Data Analyst - freelance

About

Swan is Europe’s embedded banking specialist. We empower software companies to embed banking features like accounts, cards, and payments directly into their products, under their own brand.Swan processes over €1.5 billion in monthly transactions for more than 150 companies—like Pennylane, Indy, Agicap, Libeo, and Lucca. Founded in 2019, the company has received growth capital from leading investors such as Lakestar, Accel, Creandum, Bpifrance and Eight Roads. Swan is a principal member of Mastercard and a licensed financial institution, regulated by the French banking authority (ACPR).

Our mission

Banking belongs in business software

Many software companies already serve small businesses incredibly well: helping them send invoices, run payroll, manage inventory, and more. They’re on a mission to become the central hub for managing every aspect of business life.

But when it comes to financial workflows, there’s still a gap. Too many critical tasks like managing cash flow, tracking payments, or reconciling accounts happen outside the software, across spreadsheets, email threads, banking portals.

It’s a missed opportunity. Business software shouldn’t just record financial activity — it should run it.

To learn more about us: About Swan ; Our story.

Job description

Swan is looking for a full-stack Data Analyst to join our Data team. The current team is led by Romain, our VP data, and consists of 8 members with expertise in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering and Data Analytics.

You will work closely with Risk department and become a key partner in both their day-to-day operations and strategic projects. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of data and risk management. You will play an instrumental role in ensuring our payment solutions remain secure, efficient and scalable.

✨ Your mission

• Strategic Project Collaboration: Partner closely with Risk on strategic initiatives, contributing to all phases of projects - ideation, data exploration, solution development, and final implementation.
• Operational Support and Optimization: Provide hands-on support to the department’s daily operations by automating routine processes, developing scalable solutions, and delivering ad hoc analyses.
• Domain Ownership and Enablement: Act as the go-to data expert within the department, taking full ownership of all data-related inquiries and processes. Empower team members by developing resources and delivering training that facilitates self-service analytics and promotes effective data usage across the team.
• Internal Data Strategy: Help shape our data strategy by actively contributing to internal guidelines and best practices, suggesting process enhancement and adoption of new tools.

Preferred experience

✨ You’re a great match if:

• You should have a minimum of 3 years of experience as a Data Analyst, Analytics Engineer, or equivalent.
  
• Strong proficiency in SQL and hands-on experience in data modelling.
  
• Proven experience in project and stakeholder management, able to own projects from conception to execution with minimal supervision.
  
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and recommendations.
  
• Great communication skills, with the ability to present complex data to non-technical stakeholders in English.
  
• Passion, curiosity, and the capacity to learn quickly are important, as we are constantly exploring new technologies and approaches to improve our work.
  
• Ideally, you have already worked with DBT and a BI tool (Metabase, Looker, Tableau, etc).
  
• Ideally, you have already worked in Risk (Compliance, FinCrime or Internal Control) domains.
  
• Ideally, you have already worked in Fintech sector.
• Our ideal teammate: Empathetic. Skilled. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door.

It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes — don’t let imposter syndrome prevent you from applying! 🙌

Swan is committed to providing a caring work environment for all employees, regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

When it comes to recruitment, we’re interested in your work experience, skills, and overall personality. Because diversity makes the workplace stronger and is necessary for Swan’s success, we are intensifying efforts to incorporate concrete actions to help us improve in this area.

About Swan

✨ Our values:

Swan’s core values guide our actions daily. Individually, they may seem obvious, but together, they form a unique culture.

Simplicity: Leonardo Da Vinci said: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” If something's convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down. - Making complex things simple is what we do.

Long Term: We always play the long game, whether it's to support our partners in their growth journey, or make tangible commitments to climate action.

Excellence: We are a team of experts who consistently go all out to create pixel-perfect banking services and exceed our partners' expectations— whatever it takes.

Be Human: We believe in the power of kindness and the importance of acting with integrity. But embracing our humanity extends beyond interpersonal interactions, it means caring about greater issues that affect our planet.

You can find out more about our culture.

Recruitment process

• A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• Meet the team for 30 minutes
• Technical Interview for 1H
• Meet Romain, the VP Data, your direct manager