Financial Analyst (Data)

Lightspeed Commerce is a global leader in cloud-based commerce solutions, helping merchants innovate, simplify, and scale their businesses. Founded in 2005 in Montréal, we’re dedicated to creating exceptional experiences for our customers and fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We believe that our differences make us stronger and drive our mission to empower businesses around the world.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Financial Analyst at Lightspeed Commerce, you will play a pivotal role in supporting our financial operations and strategic initiatives. Your responsibilities will be distributed as follows:

Capital Business Support: Collaborate with our financial solutions team to analyze funding volumes, repayment trends, and portfolio performance. Support risk assessment and underwriting by tracking key portfolio metrics. Develop and automate financial reports and dashboards to monitor trends.

Financial Modeling and Strategy: Lead forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis. Build and refine financial models for revenue projections and scenario analysis. Collaborate with finance leadership to align financial insights with company strategy.

Data Analysis and Reporting: Extract, clean, and analyze data from systems such as BigQuery and Looker. Design and maintain data-driven financial dashboards. Utilize SQL and Python (if applicable) to query and manipulate large datasets, identifying trends and actionable insights.

What You Need to Bring

Experience & Education:

• • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field.
  • 1-3 years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, investment banking, or corporate finance.

Technical & Analytical Skills:

• • Strong proficiency in Google Sheets/Excel, including financial modeling, pivot tables, and complex formulas.
  • Comfortable working with large datasets and leveraging data to drive insights.
  • Strong SQL skills for querying financial and operational data.
  • Experience with Looker, Tableau, or other BI tools (or willingness to learn).

Communication & Collaboration:

• • Excellent communication skills to explain complex concepts in simple terms.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and build strong relationships with stakeholders.

Problem-Solving Attitude:

• Analytical and detail-oriented, with a strong ability to solve problems.
• Curious and eager to develop expertise in finance and strategic initiatives.
  Self-starter who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Passionate about process improvement and finding innovative solutions.

Bonus Skills (Nice-to-Have)

• Experience with financial services, lending, or alternative finance.
• Familiarity with BigQuery and financial database management.
• Understanding of capital allocation or investment analysis.
• Ability to use Python or R for advanced data analysis and modeling.

What’s In It For You:

Impact & Growth:

• • Play a key role in shaping our FP&A processes and driving operational excellence.
  • Work in an environment where your ideas matter and your growth is supported.

Culture: 

• Enjoy a flexible, hybrid work environment with competitive compensation, Lightspeed equity opportunities, and comprehensive benefits.
• Join a diverse, inclusive team committed to empowering our people and customers.

Benefits: 

• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture
• Innovation time to explore and learn at work
• Shaping the company by joining cultural & technical committees
• Tons of growth opportunities into technical or people management roles
• Opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-growth company
• Opportunity to learn, expand your skill set, forge wonderful relationships and make your mark within the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family, a true Canadian tech success story

….  And enjoy a range of benefits that will keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry.

• Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners).
• Flexible paid time off and remote work policies.
• Health insurance.
• Contributions to your pension plan - RRSP.
• Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year.
• Paid leave and assistance for new parents.
• Mental health online platform and counseling & coaching services.
• Training opportunities to grow your skills and career
• Volunteer day.
• Fully stacked kitchen (hot and cold beverages, meals served) 
• Happy hours to build your relationships with colleagues after work 

To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Where to from here?
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.

Who we are:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.