Instacart

Senior Data Analyst

Instacart$144K — $152K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • 5+ years (7+ preferred) of experience in data analytics or analytics engineering roles
  • Strong SQL proficiency and cloud data fundamentals, including hands-on experience with Snowflake and dbt
  • Demonstrated experience building complex data pipelines focusing on accuracy and compliance
  • Familiarity with financial data structures and accounting processes
  • Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical teams

Responsibilities

  • Translate business needs into scalable data models by asking insightful questions
  • Transform ambiguous ideas into clear, high-impact data projects
  • Design and automate dashboards and reporting systems for strategic insights
  • Build and maintain financial data products supporting Revenue Accounting
  • Apply compliance principles to support audits and data governance
  • Implement frameworks ensuring data accuracy and reliability
  • Identify opportunities for process optimization and system enhancements
  • Utilize AI technologies to innovate financial data modeling and delivery

Benefits

  • Flexible remote work policy
  • Market-competitive compensation
  • Equity grant opportunities
  • Annual refresh grants
  • Comprehensive benefits offerings
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a highly skilled and intellectually curious analyst to shape the future of financial data at Instacart, driving innovation at the intersection of systems, analytics, and business strategy.

In this role, you will architect and deliver data models, pipelines, and reporting infrastructure that empower Finance and Accounting with trusted insights at scale.

You'll collaborate across technical and business teams to ensure financial data is accurate, reliable, and compliant, while also advancing large-scale systems initiatives, accelerating the month-end close, and optimizing cloud spend in our AWS environment.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Financial Data Analytics team is the connective tissue between Finance, Accounting, and Engineering. Our mission is to deliver trusted financial data that is both a foundation for compliance and a catalyst for strategic decision-making. We combine technical depth with financial expertise to build scalable, high-value data solutions-transforming complexity into clarity and empowering leaders to act with confidence.

ABOUT THE JOB
  • Bridge Data & Business Needs - Translate business requirements into scalable data models by asking the right questions, digging into details, and mining insights that create measurable impact.
  • Own Data Initiatives End-to-End - Take ambiguous ideas and transform them into well-defined, high-impact projects with clear deliverables.
  • Build Decision-Making Tools - Design and automate dashboards, models, and reporting systems that surface clear insights and guide long-term growth strategies.
  • Support Revenue Accounting - Build and maintain data products (dashboards, reports, analyses) that underpin the Revenue Accounting organization, including embedding revenue recognition logic into robust financial data models.
  • Ensure Compliance & Governance - Apply compliance-first design principles to support SOX, audit readiness, and enforce data governance standards.
  • Maintain Data Integrity - Implement validation, monitoring, and reconciliation frameworks to ensure accuracy, consistency, and reliability across financial datasets.
  • Drive Continuous Improvement - Proactively identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and system enhancement, unlocking efficiency across Finance and Accounting.
  • Leverage AI & Next-Generation Analytics - Harness cutting-edge AI technologies (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Python ML libraries, Copilot) to reimagine how financial data is modeled, automated, and delivered-accelerating insights, scaling workflows, and shaping the future of financial analytics.


ABOUT YOU

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • 5+ years (7+ preferred) of experience in data analytics or analytics engineering roles
  • Strong SQL and cloud data fundamentals, with hands-on experience in Snowflake, dbt, and BI tools (Mode, Looker, Tableau, etc.)
  • Experience building and supporting complex data pipelines with emphasis on accuracy, compliance, and traceability
  • Familiarity with financial data structures, accounting processes, and enterprise systems (e.g., Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, Adaptive)
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively across technical and non-technical teams


Preferred Qualifications
  • Public company experience with exposure to SOX compliance
  • Background in high-growth technology environments
  • Experience implementing large-scale financial or operational systems (ERP, enterprise data platforms, etc.)
  • Project management experience a plus
  • Demonstrated ability to support Finance and Accounting teams with scalable data solutions
  • Cloud cost management experience, ideally in an AWS environment
  • Familiarity with AI/ML applications in data analytics (e.g., natural language SQL tools, forecasting models, anomaly detection frameworks)

#LI-Remote

Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the base pay range for a successful candidate is dependent on their permanent work location. Please review our Flex First remote work policy here.

Offers may vary based on many factors, such as candidate experience and skills required for the role. Additionally, this role is eligible for a new hire equity grant as well as annual refresh grants. Please read more about our benefits offerings here.

For US based candidates, the base pay ranges for a successful candidate are listed below.

CO, DE, HI, IL, ME, MD, MA, NH, OR, PA, RI, TX, VT, VA, DC

$144,000-$152,000 USD

AL, AK, AZ, AR, FL, GA, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, NC, ND, OH, OK, SC, SD, TN, UT, WV, WI, WY

$131,000-$138,000 USD

About Instacart

Instacart is an American company that operates a grocery delivery and pick-up service in the United States and Canada. The company offers its services via a website and mobile app. The service allows customers to order groceries from participating retailers with the shopping being done by a personal shopper. Instacart was founded in 2012 by entrepreneur Apoorva Mehta, a former Amazon.com employee. Apoorva was born in India and moved with his family to Canada in 2000. He studied engineering at the University of Waterloo and graduated in 2008. He was a participant in Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch, which eventually led to the creation of Instacart. In 2013, Mehta was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Apoorva previously worked at BlackBerry, Qualcomm, and then Amazon as a supply chain engineer, where he developed fulfillment systems to move packages from Amazon's warehouses to customers' homes. Before founding Instacart, Apoorva had tried to start at least 20 other services. He tried building an ad network for social gaming companies, and developing a social network specifically for lawyers, among other start-ups. Instacart originally launched in San Francisco. By April 2015, the firm had about 200 employees. It introduced a new policy around June allowing some shoppers to choose to be part-time employees, starting with Chicago and Boston and extending its offer to shoppers in Atlanta, Miami, and Washington D.C. the following month.
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