Data Analyst

About PayPay

PayPay, a FinTech company that has achieved more than 69M users (as of May 2025) since its launch in 2018, is rapidly expanding its business scale as a payment platform used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan.

The company has a diverse team of professionals from more than 50 countries and is building a world-class engineering organization.

Our biggest competitor is "cash". They are seeking people who can accept this challenge positively, brush up on the product at a tremendous speed that other companies could never achieve, and who are passionate about promoting and spreading such a financial life platform in a short time along with professionalism.

PayPay is committed to maintaining a "Day 1" mindset, bringing to life visions of the future that no one else can even imagine. At PayPay, we provide an environment where everyone can deliver outstanding performance as professionals, through a flexible work style that includes remote and office.

Position

As a Data Analyst in the Product Division at PayPay, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our ecosystem's convenience and profitability. Leveraging the vast amounts of data from over 65 million users and 2.35 million merchants, you will drive increased user engagement and usage frequency, thereby contributing to PayPay's growth and revenue.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and executives to support data-driven decision-making with reliable data analysis and deliver actionable insights.
• Proactively analyze data to answer key questions for stakeholders, verify independent ideas and competitive examples, and make suggestions for product and function development and improvement.
• Design and propose product KPIs, creating and maintaining dashboards, and monitoring relevant data.
• Contribute to data-driven processes and initiatives, including knowledge sharing, rule creation, stakeholder support, and education. Develop clear documentation and educational materials, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Create and maintain rich interactive visualizations through data interpretation and analysis from multiple data sources.
• Interact cross-functionally with product, business planning, marketing, and sales teams to share analytical knowledge and collaborate on projects.
• Design and build data warehouses and data marts for responsible products, making it easy for anyone to utilize product data.
• Evangelize a data-driven culture throughout the organization, improving experimental/test design, contributing to best practices, and partnering with stakeholders and data partners.

Technical Environment: BigQuery, LookerStudio, JupyterLab, Google Analytics, dbt, and GitHub.

Your qualification

• At least 3 years of experience in data analysis.
• Expertise in statistics (understanding of correlation, causation, various tests, etc.)
• Skills in designing, validating, visualizing, and reporting A/B tests
• Demonstrated ability to generate data insights to understand and measure business goals while proactively identifying business opportunities.
• Proven ability to build trust and relationships with diverse stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in promoting a data-driven culture within a company.
• Analysis experience using large-scale data.
• Experience in building data warehouses/data marts.
• Experience in the payments, financial technology, or e-commerce space.
• Management experience within an analyst organization.
• Japanese language skills.

What we offer

• Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)
• 401K
• Language Learning support
• Translation/Interpretation support
• VISA sponsor + Relocation support

Additional details

PayPay 5 senses

• Please refer PayPay 5 senses to learn what we value at work

Working Conditions 

Employment Status

• Full Time

Office Location

• Hybrid Workstyle (flexible working style including Remote and office)
  *There are no fixed rules regarding office attendance in Product group; it depends on each individual's discretion.

• LIFE in JAPAN FACTBOOK

Work Hours

• Super Flex Time (No Core Time)
• In principle, 9:00am-5:45pm (actual working hours: 7h45m + 1h break)

Holidays

• Every Sat/Sun/National holidays (In Japan)/New Year's break/Company-designated Special days

Paid leave

• Annual leave (up to 14 days in the first year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment. Can be used from the date of hire)
• Personal leave (5 days each year, granted proportionally according to the month of employment)
  *PayPay's own special paid leave system, which can be used to attend to illnesses, injuries, hospital visits, etc., of the employee, family members, pets, etc.

Salary

• Annual salary paid in 12 installments (monthly)
• Based on skills, experience, and abilities
• Reviewed once a year
• Special Incentive once a year *Based on company performance and individual contribution and evaluation
• Late overtime allowance
  
  *Payroll payment can be changed to digital salary payment “PayPay Paycheck” for an amount set by you