Affirm
Staff Analytics Engineer, Subledger Platform
Remote Accounting role with clear candidate location fit.
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Seniority signalLead
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Role overview
Staff Analytics Engineer, Subledger Platform
Requirements and responsibilities
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What you’ll do
- Build and own dbt models for the financial subledger platform (staging → intermediate → canonical facts/balances/marts → semantic), including naming conventions, macros, and reusable patterns.
- Implement strong data quality and controls in dbt: tests (unit/relationship/assertions), freshness, anomaly checks, and automated reconciliations that support close and audit readiness.
- Embed AI-assisted reconciliation capabilities into the platform (within appropriate security/controls guardrails): automate variance triage, suggest likely root causes, and generate human-reviewable reconciliation narratives and evidence artifacts.
- Own end-to-end subledger data products (e.g., event/fact layers, balance rollforwards, reconciliation outputs) with traceability from source events through transformations to reporting outputs.
- Partner with Accounting/Financial Reporting to translate requirements into clear model specifications (definitions, posting logic assumptions, tie-out rules) and ship them as durable dbt assets.
- Drive production operational ownership: monitoring/alerting, incident response, root-cause fixes, and release hygiene for the pipelines and models you own.
- Collaborate with upstream engineering teams to define inputs and improve source data quality via contracts and change management.
- Coach and develop one Analytics Engineer (Poland) via code review, pairing, scoped ownership, and clear technical direction.
What we look for
- Deep, hands-on analytics engineering experience: you have built and maintained production dbt projects (models, tests, macros, documentation, CI) and can own them end-to-end.
- Strong SQL and data modeling skills; experience building canonical datasets that support finance reporting, reconciliations, or other correctness-critical outcomes.
- Experience operating data pipelines in a warehouse environment (Snowflake preferred): performance tuning, cost awareness, and reliability practices.
- Strong programming skills (Python preferred) for building data tooling and automation (e.g., control checks, reconciliation workflows, utilities, CLIs, and integrations).
- Deep Snowflake technical expertise: architecture patterns (micro-partitioning/clustering, query optimization), security/governance (RBAC, masking policies), and operational excellence (monitoring, cost management, reliability).
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to lead ambiguous work through influence across Finance, Accounting, and Engineering stakeholders.
- Nice to have: Experience with accounting concepts (subledgers, journal entries/posting logic, balance rollforwards, tie-outs, close processes). Experience designing SOX-friendly controls and producing repeatable evidence from data pipelines. Experience applying AI/LLMs to data quality or reconciliation workflows (e.g., anomaly explanation, automated investigation summaries), with strong governance and human-in-the-loop review. AWS experience (nice to have): S3/IAM, data platform primitives, and cloud architecture concepts that support secure, reliable data products.
- Experience with accounting concepts (subledgers, journal entries/posting logic, balance rollforwards, tie-outs, close processes).
- Experience designing SOX-friendly controls and producing repeatable evidence from data pipelines.
- Experience applying AI/LLMs to data quality or reconciliation workflows (e.g., anomaly explanation, automated investigation summaries), with strong governance and human-in-the-loop review.
- AWS experience (nice to have): S3/IAM, data platform primitives, and cloud architecture concepts that support secure, reliable data products.
Details
- Experience with accounting concepts (subledgers, journal entries/posting logic, balance rollforwards, tie-outs, close processes).
- Experience designing SOX-friendly controls and producing repeatable evidence from data pipelines.
- Experience applying AI/LLMs to data quality or reconciliation workflows (e.g., anomaly explanation, automated investigation summaries), with strong governance and human-in-the-loop review.
- AWS experience (nice to have): S3/IAM, data platform primitives, and cloud architecture concepts that support secure, reliable data products.
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
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