About the Role
VAST Data is seeking a Data Analyst, Finance to join our growing analytics team. This role will build analytics and dashboard visualizations to deliver actionable insights on core SaaS and financial metrics, partnering closely with Finance, Accounting, Tax, and Revenue Operations stakeholders. The position plays a key role in transforming data into actionable insights that improve business outcomes by building and delivering accurate, accessible, and repeatable business reporting.
Responsibilities
- Write SQL queries to extract and transform financial and SaaS metrics data, ensuring data integrity and accuracy.
- Collect, clean, and interpret data from various sources to provide actionable insights.
- Develop ad-hoc reports and analytics packages for regular business reviews.
- Build and maintain reports and Tableau visualizations to represent financial metrics, trends, and performance.
- Deliver analytics that answer key business questions and drive value for stakeholders.
- Support efforts to improve the accuracy of financial reporting data and identify data quality gaps.
- Use AI tools like Cursor and Claude to speed up SQL development, documentation, and testing.
- Track and manage analytics work in Jira and collaborate to improve data across systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Analytics, Business, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
- 3-5 years of experience as a data or financial analyst.
- Proficient in SQL for data extraction and manipulation.
- Experience with Tableau for dashboard creation and data visualization.
- Some experience using AI-assisted coding and analysis tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude).
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
- Familiarity with SaaS financial metrics (ARR, RPO, Customer Retention) preferred.
- Comfortable working in Jira to manage and track analytics tasks.
- Minimal travel required (approximately 10% or less annually).
- A relentless drive and a customer-first mentality.
- Attention to detail ensuring accuracy and reliability.
- Ability to break down complex problems, identify patterns, and derive meaningful insights.
- Intellectual curiosity with a desire to explore data and ask questions.
- Ability to convey data insights clearly and effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines while prioritizing tasks.
- Ability to thrive in a culture of transparency and direct feedback.
Skills
- SQL
- Tableau
- AI-assisted coding and analysis tools
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-solving
- Critical thinking
- SaaS financial metrics
- Jira
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
About the Company
- VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era, building enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference.
- VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.
- Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer-first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills & experiences to make real market impact.
