and product operations. This role offers significant cross‑functional exposure and direct visibility to leadership.

Qualifications

• Master’s or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, Econ, Math, Business Analytics, or related fields.
• 4+ years of analytics/engineering experience applying analysis to large datasets, ideally in payments or financial reporting.
• Experience with data warehousing, ETL, and reporting tools (Snowflake, Tableau, dbt, Dagster).
• Extensive SQL experience across the data science development process from analysis to deployment.
• Experience working with engineering, finance, and accounting teams to meet data needs and build automated reporting pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bonus points for experience with accounting principles, GL close, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, accounting, financial partnerships, and product teams to analyze billions of dollars flowing through the Rippling payment platform.
• Build full-cycle analyses using SQL, Python, or other tools, and develop real-time metrics dashboards to manage key financial and operating levers.
• Monitor payment flows between systems, banks, processors, and inter-company accounts; perform daily reconciliations and follow up on discrepancies.
• React swiftly to emerging issues, summarize facts, and provide recommendations for timely resolution of critical financial matters.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and develop scalable reporting and reconciliation automation solutions.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation of reconciliation processes and procedures.
• Prepare data and reporting solutions supporting month-end close, regulatory & compliance reporting, and internal/external audits.
• Communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders through clear presentations and reports.

Skills

SQL

Python

Analytics

ETL

Dashboards

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree in CS/Engineering/Stats/Data Science

Tools

Snowflake

Tableau

dbt

Dagster

Job description

You’ll empower Accounting, Finance, Biz Ops, Payments, and Product teams by delivering accurate data for finances and product operations. This role offers significant cross‑functional exposure and direct visibility to leadership.