Sr. Data Analyst

The Banking Analytics team is lean, high functioning, entrepreneurial, and impact-focused. We combine creative and critical thinking with detailed analysis and drive impact across the organization. If you are inquisitive and can incubate different angles for business/product opportunities, synthesize large amounts of data, connect the dots amidst ambiguity, and want to deliver clear and measurable impact from day one, the Varo team would love to meet you!

Conduct data analysis, using advanced analytical and statistical approaches, to make business recommendations. Be impact focused and demonstrate high bias to action
Develop a deep understanding of how customers use our banking products and share insights around the key metrics that drive the company
Understand our payments data at a transaction level and identify levers to improve transaction processing while balancing customer benefit vs risk
Conduct data analysis to make business recommendations. Analysis areas might include (but not limited to): transactional analysis, customer spend behaviors, root cause analysis
Create automate reports, iteratively build prototype dashboards to provide insights at scale, solving for business priorities
Work with the Banking and Payments product and engineering teams to provide analytical support for critical initiatives as well as new business or product opportunities. Effectively communicate key findings and recommendations to multiple levels of stakeholders

4+ years of experience in an analytical role providing business analysis, developing dashboards, and presenting results to leadership
Expert in SQL (4+ years). Proficiency in Tableau (or other BI tools) and day-to-day use of R/Python is a big plus
Experience articulating business questions, scripting with SQL/Python to pull data from datasets, and adapt quantitative techniques to solve complex problems
Experience with banking and/or payments processing, experimentation, consumer product analytics, measuring ROI of initiatives, and automating dashboards and reports to track business performance
Track record of successfully communicating data-driven insights
Solid understanding of statistical analysis
Exceptional problem-solving skills and business judgment
Ability to get things done and work independently and a high bias for action.