Finance Analyst, AI/Automation
Builds AI-driven financial automation and analytics for Cognitiv’s adtech platform, combining FP&A expertise with SQL/Python to transform reporting, forecasting, and cash flow management into proactive decision-support tools.
- Compensation
- $120K–$145K / yr
- Location
- New York, NY
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Finance
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- The Foundation: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Finance First: 3 to 5 years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, strategic finance, or another highly analytical finance function.
- Strong SQL Skills: Comfortable independently querying a data warehouse and working with complex datasets. You can join data across multiple tables, transform and aggregate data, investigate discrepanc
- Comfortable Working with APIs and Technical Documentation: Able to read API documentation, understand how systems expose and structure data, and use that information to retrieve data or connect workfl
- AI as a Force Multiplier: Actively use AI tools to accelerate technical work, from drafting and debugging code to exploring automation opportunities. You understand that AI can help you build faster,
- Relentlessly curious: You are not satisfied reporting that a number moved; you want to know why it moved, and you surface the metrics leadership did not know to ask for.
- Decision-minded: You frame the question leadership should be asking, design the scenarios, tell the story, and act as the human check on the AI before its output reaches the team.
- Planning for What's Next: Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and financial modeling.
- Numbers into Narratives: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable business insights and recommendations.
- Influence Through Insight: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to both finance and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Builder's Mentality: A proactive, self-directed individual who enjoys creating new processes, driving automation, and thriving in environments with significant ownership and ambiguity.
Full description
Are you ready to revolutionize the advertising industry?
At Cognitiv, we are not just another AdTech company—we are industry trailblazers redefining media buying with our Deep Learning Advertising Platform. Since 2015, we have harnessed the power of cutting-edge deep learning technology and data science to transform how brands connect with their customers. Our mission? To bring intelligence to advertising and deliver unparalleled precision, relevance, and impact at scale.
With our innovative platform, advertisers enjoy unprecedented flexibility—whether it is activating Dynamic Deals through their preferred DSP, leveraging our managed service DSP, or utilizing our industry-first ContextGPT product. As a part of Cognitiv, you will be at the forefront of AI-driven advertising solutions, driving change and achieving remarkable growth in a rapidly evolving industry.
Now, we’re growing!
The Role
At Cognitiv, we're building the next generation of finance. As our first Finance & AI Analyst, you'll combine financial expertise with hands-on technical skills to transform how Finance accesses data, builds reporting, and makes business decisions.
With a next gen ERP platform, a new order management system, and an evolving data stack, you'll build the automation, reporting, and analytical capabilities that enable Finance to move faster and make smarter decisions. You'll use SQL and Python to pull, transform, and structure data, work directly with APIs and technical documentation to connect platforms, and leverage AI to accelerate development and scale what you build.
Alongside building these capabilities, you'll own core financial planning and analysis responsibilities, including budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, and executive reporting. You'll have the opportunity to shape how Finance operates at a growing technology company, with significant ownership over both the financial analysis and the systems that support it.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys building systems from the ground up, is excited by automation workflows, and wants to redefine how Finance operates and strategizes inside a fast-growing technology company.
This position will be located in New York City with a hybrid work schedule of 3 days in office (Monday–Wednesday) and 2 optional remote days (Thursday–Friday).
What You'll Do
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Build and Automate Finance Data Workflows: Use SQL and Python to query, transform, and validate data across our data warehouse, ERP, order management system, and advertising platforms. Work directly with API documentation to understand how systems expose data and build workflows that connect platforms, automate recurring processes, and make reporting reliable, repeatable, and scalable. Leverage AI to accelerate development and reduce manual work across the Finance function.