Analytics Engineer - Payments

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across engineering, accounting, financial partnerships, and product teams to analyze and account for billions of dollars flowing through the Rippling payment platform.
• Develop end-to-end analyses using SQL, Python, or other scripting and statistical tools, and create real-time metrics dashboards to manage key financial and operating levers of the business.
• Monitor payment flows between systems, banks, processors, and inter-company accounts; perform daily account reconciliations; and investigate discrepancies.
• Respond swiftly to emerging issues, summarize facts, and provide recommendations for timely resolution of critical financial matters.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in Accounting, Compliance, Treasury, and other teams to capture business requirements and develop scalable reporting and reconciliation automation solutions, including internal tools or third-party implementations.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation of reconciliation processes and procedures.
• Prepare and deliver data and reporting solutions to support month-end close, regulatory and compliance reporting, and Internal/External Audit activities.
• Communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders through clear and concise presentations and reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, Economics, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or related fields.
• 4+ years of experience applying analytics engineering, analysis, modeling, or exploratory analysis to large datasets, preferably in payments processing, quote-to-cash, or financial reporting.
• Experience with data warehousing, ETL, and reporting tools such as Snowflake, Tableau, dbt, and Dagster.
• Extensive SQL experience across the data science development lifecycle, from initial analysis and model development to deployment.
• Experience partnering with engineering, finance, and accounting teams to assess data needs and build automated reporting pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to present findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to engage with multiple stakeholders and senior leadership (including C-suite) across the organization.
• Bonus points for experience with general accounting principles, the general ledger close process, and regulatory compliance.

Technologies

• SQL
• Python
• Snowflake
• Tableau
• dbt
• Dagster