Senior Data Analyst, Handshake
Finance and Payments
$120-150k
+ Equity
4 days a week in office
The career platform for Gen Z
Open for applications
The career platform for Gen Z
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$120-150k
+ Equity
4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize access to opportunity and ensure any student can build a great career no matter who they know, where they live or what school they attend.
Role
Who you are
- 3–6+ years of experience in data analytics, analytics engineering, data engineering, financial analytics, or a related field
- Build and maintain scalable Finance and Operations dashboards and reporting across revenue, project expenses, margins, cash flows, payments, and other key financial and operational metrics
- Develop automated data pipelines across systems that bring together information from financial, operational, and business systems
- Identify and execute opportunities to automate existing financial reporting processes, reducing manual effort and improving the consistency and reliability of recurring deliverables
- Contribute to the buildout of finance data infrastructure, automate recurring reporting, and reduce reliance on manual, spreadsheet-based processes
- Partner with Payment Operations to build reporting and analytics around payment volumes, accuracy, exceptions, disputes, and processing performance
- Develop automated reconciliations and controls to identify missing, duplicate, incorrect, or unusual payments
- Support the investigation and resolution of payment discrepancies through data analysis
- Help improve and automate payment workflows, including data validation and exception management
- Partner with Finance and Operations stakeholders to translate business questions into data models, dashboards, and actionable analysis
- Establish documentation, data definitions, and controls that improve the reliability and auditability of Finance and Payments reporting
- Experience with Python or another analytical programming language
Desirable
- Advanced SQL skills and experience working with large datasets
- Experience building dashboards and reporting using tools such as Hex, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, or similar
- Familiarity with modern data warehouses and transformation tools such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or similar
- Strong understanding of data modeling, data quality, reconciliation, and automation
- Ability to understand financial and operational processes and translate them into technical solutions
- Strong analytical mindset and ability to independently investigate discrepancies and ambiguous data problems
- Experience working with Finance teams strongly preferred
- Experience with payment operations, high-volume contractor payments, or other transaction-heavy environments is a plus
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Data Analyst to support the Finance and Central Operations organization and help build the data infrastructure, reporting, and analytics that power financial and operational decision-making
- This role combines analytics, data engineering, and applied data science, with a strong focus on translating complex operational data into reliable financial insights
- While reporting within the Finance team, this role will also partner closely with the Payment Operations team, helping improve the data, controls, and automation behind high-volume payment processes
- This role requires close collaboration with our San Francisco–based team and availability during core U.S. business hours
Our take
The three founders of Handshake established their company in an attempt to eliminate inequality and make the student hiring landscape fairer. The Handshake platform acts as a LinkedIn for college students, pairing students from every walk of life with more than 650K employers, including the entire Fortune 500, which includes Google and Nike.
The graduate recruitment platform is open to any student with a valid @.edu email address, with more than 17M active users from thousands of colleges and universities. With a student-first philosophy, the company generates revenue from both universities and employers rather than students.
Valued at $3.5B, Handshake has gained traction in a competitive market, although it has strong competition from recruiting giants LinkedIn and Indeed. It stands out, however, by helping students build new relationships and skills, rather than simply making connections to people they already know.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES F
May 2021
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $434m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical , dental, and vision coverage
- Fertility and family forming: Through a partnership, Handshake offers comprehensive family benefits, including infertility treatments and a $15K stipend, to its employees.
- LGTBQ+ coverage: All medical plans cover transgender services.
- Mental health: Discounts on a variety of wellness apps and an Employee Assistance Program with access to five free counseling sessions.
- Tax savings: Tax-advantaged benefits to save money on healthcare, dependent care, and other expenses.
- Learning & development: Employees are provided with an annual stipend to use towards professional development, career development workshops, manager trainings, and 1-on-1 coaching through external partnerships
- Community leader support: Employee Resource Group leaders are compensated with a quarterly bonus for the high-impact work the role requires
- Parental leave: Leaves of 16 weeks for birth-giving parents and 10 weeks for non-birth-giving parents; the policy applies to adoptions as well. Handshake also partners to provide one-on-one coaching on preparing for leave and coming back from leave
- Flexible time off: No accrued time off or waiting period to take vacation. Two paid flexible holiday days off to observe holidays that closely align with religious, cultural, and personal needs
- Sabbatical: Paid six-week sabbatical to recharge and reset beginning at six years of continuous, full-time employment, and every four years thereafter
- Volunteer time off: Two days off for social and civil activism, volunteer work, and/or any related activities, including attending and participating in protests
- Life & disability insurance: Essential benefits and automatic coverage with basic life insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- 401k match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 1% of pay, with a max of $1,200 per year.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Garrett Lord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Majored in Computer Science at Michigan Technological University. Interned at Palantir Technologies before co-founding Handshake in 2012.
Ben Christensen
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Michigan Technological University with a degree in Computer Networking & Systems Administration. Interned at Target and worked as a Developer at Up and Running Software. Was part of Arbor Networks' ASERT Security Research team.
Scott Ringwelski
(Co-Founder)Attained a degree in Computer Software Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Co-founded Handshake in 2012.
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