Senior Data & Financial Analytics Engineer (m/f/d)

ABOUT US

Pliant is a European fintech specialising in B2B payment solutions. Our modular, API-first platform helps businesses streamline spending, improve cash flow, and integrate payments into their financial workflows. Designed for industries with complex payment needs, such as travel and fleet, Pliant enables greater efficiency, control, and profitability.

We serve two primary customer segments:

• Companies looking to optimise operational processes through intuitive apps and APIs, gaining control, automation, and financial flexibility through extended credit lines.
• Businesses such as financial software platforms, ERP providers, and banks that want to launch or enhance their credit card offerings using Pliant’s embedded finance and white-label solutions.

Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin, Pliant supports over 4,000 businesses and more than 20 partners globally. As a licensed e-money institution (EMI), we issue credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries, helping companies streamline and simplify payments.

Learn more at

www.getpliant.com

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Senior Data & Financial Analytics Engineer at Pliant, you will turn complex financial data into scalable, reliable insights that drive business decisions. You’ll build and own end-to-end data solutions, partner closely with Finance and leadership, and ensure a trusted, single source of truth for key financial metrics.

Ideally this role will be based in either Berlin or Munich, but we can consider other locations.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Financial Analytics & Business Partnering

• Partner with Finance, Leadership, and Business teams to translate business questions into actionable data solutions
• Own and continuously evolve core financial metrics, ensuring they remain accurate, relevant, and trusted across the organization
• Deliver high-impact analyses that drive strategic and operational decisions
• Ensure full alignment with accounting standards and financial processes

Solution Engineering & Data Architecture

• Design and implement end-to-end data solutions tailored to financial use cases
• Build and maintain robust ELT pipelines and scalable data models
• Architect data warehouses and semantic layers that serve both finance and business users
• Translate stakeholder requirements into production-grade data products
• Continuously optimize for data performance, reliability, and cost efficiency

Analytics Engineering & BI

• Develop and maintain clean, well-documented data models that teams can rely on
• Create intuitive dashboards and self-serve analytics tools that empower non-technical users
• Define and enforce a single source of truth for business metrics across the organization

Stakeholder Management & Solution Design

• Lead requirements gathering through structured stakeholder interviews and workshops
• Act as an internal solution architect, bridging technical capabilities and business needs
• Contribute to scoping, pricing, and estimation of data and analytics projects
• Communicate complex data topics clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences

Data Governance & Strategy

• Drive data quality, consistency, and governance frameworks across the organization
• Champion cross-functional alignment on metric definitions and data standards
• Actively contribute to the broader data strategy and analytics roadmap

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Core Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in financial analytics and reporting
• Solid background in analytics engineering or data engineering
• Advanced SQL proficiency and experience with the modern data stack
• Proven experience building data models, warehouses, and BI layers at scale

Financial Domain Expertise

• Deep understanding of accounting principles and financial processes
• Familiarity with regulatory reporting frameworks
• Understanding of reconciliation processes across regulatory, accoun