Finance Data & Automation Analyst

Finance Data & Automation Analyst

Reconciliations · Data Warehouse · Reporting Group-wide role (UK & Poland, expanding internationally) ·

Poznań (hybrid) or remote · works directly with the CFO

Company overview

Embargo is a fast-growing hospitality technology platform that helps restaurants, bakeries and cafés drive customer loyalty and revenue through customer data, online ordering, CRM tools and integrated payments. The platform already supports more than 3,000 venues. It is now entering its next phase of scale with the launch of new products and international expansion.

Role summary

Embargo is scaling rapidly, from around $2M ARR towards $10M+. To make that happen, the organisation has to run on clean, automated data, and this role is where that starts.

You join us with strong technical skills, real drive and a head full of ideas. We give you the space to use them to their full potential: you will shape Embargo’s finance function together with the CFO. You will build the data, controls and reporting that the organisation can rely on. You will see the direct impact of your work on how the company is run and funded.

We’re a startup, so this is not a role for someone who wants to stay at the dashboard level. You will need to get into the details: tracing a single transaction from a customer’s card to our books, finding why two numbers differ, and then making sure nobody has to check it by hand again. If something can be automated, we will expect you to automate it.

Core responsibilities

Reconciliations and payments data

• Run weekly and monthly reconciliations: billing payment processor bank accounting system.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies, including processor fees, refunds, chargebacks, timing and FX differences, duplicates and unallocated payments.
• Build the reconciliation and data foundations for transaction-based products as they scale.

Data warehouse and automation

• Develop the finance data warehouse by designing and extending a data model that covers every area of the business, not just payments.
• Turn recurring checks into automated SQL controls.
• Automate invoicing and data flows between systems, and remove manual work from finance wherever you find it.

Management reporting

• Develop the monthly management pack and KPI dashboards: ARR, MRR, churn, NRR, CAC, LTV, deferred revenue, cohorts, and costs by cost centre.
• Provide the data behind transaction-based reporting: GMV, take rate and margins.
• Supply the numbers for the CFO’s budgeting, forecasting, runway and cash-flow planning.
• Prepare and analyse the data behind board and investor reporting.

Finance operations

• Review entries in the accounting systems and deliver reconciled data to stakeholders.
• Own purchase invoice completeness: match bank and card transactions to supplier invoices, chase what is missing, and automate collection so that every cost is documented before month-end close.
• Document processes, so that finance can scale without depending on any one person.

Where this role can take you

• First months: you take over reconciliations and help clean up the source data.
• Next stage: you own the finance data warehouse and the full reporting cycle.
• Longer term: as Embargo grows, there is room for this role to grow too, working with the leadership team and possibly building a team.

What we are looking for

• 3-5 years’ experience in reconciliations, revenue operations, finance operations and/or financial data analytics, ideally in fintech, payments or SaaS.
• Strong SQL skills.
• Hands-on use of AI tools to speed up analysis, coding and automation.
• A solid grasp of accounting fundamentals, including revenue recognition principles.
• Experience with payment processors such as Stripe.
• Experience building reports or data models that other people rely on.
• Advanced Excel (Power Query, Data Model) and Power BI.
• Curiosity: you don’t let go until you understand where a difference comes from.
• A builder’s mindset: you see a manual process and think about how to automate it.
• Ambition to grow into a finance leadership role and take responsibility for an ever-wider area.
• Comfort in a fast-moving, founder-led environment.
• English at C1 level.

What we offer

• Real impact: your work shapes how Embargo’s finance function is built as the company scales.
• Room to grow into a finance leadership role as Embargo scales.
• Working directly with the CFO, with day-to-day mentoring.
• A central role in building the data warehouse and reporting, with full ownership as the role grows.
• Hybrid working (office in Poznań) or fully remote.
• Employment contract with salary depending on experience and skills. B2B is also possible.