Senior Analytics Engineer, Finance

Harvey Harvey · AI Frontier · New York, NY · Product

Senior Analytics Engineer to partner with the Finance team to build the financial data foundation, design scalable data models and pipelines using dbt, define a semantic layer for financial and operating metrics, and lead data governance initiatives. The role will also structure financial metric definitions to support AI-assisted reporting.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build scalable data models and pipelines using dbt to transform raw data into clean, reliable assets that power company-wide financial analytics and decision-making.
  2. Define and implement a robust semantic layer (e.g. LookML/Omni/Other) that standardizes financial and operating metrics, including revenue, retention, customer growth, usage, margin, and forecast inputs.
  3. Partner cross-functionally with Product, Finance, and the Exec Team to deliver intuitive, consistent dashboards and analytical tools that surface business health metrics (ARR, NRR).
  4. Establish and champion data modeling standards and best practices, guiding the organization in how to model data for accuracy, performance, usability, and long-term maintainability.
  5. Lead data governance initiatives, ensuring high standards of data quality, consistency, documentation, and access control across the analytics ecosystem.
  6. Structure financial metric definitions, business logic, and accounting context in ways that can support AI-assisted reporting, natural language analytics, and automated anomaly detection.

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • dbt
  • Python
  • Snowflake
  • Looker/Omni (or similar BI tools)
  • GitHub
  • CI/CD
  • Data modeling
  • Data pipelines
  • Financial metrics
  • Operating metrics
  • Data governance
  • Business intelligence

Nice to have

  • Early employee at a hyper-growth startup
  • Experience with or knowledge of AI and LLMs
  • Data Engineering Experience
  • Experience managing data warehouse (preferably Snowflake)
  • Experience at world-class enterprise orgs (ex: Brex, Ramp, Stripe, Palantir)

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, or similar field.
  • Deep expertise in SQL, dbt, Python, Snowflake.
  • Experience with modern BI tools like (Looker/Omni, or similar).
  • Strong familiarity with version control (GitHub), CI/CD, and modern development workflows.
  • Experience modeling financial, billing, subscription, CRM, or usage-based revenue data.
  • Strong understanding of business metrics such as ARR, MRR, churn, retention, expansion, bookings, billings, and revenue recognition.