Data Analyst, Finance

About this role

7shifts is a scheduling and payroll platform designed to help restaurant teams thrive. With an easy-to-use app and industry-specific solutions, 7shifts saves time, reduces errors, and helps keep costs in check for over 55,000 restaurants. Our mission is to simplify team management and improve performance for restaurants, with a long-term vision of creating a thriving restaurant industry through the power of connected & engaged teams.

As the
Data Analyst, Finance
at 7shifts, reporting to the Manager of Data & Analytics, you will act as a dedicated, embedded partner to our Finance team. You’ll serve as the strategic bridge between the central data function and the finance group, helping leadership measure what matters, uncover trends, and identify risks. Your expertise will guide the development of Finance-specific dashboards, forecast models, and automated reporting cadences that inform critical decisions. You’ll also be supported by a collaborative data team, including other analysts, analytics engineers, data engineers, and leaders, who work together to enable data-driven decisions across the company.

What you’ll do:

• Act as the primary, embedded data partner for the Finance team, participating in key cross-functional meetings to translate complex business questions into clear analytical frameworks
• Translate finance datasets into business narratives, proactively identifying patterns (e.g., Churn trends, Coupon Integrity) and leakages before they impact the bottom line
• Build, maintain, and own finance-specific dashboards, combining central "source of truth" data with finance-owned business logic
• Automate and streamline data preparation for key operational cadences, including monthly business reviews, to reduce manual lift and increase speed to insight
• Develop and maintain data models using dbt and SQL to transform raw data into clean, reliable, and scalable datasets for analysis and reporting
• Maintain deep subject matter expertise on all co...