Senior Data Analyst

Summary

Join Vanta as a Senior Data Analyst on the Strategic Finance team and play a pivotal role in shaping company-wide planning, forecasting, and strategic decision-making. You will blend analytical rigor, technical fluency, and business acumen to steer financial strategy and identify growth opportunities. Collaborate with stakeholders across various teams to build trust and deliver data-driven recommendations. Your work will influence operating plans, investment decisions, self-service reporting, and process automation. This role offers the chance to deepen your analytics expertise in a dynamic, high-growth environment with visibility into executive-level priorities. You will have the opportunity to shape these priorities with data.

Requirements

• Experience: 4+ years of experience in data analysis or equivalent function
• Technical Skills: Strong proficiency in SQL and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Sigma), with experience handling large and complex data sets
• Analytical Thinking: Proven ability to analyze complex data sets, uncover key insights, and translate findings into actionable strategies that drive financial outcomes
• Collaboration: Demonstrated success working cross-functionally and building relationships across business teams. Comfortable engaging stakeholders with varying levels of data fluency
• Communication: Clear and effective communicator, both written and verbal. Skilled at presenting complex data insights to non-technical audiences
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Informatics, Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Deliver strategic insights by conducting deep, prioritized analyses that inform high-impact financial decisions
• Act as a technical partner to teams across RevOps, Analytics, Data Engineering, Marketing, and more—serving as a key liaison between Strategic Finance and the broader business
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate data into actionable recommendations that drive business outcomes
• Increase team efficiency by automating recurring deliverables and helping scale Strategic Finance workflows as the company grows
• Empower decision-makers with self-service dashboards and data assets that surface trends and drive informed choices across the business
• Advance our analytics infrastructure by partnering with Data Engineering to improve dataset development and evolve our overall analytical capabilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within SaaS, consulting, or investment banking types of industries is preferred
• Familiarity with DBT is preferred
• Bonus points for scripting skills in Python or R for advanced analysis
• A Master’s degree or higher is a plus

Benefits

• Industry-competitive compensation
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage
• 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends
• Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours and location
• Open PTO policy
• 11 paid holidays in the US