Job description
About Railsr
Railsr is the world’s leading global embedded finance experience platform that gives customers the ability to prototype, build and scale financial products. Railsr is in growth mode with hundreds of clients globally, end-users in the multi millions, Venture Capital funding from top firms like Clocktower Ventures and Visa and the most globally-enabled, digitally-native product in the FinTech platform space.
Following a successful acquisition led by D Squared Capital, Railsr is committed to growing its product capabilities, and driving international expansion. It’s an extremely exciting time and the potential for companies to use Railsr to power and deliver their customer’s financial experiences is enormous.
The Opportunity
At the core of Railsr is our data platform. We believe that data can and should empower people to make better decisions across our organisation. We also need data to deliver regulatory reporting essential to our operations.
In this role you will be shaping how we use data from every part of our business, working closely with data analysts, engineers & senior stakeholders to get value from data, and reporting to the head of Data and Analytics.
Responsibilities:
- Data Collection and Integration: Gathering data from various sources, such as databases, APIs, or spreadsheets, and integrating it into a centralised data repository or data warehouse.
- You will be working with Looker, Snowflake and DBT
- You will work closely with data engineers to deliver high quality data models and expose into Looker (delivering key dashboards and allowing others to self-serve)
- Data Cleaning and Preprocessing: Identifying and addressing inconsistencies, errors, and missing values in the data. Applying data cleaning techniques, such as outlier detection, data imputation, and normalisation, to ensure data quality.
- Data Analysis and Interpretation: Conducting exploratory data analysis to discover patterns, trends, and insights. Applying statistical methods and data visualisation techniques to analyse data and present findings effectively.
- Report Generation in Looker: Creating regular and ad-hoc reports that summarise data analysis results, key performance indicators, and other relevant metrics. Developing visually appealing and informative dashboards to track and monitor data trends.
- Data Validation and Quality Assurance: Ensuring data accuracy and reliability by performing rigorous validation tests. Developing and implementing quality control procedures to identify data anomalies and discrepancies.
- Process Improvement: Identifying opportunities to streamline data collection, analysis, and reporting processes.
Your Profile
Attitude & Behaviours
- Naturally inquisitive and not afraid to question conventional wisdom
- Passion for making an impact for the business through data
- Love to share knowledge with others - you genuinely enjoy presenting & listening to new ideas and making things simpler & better for everyone working with data
- You like to work collaboratively with people of different backgrounds to achieve common goals
Skills & Experience
- Degree educated, ideally in a STEM subject or strong professional experience in this area
- Technical:
- Advanced SQL skills (e.g. window functions, Snowflake experience preferred)
- Data modelling experience (dbt and Looker an advantage)
- Dashboard building experience with BI Tools such as Looker (preferred), Tableau, Power BI. Your dashboards have a clear purpose and are user-friendly.
- Data exploration - ability to interrogate data to understand its structure and potential quality issues
- Everything else
- Great problem framing, problem solving & critical thinking skills
- You can structure projects effectively
- Excellent communicator & presenter (with internal, external, technical, non-technical audiences)
- Desirable:
- Experience in a FinTech, financial services or payments environment
- Version control tools (e.g. GitLab, GitHub) & associated workflow
- JIRA & agile methodology experience
What we can offer you:
Purpose, Vision & Journey
- At Railsr, our vision is to make finance an amazing experience everywhere and accessible to everyone in the world.
- We are truly customer obsessed and adventurous in designing the world’s best embedded finance experience platform to power our customers creating magic finance moments for their consumers.
- Join us and be a part of a team who are challenging and changing the global financial services industry.
Career
- We’re a lean, fast-growing, ambitious and agile global FinTech company. It's the perfect environment for you, if you enjoy a challenge, variety, thrive in ambiguity and most importantly, want to deliver real impact.
- We’re committed to innovation and development and this starts with our people. You are empowered to drive your own professional development and grow your skills.
Reward
- Beyond a competitive remuneration package, every Railsr employee gets equity. You will be part of an inclusive ownership model which offers accountability and significant reward potential.
- We look after your well-being with locally competitive benefits which can include enhanced parental leave, private medical, pension and more.
People
- Our teams work from different places to create amazing embedded finance solutions for our customers. We embrace flexible and hybrid working, but always putting our teams and customers needs first. This is part of our high-trust and mutual respect approach; with the expectation that we treat people as individuals and with respect.
- You will join and work with an international team with incredible passion and expertise in the FinTech industry.
Our Values
The environment at Railsr is fast-paced, exciting, and dynamic, underpinned by a clear set of values that drive a healthy and successful culture.
- Ambition - for our company, colleagues and ourselves and the freedom and expectation to own it.
- Trust - which we give freely and expect in return.
- Curiosity - with our minds open to fresh thinking in the constant pursuit of improvement.
- Customer Obsession - ensuring that everything we do is with the customer in mind, we succeed when they succeed.
If you are eager to join a fast-paced, collaborative and inclusive company and contribute to shaping its future, this is the role for you to make a difference.
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
Our global team is amazing , and we’re committed to making diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything we do. Ensuring that we are recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of our customers and communities is critical. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage all applications, particularly those from under-represented groups. Thank you for joining us on this journey.
Please let us know if there is any support we can provide to ensure Railsr’s recruitment process is fully accessible to you. You can contact us on [email protected] to discuss specific requirements.