Data Analyst - Finance

🚀 About Us We’re Bolt.new by StackBlitz! We're the team behind WebContainers, the groundbreaking technology that made it possible to run Node.js right in your browser. No installs, no setup, just instant dev environments. That innovation kickstarted our journey in 2019 and powers the blazing-fast online IDE used by over a million developers every month. But we didn't stop there. We took everything we learned from building WebContainers and used it to create Bolt.new—the fastest way to go from idea to production without writing traditional code. Think of it as the Canva or Figma for full-stack applications: a next-gen, AI-powered builder that lets you create, edit, and deploy web and mobile apps instantly, right in your browser. Simply describe what you want in plain language, and Bolt transforms your idea into a working product in minutes. WebContainers make it possible. Bolt.new brings it to life. Together, they reimagine what it means to build software—lowering the barrier to entry, speeding up workflows, and unlocking creativity for the next generation of builders. With over 1 million AI-generated applications deployed and explosive growth, we're just getting started. We're a globally distributed, fully remote team of passionate engineers, designers, and creatives building the future of software development. If you love turning data into insights, building the reporting foundations that drive business decisions, and partnering closely with finance and leadership, we'd love to meet you. ✨ About This Opportunity We're looking for a sharp, curious Financial Data Analyst to join our growing data team. You'll own financial reporting and analytics while partnering closely with Team Leads across the company to manage departmental budgets and drive financial accountability. This is a foundational role that will shape how we think about metrics, spending, and decision-making at StackBlitz. You'll work closely with our Head of Data and partner with stakeholders across the company—especially Finance and functional leaders—to build dashboards, develop KPI frameworks, manage budget cycles, and answer the questions that matter most. You'll be the bridge between raw financial data and business understanding, ensuring our financial metrics are accurate, trustworthy, and actionable. If you're excited about turning messy data into clear insights, partnering with leaders to manage their budgets, building the reporting that powers board meetings and strategic planning, and having real impact at a fast-moving startup, this is the role for you. 🛠️ How You'll Contribute Own Financial Analytics: Be the go-to person for understanding user growth, paid conversions, recurring revenue metrics (ARR, MRR, churn, LTV), and everything that matters to the business. Build deep expertise in how money flows through StackBlitz. Build Board-Ready Reporting: Create and maintain the dashboards and reports that leadership relies on to make decisions and communicate with investors. Your work will be seen at the highest levels of the company. Partner on Budget Management: Work directly with Team Leads to build and maintain Opex budgets. Own the Budget vs Actuals reporting cycle, helping leaders understand variances, forecast spend, and make informed resourcing decisions. Support Financial Planning Cycles: Contribute to monthly close processes, quarterly forecasting, and annual planning. Help functional leaders translate their roadmaps into financial plans. Enable Self-Service Financial Visibility: Build and maintain dashboards that give Team Leads real-time visibility into their budget performance without waiting for monthly reports. Develop Our Metrics Framework: Help build a metrics tree that connects company-level KPIs to team-level goals, making data accessible and actionable across the organization. Ensure we have a single source of truth for financial metrics. Bridge Data and Finance: Collaborate closely with finance stakeholders on data reconciliation, revenue recognition, and ensuring our financial data is accurate and trustworthy. Be the connective tissue between the data warehouse and financial reporting. Shape Data Infrastructure: Contribute to data modeling for financial and product analytics, working alongside our Data Engineers to keep our data reliable, well-documented, and well-organized. Partner Across the Business: Work with teams across the company to answer ad-hoc questions and dig into the data that drives better decisions. Translate complex data into insights that non-technical stakeholders can act on. Surface Insights Proactively: Don't wait to be asked. Monitor key metrics, identify trends and anomalies, and bring insights to stakeholders before they become urgent questions. 💡 Qualifications Analytics & FP&A Experience: 2-4 years of experience in financial analytics or FP&A, ideally at a SaaS or tech company. Experience with budget management, variance analysis, and working with business partners on financial planning. SQL Proficiency: Comfortable writing SQL queries and working with data warehouse environments. Experience with visual ETL/query tools is perfectly acceptable, you don't need to be a data engineer. Data Tooling: Experience building reports and dashboards in BI platforms like Tableau, Superset, Looker, or similar. Comfortable navigating data lakes and understanding data pipelines. Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of SaaS financial metrics (ARR, MRR, churn, LTV) and Opex budget management. You can speak fluently about revenue, retention, unit economics, and departmental spend. Business Partnership Skills: Proven ability to work with non-finance stakeholders, translate their needs into data requirements, and deliver insights they can act on. Comfortable pushing back diplomatically when budget conversations get tough. Self-Starter Mentality: Ability to own a domain, ask the right questions, and expand your knowledge independently. You don't wait to be told what to do—you see gaps and fill them. Communication Skills: Clear communicator who can translate data into insights that non-technical stakeholders can act on. Strong verbal and written English skills are required, as this role involves frequent collaboration across the company. Attention to Detail: Financial data requires precision. You're someone who double-checks their work and cares deeply about accuracy. Strong verbal and written English communication skills are required, as this role involves frequent collaboration with team members, stakeholders, and customers where English is the primary working language. 🎯 Bonus Points Data Modeling: Experience with dbt or contributing to analytics engineering workflows. Payments & Subscription Data: Experience with Stripe, billing systems, or subscription/payment data pipelines. Product Analytics: Familiarity with product analytics and growth metrics beyond financial reporting. Advanced SQL/Python: Ability to write complex queries, build automated data pipelines, or use Python for analysis. Visualization & Storytelling: Strong skills in data visualization and the ability to craft compelling narratives from data. 📈 Impact & Outcomes Your work will directly enable: Confident Leadership Decisions: Executives will rely on your dashboards and reports to understand business performance, make strategic decisions, and communicate with investors and the board. Financial Clarity: Finance stakeholders will have accurate, reconciled data they can trust for forecasting, budgeting, and reporting. Empowered Team Leads: Functional leaders will have real-time visibility into their budgets and a trusted partner to help them manage spend, plan headcount, and make tradeoffs. Clean Budget Cycles: Monthly and quarterly close processes will run smoothly, with variances explained and forecasts updated without fire drills. Metric Alignment: Teams across StackBlitz will understand how their work connects to company-level goals through the metrics framework you help build. Proactive Insights: Leadership will hear about revenue trends, conversion shifts, and growth anomalies from you first—not from a surprised board member. Scalable Foundations: As StackBlitz continues its hypergrowth, the reporting infrastructure you build will scale with the business. 📌 A Few Notes You do not need a college degree to apply You do not need to be located in the U.S. — we’re remote-friendly You do not need to meet every qualification listed above