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  • What we're looking for

    Do you like knowing exactly why a number moved? As an FP&A Data Analyst at ARQ, you'll own the data foundations behind our revenue, cost and management reporting. You'll sit between Finance and Engineering: building the models that tell us how the business is performing, keeping them accurate every day, and turning them into insight that leadership uses to make decisions.

    This is a hands-on role for someone who is as comfortable in a dbt project or a Python codebase as in a P&L. You'll work closely with Finance, Treasury and Engineering, and your work will feed management, investor and regulatory reporting directly.

    What you'll be doing

    • Own the finance data layer: Maintain and extend our dbt repo. That means building and refactoring models, writing tests, and keeping finance data clean, documented and reliable.

    • Revenue and cost models: Build and maintain the models behind revenue, unit economics and operations costs (payment rails, FX, card, banking partners, vendors) across our markets.

    • Management accounts: Support daily and monthly management accounts on both accrual and cash basis. Reconcile them to source systems and explain movements.

    • Budgeting and forecasting: Feed actuals into the budget and forecast, run variance analysis, and help Finance understand what is driving performance.

    • Python services: Help maintain and improve the internal Python services and pipelines that support finance reporting and reconciliation.

    • Data mapping and requirements: Map data sources across our product and payments stack, and document business logic and assumptions so others can trust and reuse your work.

    • Onboard new business: When we launch a new product, partner or market, make sure it flows correctly into financial reporting, controls and processes.

    • Dashboards and reporting: Build and improve dashboards with Finance and Controllership that track key metrics and surface business drivers.

    • Anomalies and controls: Spot breaks, unusual spikes or data quality issues early, find the root cause, and fix it at the source.

    • Data literacy: Help the wider team understand and self-serve finance data.

    What you'll need

    • 3+ years in a data, analytics or FP&A role, ideally in fintech, banking or payments

    • Strong SQL and solid Python

    • Hands-on experience with dbt (or a similar transformation tool) and version control (Git)

    • A good grasp of financial statements, management accounts and core finance concepts (accruals, revenue recognition, unit economics)

    • A quantitative background, through education or experience

    • Strong attention to detail and a quality-first mindset, while still able to work to tight deadlines

    • Clear communication: you can explain a variance to a CFO and a data model to an engineer

    • Initiative to automate repetitive work and improve how things are done

    Nice to have

    • Experience with regulatory or external reporting

    • Exposure to reconciliations, treasury or general ledger data

    • Experience with BI tools (Metabase, Looker, Power BI) and orchestration tools (Airflow or similar)

    • Experience maintaining production code: code review, testing, CI/CD

    • Spanish or Portuguese proficiency

    Benefits

    • Competitive salary

    • Sign-on stock options bonus, so you share in the company's success

    • Discretionary performance bonus (stock options)

    • Paid annual leave

    • Real ownership of work that directly affects how the business is run

    • The latest technology to work with

    • A strong team that will help you grow your skills

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