Square Finance & Strategy - Senior Data Analytics Manager

Company Description

Since we opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely, and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take payments and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together.

So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions – to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, offer buy now, pay later functionality through Afterpay, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. Across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow in one place. Afterpay furthers our goal to provide omnichannel tools that unlock meaningful value and growth, enabling sellers to capture the next generation shopper, increase order sizes, and compete at a larger scale.

Today, we are a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex operations, sellers just starting, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers grow, so do our solutions. There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a significant, meaningful, and lasting business, and we are helping sellers worldwide do the same.

Job Description

Finance & Strategy improves financial and operational decision-making across Block. Our team’s core value is trust – we build it by making what is complex simple, and we do it with analysis that is accurate and easy-to-understand. Partners appreciate our insight and trust us to help solve difficult problems. We believe good ideas can come from anywhere, and we’ll rely on you to work with others, form intelligent opinions, and present your thoughts to decision-makers and company executives. 

As Senior Manager in Square’s Finance and Strategy team, you will report into the Head of Square Central F&S leading Data and Reporting. This role will require significant collaboration with key finance operations functions (Finance & Strategy, Business Intelligence, Product Teams to GMs) to create excellence in our reporting, move our data capabilities to the next phase and lead our Finance Data Science and Machine Learning team.

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of financial planning and reporting processes, best practices and the latest applications of related tools & technologies. The role will require excellent organizational and communication skills and be highly collaborative with cross functional partners, with the expectation that this individual will serve as a key partner at the intersection of finance and technology. Project Management skills are a must as we build our new data foundations and machine learning capabilities. 

You will: 

• Own our analytics and reporting infrastructure within Square, while also being the primary point of contact from the segment for our overall Block Finance data infrastructure initiatives

• Manage a team to improve our data insights, reporting automation and machine learning capabilities.

• Build key relationships across F&S, Business Intelligence and Data Science functions across Block

• Project manage multiple inflight deliverables across your team

• Set up Operational processes to allow for sustained, incremental data and reporting improvements

• Drive F&S transformation initiatives including P&L reporting, management analytics & dashboards

• Drive the deployment and adoption of new tools and capabilities within F&S

• Build trust through numerically-driven insights and analysis

Qualifications

You have:

• 8+ years of relevant experience, in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking a plus

• Advanced proficiency in data insights, analytics, and storytelling

• Process design and transformation experience

• Demonstrated results working well across various teams with strong project management skills to coordinate between multiple groups in order to deliver projects on time

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, coupled with the ability to summarize detailed information in order to make actionable recommendations

• Commitment to Square’s purpose of Economic Empowerment

Even better:

• Experience with SQL or comfort working with large datasets

• Experience managing a team

• Experience project managing finance transformation efforts and/or implementing ML applications for financial functions

• Experience with software, internet, or financial technology industry

Additional Information

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary dependin