Senior Analyst, Analytics and Insights
GitLab
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Senior
Tech Stack
SQLTableau
About the role
- Collaborate with Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Product partners to frame data-centric business questions and deliver clear, actionable insights.
- Analyze complex, cross-functional datasets to identify trends, risks, and opportunities that inform strategic and operational decisions.
- Support Finance leadership with analytics and reporting for key initiatives, including quarterly earnings call preparation and other executive priorities.
- Build, maintain, and enhance dashboards and reports that make financial and business performance easy to understand for non-technical stakeholders.
- Ensure data quality, accuracy, and consistency by validating inputs, troubleshooting discrepancies, and partnering with Data team members on fixes.
- Present complex analyses in a simple, compelling way through written narratives, visualizations, and live discussions with stakeholders.
- Identify data gaps and define clear requirements for new data, logging, and measurement in partnership with the Data team and product management.
- Drive the adoption of data-driven decision-making within the Finance Analytics & Insights team by proactively sharing insights and best practices.
Requirements
- Experience working in a similar analytics and insights role within a B2B SaaS environment, ideally focused on finance or revenue-related topics.
- Proficiency in SQL and in using business intelligence and data visualization tools such as Tableau to build and maintain dashboards and reports.
- Background in developing, validating, and maintaining analytics datasets, dashboards, and recurring reporting with strong attention to data quality and accuracy.
- Ability to translate complex, ambiguous data into clear, structured insights that connect business objectives, key performance indicators, and actionable recommendations.
- Skill in identifying data gaps, defining clear requirements, and partnering with data and product teams to improve data capture and underlying data structures.
- Effective communication and stakeholder management skills, including presenting findings to non-technical audiences and collaborating with partners in Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Product.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, collaborative, and asynchronous environment, managing multiple priorities and driving work independently.
- Openness to candidates with diverse backgrounds and transferable skills who can demonstrate strong analytical thinking, business acumen, and a data-informed approach to decision-making.
Benefits
- Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Team Member Resource Groups
- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Growth and Development Fund
- Parental leave
- Home office support
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SQLdata analysisdata visualizationdashboard developmentreportingdata quality validationanalytics dataset maintenancebusiness intelligencedata-driven decision-makingfinancial analysis
Soft skills
effective communicationstakeholder managementanalytical thinkingbusiness acumencollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailindependent workadaptabilitypresentation skills