Financial Analyst - Hybrid

Job ID: 24-02905 Job Title: Financial Analyst

Location: San Jose, CA

Duration: 7 months

Contract Type: W2 only

Pay Rate Range: $48.00 - $54.63/Hour

Job Description

• The Strategic Pricing Team within Pricing and Monetization is responsible for defining the vision for how client monetizes large merchants on the client website -- balancing growth, customer satisfaction, and financial objectives for client within a challenging and dynamic competitive e-commerce landscape.
• The team identifies and implements opportunities to accelerate commerce on the multi-billion dollar client platforms with the goal of benefiting our buyers and sellers through bringing new and unique inventory to client.
• We are seeking a Business Operations Specialist on our North American Pricing and Monetization team.
• In this role, you will play a crucial part in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data to provide insights for pricing decisions. Your responsibilities include building the management reporting that sets the foundations for all strategy and measurement of our sellers.
• You'll be responsible for measuring the impact of strategies by gathering and visualizing data, storytelling through presentations, collaborating with experts in areas like technology and influencing senior leadership on critical decisions.
• You'll be conducting thorough quality assurance of implementation in a methodical manner and resolving any discrepancies. Your contribution will be pivotal in ensuring the precision, efficiency, and seamless integration of pricing strategies across client's global e-commerce platform.
• You'll work with tools like SQL to query data, use spreadsheets to organize it, and slides to present it, along with a number of other modern analytics tools.

Responsibilities:

• Performance management of sellers through the creation and maintenance of management reporting.
• Build targeted insights to inform the development of new seller offers.
• Lead the implementation of pricing strategies within client's pricing engine.
• Conduct testing and review of pricing configurations to verify accuracy and functionality.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies or issues identified during the pricing system implementation.
• Conduct audits of pricing data to verify accuracy and compliance with established pricing guidelines.
• Effectively communicate with team members and stakeholders regarding pricing system changes, updates, and issue resolutions.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years experience in operations, ideally in pricing operations, system implementation, or related roles in the financial services industry.
• CA, CFA preferred.
• Experience in coding and/or data visualization (e.g., SQL, Python, Tableau).
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Accounting/ Finance, Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering or related quantitative field.
• Familiarity with business intelligence visualization tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for effective cross-functional teamwork.