Senior Data Analyst, Finance

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Fastned is seeking a Senior Data Analyst in Amsterdam to own end-to-end financial data work that fuels profitability, automation, and actionable insights across Finance & Risk and the Payments team. You’ll build robust data foundations, automate reporting, develop dashboards and analytics agents, and translate complex data into decisions for cross functional stakeholders in a small, embedded team. The ideal candidate has 5+ years, strong SQL, experience with dbt or similar, BI tools, basic Python or R, and comfort with AI accelerators; payments knowledge is a bonus. To apply, tailor your CV and motivation letter to highlight finance data projects, show measurable impact, describe collaboration with engineers and business teams, and prepare for a live product analytics case and a final take home assignment.

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Your role

We are looking for a Senior Data Analyst in Amsterdam to support the company in delivering one of our core objectives: becoming profitable. You will be the driving force behind financial data automation and financial insights at Fastned, leveraging your expertise to build robust data products that automate reporting and uncover key financial trends.

You will join a small central team of Data Analysts, Data Scientists and Data Engineers, but will be day-to-day deeply embedded within our Finance & Risk functions as well as our Payments Product & Software Engineering team, acting as the main point of contact within Data for those teams and building strong relationships with your stakeholders. You will also from time to time collaborate with other business teams, sometimes in partnership with another Data Analyst more specialised in their domain, to ensure that we are providing them accurate and actionable financial insights. Therefore, this is a role where you truly have the opportunity to make a cross-functional impact!

As we are a small team, this role is an end-to-end Data Analyst role: it’s not only about uncovering insights and communicating them to your stakeholders, but also about building solid data foundations for facilitating analysis in the future, whether it’s for ourselves, for our analysts community or for AI.

It’s therefore important that you enjoy getting your hands dirty! This means turning any amount and format of data into compelling and actionable insights, as well as thinking about automation and scalability of your assets (dashboards, analysis, data models…) and brainstorming about improvement opportunities with Data Engineers.

What you’ll do

• Support teams in defining clear financial & productivity goals and in understanding how they are progressing;

• Support your stakeholders in evaluating the effect of actions in the past and to set the right priorities for the future;

• Drive process changes ensure we collect financial data in a way that makes it actionable for our business teams;

• Present findings to drive decisions;

• Building reports, visualizations, dashboards, and Analytics AI agents to monitor performance and automate repetitive work;

• Improve our data pipelines and data models to facilitate access to financial data and targets.

Requirements

About you

You are a generalist, who both enjoys exploring data and conveying actionable insights but also enjoys the technical side of the role and loves brainstorming around how we can make analysis more efficient. 

Additionally, you tick the following boxes:

• Degree in Finance or Accounting (or similar) combined with Professional Experience or Training as a Data Analyst

[or] Degree a technical field (engineering, economics, statistics or similar) combined with some Professional Experience working closely with Financial data and processes;

• 5+ years of relevant working experience;

• Full proficiency with SQL; 

• Strong stakeholder management experience;

• Prior experience with a data transformation tool like dbt, Dataform or SQLMesh;

• Prior experience with a BI / dashboard building tool;

• Comfortable with basic statistical concepts;

• Basic knowledge of Python or R; 

• You regularly use AI to accelerate your work and you love brainstorming around how you could do more;

• (Nice-to-have) Prior experience managing with managing targets data & versioning;

• (Nice-to-have) Domain knowledge on payments; 

• (Nice-to-have) Previous experience working in a fast-paced and fast-changing environment;

Join us in building a better future!

We work hard to change the world, but we don't forget to recognise & celebrate our successes, big and small. We put a focus on work-life balance, provide you with genuine work flexibility and have family-friendly policies in place. 

Our benefits include:

• Stock option plan - we believe in shared value creation.

• Attractive Pension plan fully covered by Fastned.

• 29 holidays. Additionally, we give you 2 ‘Mission Days’ you can use to contribute to Fastned’s mission or to support a cause that is important to you.

• Daily lunches, snacks & drinks are provided at our office locations.

• Access to our electric car pool, with charging expenses covered

• Company bonus plan.

• Yearly training budget of € 3000.

• Access to the mental health platform Nilo Health including 10 sessions with psychologists.

• Urban Sports Club Subscription.

• Attractive parental benefits above legal minimum, including coaching via Foundtree.

• Accessibility to Women's Health platform Flouria.

• Company events year-round, including an exciting yearly trip abroad with all employees.

Interested in making an impact?

We would love to have a conversation with you! Apply today, share your CV and explain in your motivation letter why you’re excited about joining Fastned’s mission in this impactful role. Our talent acquisition team will get back to all applicants in due time to share details about timing & structure of the upcoming recruitment process. 

Fastned stands for equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, neurodiversity, disabilities, parental status or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique.

The recruitment process consists of 3 stages:

• A first video call with our recruiter to find out more about you and your motivation

• First interview with the Data & Insights team Manager, and another Data Analyst

• A Product Analytics Live Business Case

• Final round is a case assignment to take home followed by a final interview.

We will start the recruitment process online.The final round will be conducted in the Amsterdam office.

Fastned is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly encourage women, people of colour, and LGBTQ(+) people to apply. We consider applicants of all gender identities.