Strategic BI & Analytics Analyst — Looker, BigQuery

Jobtailor; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an analytics professional to partner with business leaders to define key metrics, design dashboards in Looker, and drive data-driven decisions in a fintech/payments context.

You will own end-to-end reporting, write complex queries in BigQuery, validate data, and enable self-service analytics with ThoughtSpot, delivering insights that influence stakeholder strategy and product decisions.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of analytics, BI, or data analysis experience (ideally in SaaS, Fintech, or Payments)
• Strong experience building dashboards in Looker (preferred) or similar BI tools
• Hands-on experience querying large datasets in BigQuery (or similar cloud data warehouses)
• Advanced SQL skills with ability to transform and analyze complex datasets
• Demonstrated ability to translate data into clear insights and business recommendations (not just reports)
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills and curiosity to explore underlying drivers
• Experience working with large-scale transactional or payments-related datasets is a strong plus
• Ability to communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience working cross-functionally in fast-paced environments

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to define key performance drivers, metrics, and reporting requirements
• Design and develop scalable dashboards using Looker, leveraging governed data models
• Write and optimize complex queries in BigQuery to source, transform, and validate data
• Own the full lifecycle of reporting: requirements gathering, data validation, dashboard design, and deployment
• Move beyond reporting to analyze trends, identify anomalies, and provide actionable insights to stakeholders
• Enable and support self-service and AI-driven analytics using tools like ThoughtSpot to empower business users
• Partner with stakeholders to evolve reporting from static dashboards to interactive, insight-driven experiences
• Perform deep-dive analyses on Payments, lifecycle, and operational performance
• Collaborate with data teams to ensure alignment on data models, definitions, and source-of-truth metrics
• Maintain clear documentation for metrics, data definitions, and reporting processes
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve reporting efficiency, automation, and data quality

Skills

Looker dashboard development

Advanced SQL

Data analysis & insights

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical mindset

Tools

Looker

BigQuery

ThoughtSpot

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an analytics professional to partner with business leaders to define key metrics, design dashboards in Looker, and drive data-driven decisions in a fintech/payments context.

You will own end-to-end reporting, write complex queries in BigQuery, validate data, and enable self-service analytics with ThoughtSpot, delivering insights that influence stakeholder strategy and product decisions.