Director of Reporting & Analytics

Branch is on a mission to help working Americans grow financially. We do this by helping companies accelerate payments and empower working Americans with accessible, fee-free financial services. We’re committed to building and delivering more inclusive and transparent financial products.

Come join our team as we develop new ways to improve the lives of working Americans. Our mission starts with empowering our own employees. Have a great idea? Share it today and it might just get implemented tomorrow. As a team member at Branch, your voice and creativity can directly impact the product and company. We not only attract great talent from across the country, but also build teams to help that talent to thrive. That means valuing a diversity of opinions and working styles, while creating a shared belief in innovation, initiative, and winning together. 

The Director of Reporting & Analytics will support a cross-functional cohort of analysts to support our data-driven strategy. This role will involve developing and maintaining comprehensive reporting systems, driving insights through advanced analytics, and fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making. The director will align closely with various business units to ensure data assets are shared, reusable, and under appropriate controls, and will drive initiatives to improve data governance, reconciliation, and self-service capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of data analysts, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.

• Report and Dashboard Development: Oversee the creation and maintenance of detailed, insightful reports and dashboards that support business applications and analytics.

• Data Strategy Implementation: Ensure alignment of reporting and analytics with the overall data strategy, incorporating new insights into data assets.

• Continuous Improvement: Continually refine reporting processes and dashboard designs to enhance performance, quality, and alignment with business needs.

• Advanced Analytics: Conduct and oversee in-depth ad hoc analysis to provide actionable insights for business decision-making.

• Problem-Solving: Identify and address data challenges to improve business outcomes across financial, commercial, and operational domains.

• Customer Collaboration: Work closely with business users to refine data requests and tailor solutions to produce easily consumable, actionable outputs.

• Technology Adoption: Champion the latest data technologies and methodologies, staying ahead of industry trends to elevate team productivity and platform functionality.

• Governance and Reconciliation: Implement data governance practices, ensuring documentation, reconciliation, and data transparency.

• Self-Service Enablement: Develop and promote self-service data capabilities to empower domain experts and other stakeholders.

• Community Building: Foster a community of data practitioners across business units by coordinating efforts and sharing knowledge through our data governance platform, promoting collaboration and continuous learning.

Qualifications:

• Experience: At least 10 years of experience in data analysis, reporting, and analytics, with a proven track record in driving insights at the highest level of an organization.

• Technical Expertise: Advanced proficiency in SQL, reporting tools, and analytical tools.

• Analytical Skills: Expertise in advanced analytical techniques such as segmentation, cohort analysis, and time series analysis.

• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field.

• Industry Knowledge: Experience in the payments sector with comprehensive knowledge of payment processing with special attention on revenue forecasting and profitability analytics.

• Leadership Abilities: Strong leadership, mentoring, and team-building skills with the ability to drive a culture of data-driven excellence.

• Communication Skills: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work closely with various teams and stakeholders including strong experience supporting a management team.

Compensation: The base compensation range for this role is 200-210k.  The salary range displayed reflects an average base salary range for the position across all the US. The base salary offered to an applicant could be higher or lower based on each applicants specific skill set, depth of experience, relevant education or training, etc. The base salary range listed excludes commission/ bonus/ equity or benefits.

Benefits: 

• Work from anywhere (domestic USA)

• Branch-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance 

• Equity

• 401k

• Flexible time off

• Paid company holidays

• Paid parental leave (eligible after 6 months of employment)

Working at Branch

Branch is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

A remote-first company with employees located all throughout the US, Branch emphasizes transparency, accountability, and trust to create a collaborative environment where our product, engineering, marketing, customer support, customer success, and sales teams can all thrive together.

Our teamwork has enabled us to become an award-winning fintech company, with Branch’s innovation and workplace recognized across industries. Branch has been honored by the Webby Awards, Benzinga Fintech Awards, Fintech Breakthrough Awards, Top Workplaces USA, Great Places to Work, and EY Entrepreneur of the Year, Heartland, among others.  

Learn more about our culture, approach, technology, and people here: https://www.branchapp.com/about