Job Specifications
About DAT
Discover your future at DAT Freight & Analytics, where innovation meets impact. For over four decades, DAT has been at the forefront of transportation and logistics, helping businesses move freight with greater efficiency and confidence. We are a technology company that removes uncertainty from freight for truckers, brokers, and shippers every day. Our advanced tools and data intelligence empower professionals to make smarter decisions, optimize costs, and operate more successfully. Through the industry's largest digital freight marketplace and insights derived from over $1 trillion in freight transactions, we provide the mission-critical information that keeps supply chains running smoothly across the country. DAT is proud to be an award-winning workplace that fosters innovation, celebrates success, and values professional growth. With strategic offices in Beaverton, Oregon, Denver, Colorado, Springfield, Missouri, and Bangalore, India, our teams collaborate to solve the transportation industry's most complex challenges. Ready to shape the future of freight technology? Learn more at dat.com/company.
Application Deadline: 8/15/2025
The Opportunity
DAT is looking for a Business Strategy Analyst to join our Outgo Business Strategy team in Seattle.
Outgo is a fintech platform built specifically for truckers' needs. We provide a vertical banking solution that combines invoicing, accounting, factoring, and banking in one platform to optimize cash flow and eliminate exorbitant rates, hidden fees, and long contracts. Our mission is to revolutionize money management for trucking companies and help them save money while growing their businesses.
We are seeking a Business Analyst to join a new Business Strategy team. This role will be responsible for driving strategy and improving efficiency across our various business teams. The ideal candidate will leverage data-driven insights to inform strategic decisions, support product direction, and enhance team performance through the development and reporting of key performance indicators (KPIs).
The ideal candidate is proficient in financial and business analysis and is capable of independent critical thinking. As a growth stage company it's necessary for every member of the team to wear many hats. You'll be supporting several teams initially, including sales, marketing, onboarding, underwriting, risk and factoring operations, each with very different goals and processes.
You are someone who:
Has an analytical mindset and think critically and independently
You believe that data-driven decision making is critical to the success of an organization and good analysis is an extremely high leverage activity
You are curious and have a thirst for knowledge and continuous improvement
You are thoughtful about the presentation of your work and communicate
You check your work
You're able to partner cross functionally and collaborate with management of different teams to drive results
You're able to distill analytical work into digestible presentations and communicate learnings clearly
You are willing to work hard to win
What You'll Do
Strategic & ad-hoc analysis: Conduct deep-dive and ad-hoc analyses to support decision-making across Operations, Risk, Growth, and Support functions; identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce risk, and drive performance.
Performance reporting & KPIs: Develop and maintain dashboards and periodic reports tracking financial, operational, and team-specific KPIs; highlight emerging trends for leadership and functional managers.
Leadership: Prepare materials for executive leadership team presentations and assist with questions and requests for information.
Growth: Analyze receivables, collections, and underwriting performance to inform credit policy and loss forecasting.
Partnerships: Support evaluation of strategic partnerships and preparation of discussion materials.
Treasury operations & credit management: Forecast daily and weekly cash flows; recommend credit facility draws, monitor liquidity, and produce borrowing base certificates and related collateral reporting required by credit partners.
The Skills And Experience You'll Bring
2+ years experience in analytics or financial modeling, e.g. investment banking, private equity, management consulting, or corporate finance or strategy
Expertise in Excel modeling and data analysis - you will be tested on this
Competency in, or willingness to learn, SQL and/or other data analytics tools
Bonus for experience with Tableau
Why DAT?
DAT is an award winning employer of choice.
For starters, we have a hybrid work environment, but we also know what makes a great workplace. We have a time-tested and resolute set of operating values predicated on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and executing with excellence. These values inform our strategic vision as much as any one of our products does. We've been an employer of choice in the Portland metropolitan area for four decades, and within one year of opening our Denver office, DAT was #26 on Built In Colorado's 100 Best Places to Work In Colorado.
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
Parental Leave
Up to 20 days of paid time off starting in year one
An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
401k matching (immediately vested)
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
Flexible Spending Accounts
Health Savings Accounts
Tuition Reimbursement Program
Employee Assistance Program
Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)
Competitive salary and benefits package
Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
Collaborative and supportive team culture
Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
Employee Resource Groups
For Washington-based candidates, in compliance with the Washington States Pay Transparency Law, the minimum salary for this role is $121,000.00 + benefits. The maximum compensation for this role can vary significantly depending on your job-related skills and experience. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.
DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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About the Company
DAT Freight & Analytics operates DAT One, North America's largest truckload freight marketplace; DAT iQ, the industry's leading freight data analytics service; and Trucker Tools, the leader in load visibility. Shippers, transportation brokers, carriers, news organizations, and industry analysts rely on DAT for market trends and data insights, informed by nearly 700,000 daily load posts and a database exceeding $1 trillion in freight market transactions. Founded in 1978, DAT is a business unit of Roper Technologies (Nasdaq: R...
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