Senior Data Analyst, Data & Audit Readiness

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Collaborate on the technical coordination and oversight layer for shared datasets and systems relevant to audit, including financial systems, recordkeeping, and downstream reporting processes.

• Lead enhancements to governance, communication, and coordination regarding upstream schema and logic modifications that impact downstream systems and audit-related workflows.

• Assist in technical analysis and downstream impact evaluation during change management for datasets, tables, and systems subject to audit.

• Create and sustain reusable audit-ready dataset patterns, incorporating automated validation, data quality checks, and monitoring processes.

• Evaluate audit-scoped processes and datasets, identify operational challenges, and suggest reengineering and long-term process enhancements.

• Offer technical direction to business stakeholders and the Audit PM concerning specific audit inquiries.

• Construct ETL pipelines, dashboards, and audit-ready data architecture to facilitate data-driven audit testing.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in data analytics or data engineering, preferably supporting internal audit, risk, or SOX compliance functions in fintech, payments, financial markets, or crypto sectors.

• Experience in managing and designing data architecture within a regulated setting.

• Proven track record in designing and developing data pipelines with governance, traceability, and audit requirements taken into account from the beginning.

• Practical experience in building and managing production data pipelines.

• Strong knowledge of dbt and Airflow or similar orchestration tools.

• Complete mastery of SQL, including complex joins, CTEs, and analytical functions.

• Proficient in Python for pipeline development and analysis.

• Experience in documenting technical and business requirements, which includes metadata, KPI definitions, business rules, data process flows, and data dictionaries.

• Familiarity with job scheduling, error/exception handling, and troubleshooting production ETL workflows.

• Experience collaborating with Data Engineering and/or Data Governance teams on shared datasets, schema changes, and downstream impact assessments.

• Ability to convert audit and business requirements into technical specifications, and articulate technical work in terms understandable to non-technical stakeholders.

• Nice-to-have: experience in scaling a data analytics function within an audit or risk organization.

• Nice-to-have: knowledge of AI-assisted or automation tools for data quality checks, testing, or workflow efficiency.

• Nice-to-have: familiarity with audit management platforms such as AuditBoard, Jira, or Workiva.

• Applicants are required to specify the city and country from which they will work and indicate whether they need sponsorship to work in that location.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement

• Opportunity to work for Payward/Kraken, a globally accessible financial infrastructure and crypto platform

• Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently during hiring

• Equal opportunity employment and consideration of qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance