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📊FinTech Data Analyst

Turns broken custodian feeds into board-ready dashboards.

Sourced from 9 recent JDs · snapshot taken 2026-06-20

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What this role pays — by city, years & skill stack

New York · Wall Street + wirehouses + a fintech bench
$106k
$91k – $125k median band

Illustrative ranges — calibrated from Levels.fyi, Glassdoor and Robert Half wealth-tech guides. Real offers vary widely by firm, equity, and team. Use this to compare cities & skill stacks, not as a quote.

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Identical

How FinTech Data Analyst reads across sectors — depth, orientation and the tools each side actually runs.

Wealth

Advisor, flows and household analytics.

Asset

Holdings, performance and risk analytics.

How the work gets done

The same four lenses applied to every capability and skill page.

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Day-in-the-life

Thursday — the custodian feed dropped 1,400 lots

Your nightly reconciliation finds breaks on 1,400 tax-lots. You write a quick pandas script to bucket them by symbol and date, find the culprit (a corporate action with the wrong CUSIP), and prototype a RAG check over the issuer's 8-K to flag the next one automatically.

Top skills for this role

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How this role evolves

As advisor-facing agents mature, the work splits into judgment humans keep and execution agents own.

Humans keep doing
  • →Break investigation
  • →Storytelling for ops
  • →Model-risk judgment
Agents take over
  • →Nightly reconciliation flagging
  • →8-K monitoring
  • →Dashboard auto-generation
Adjacent future role
🤖AI / Agentic-AI Engineer — Wealth

You build Dynasty Financial's AI agent that ingests an advisor's full client book from Addepar, retrieves relevant plann

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How to land — and survive — as a FinTech Data Analyst

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    Run the Skill DNA drill — see where you stand on Data reconciliation across silos
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  2. Step 2 · Premium · full playbook
    FinTech Data Analyst playbook (preview)

    Hand-curated checklists, real templates, and the failure modes nobody documents — see the first 30% free.

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  3. Step 3 · 1:1 · operator session
    Mock interview with an operator

    30-minute 1:1: role-specific case prompts, portfolio review, and offer-negotiation talk-track.

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