Finance’s mission is to help support Shopify’s growth over the long-term and ensure we achieve our objective of making commerce better for everyone. We are trusted advisors and growth partners to the business, always striving to learn, provide insights, solve complex problems and contribute positive impact. Finance also plays an important role at the strategic planning table and helps influence the future direction of Shopify.
We’re looking for Senior Financial Analysts (SFAs) and Financial Analysts (FAs) to join our Commercial Finance, Merchant Services, or Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) teams. In these roles, you will provide financial planning, analysis, and decision support to one or more areas of Shopify’s business. These roles may vary, for example if you join the Corporate FP&A team, you will lead our long term financial model, or dive into our metrics such as GMV and macro economics reporting and analysis to tell the story behind our growth. We’re looking for crafters that want to help improve quality, timeliness and depth of insight, ultimately enabling the organization to make great decisions quickly.
We are seeking talented individuals who, in addition to the above, have a passion for learning and leveraging technologies such as SQL, Python and AI to drive impactful data analysis. We think of Shopify as a crafter centric company where meetings come second to getting shit done. If you are an enthusiastic professional who’s looking to drive outcomes, who’s seeking to expand your experience in data analysis while pushing the boundaries of what's possible with cutting-edge tools, we would love to have you on board.
Shopify was built by thriving on change and pivoting quickly, so part of this process entails having that same mindset and keeping an open mind to the growth opportunities within the Finance team.
Please note that this posting will be used to fill roles on the teams at both the Financial Analyst and Senior Financial Analyst levels. Should your application move forward to the next stage, our hiring team will reach out and let you know for which level you are being considered.
You'll be doing things like:
Owning ongoing model development and business casing to evaluate growth initiatives, product launches, and overall business line performance
Partnering with data science, business operations, commercial and product teams, and Product Line leadership to analyze business drivers, identify areas of opportunity and risk, drive improvements to our unit economics, and strengthen LTV
Preparing monthly P&L and operational metric forecasts
Developing actionable management reporting, dashboards, and KPIs, and overseeing monthly variance analysis and operating reviews to track business success
Improve business processes by automating repetitive manual tasks, using tools like SQL, Python and AI
Fostering closer collaboration with business partners to advance our team's mission to make commerce better for everyone
Owning overall strategic business planning, including preparing annual investment plans and rolling long range plans
What you bring to the team:
Proven track record of driving significant impact in complex business situations
Significant experience in financial modeling and strategic business planning
Experience creating investment business cases in a fast-growth business
Strong understanding of SQL, with the ability to write complex queries, perform data extraction and manipulation, and maintain data integrity.
Familiarity with Python is a plus
A growth mindset, a builder’s mentality and a proven history of effective execution
The ability to thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous work environment and to navigate through change
Superior written and verbal communication skills, business partnering expertise, and an excellent ability to mentor and teach
Track record of strong performance in data science, management consulting, investment banking, accounting, FP&A, or a related field
Experience creating investment business cases in a fast-growth business
Experience working with a B2B marketing-sales team
Experience in tech, fintech or other SaaS-based business models