Director, Finance Analytics & Data Science

Navan is the all-in-one super app that makes travel and expense easy so you can focus on being there, not getting there. Say goodbye to spending hours on the phone trying to change your flight or saving stacks of receipts to manually input expenses. From EAs and finance teams to travel managers and employees, Navan empowers people to focus on the things that matter most to them — all while providing companies with real-time visibility, savings, and control.

Navan’s investors include visionaries like Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Ventures, Greenoaks, Zeev Ventures, and entrepreneurs Lee Fixel, Adam Bain, and Elad Gil. Valued at $9.2B, Navan is well-positioned for continued growth as it continues its takeover of the travel and expense market.

In April 2023, Navan expanded in the Indian market with the acquisition of Tripeur, a modern, people-centric corporate travel and expense management company. The group’s fifth acquisition in under two years, Tripeur joined the Navan Group alongside Spanish meetings and events specialists, Atlanta Events & Corporate Travel Consultants; Berlin-based modern travel management company, Comtravo; leading Scandinavian travel agency Resia AB; and London-based high-touch TMC, Reed & Mackay — the latter of which remains a standalone brand.

At Navan, we’re never satisfied with the status quo, and we know breakthrough ideas come from diverse perspectives. We are committed to cultivating a workplace that reflects the diversity of the customers we serve while fostering leadership and innovation. All voices are valued here and you’ll have the resources, tools, and training you’ll need to do the best work of your life.

As a leader within our global Data team, you will work closely with stakeholders across Finance, Product, and Engineering, supporting both our Travel and Expense businesses. You will define the data needs and build the data products for a rapidly maturing company. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in FinTech, be technically proficient in modern data modeling and analysis techniques, and will use their data skills and business mindset to make a difference every day. We are looking for someone who wants to be a part of a fast moving, fast-growing company; you should be able to go hands-on when necessary, while also driving a long term plan to up-level team performance via process and coaching. We take great pride in our diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives and we strongly believe this is helping us to grow as a successful and impactful team.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with a wide array of internal stakeholders to help set a data-driven, company-wide strategy across all areas of our Travel and FinTech products
• Manage a team of data analysts and scientists, reinforcing a culture of sharing context and encouraging ownership
• Improve our ability to ask better questions and arrive at more transformative answers, using a combination of both qualitative and quantitative information
• Build reporting products to measure company performance and shape narratives and priorities
• Define and implement scalable data models in partnership with finance and engineering
• Stay curious, and inject that curiosity into your group

What We're Looking For:

• 7+ years of experience in at least 3 of following areas: financial data, data science, business analytics, and/or product analytics
• 3+ years of management experience, including working with matrixed cross-functional teams
• Exceptional background in managing a data team for a FinTech product
• Exceptional ability to translate between business and technical audiences, especially in summarizing highly technical analyses to non-technical audiences
• Ability to work hands-on in building data models and/or reports and dashboards
• Strong people management abilities and instincts, especially managing managers and managing a wide range of cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong analytical and/or quantitative background