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Interested in Numbers? Here's Where to Get Hired in 2018

Updated 6/24/2021
Interested in Numbers? Here's Where to Get Hired in 2018
Love numbers and digits? In today's data-obsessed society, there's plenty of demand for your skills. Check out these 19 companies!

Are you a master of math? A champion of your calculator? An expert of equations? Dexterous with digits?

If you’re nodding along right now, good for you! In today’s data-obsessed society, there are no shortage of employers who are looking for number whizzes.

Need proof? From accountants to analysts, these 19 awesome companies are currently on the lookout for math aficionados just like you. So, dust off that resume of yours and take a peek at their open roles.

You + a brand new gig = the perfect start to the new year. Isn’t that the easiest equation you’ve ever solved?

2. Altpoint Capital

Altpoint Capital has been a venture partner to founders and emerging growth companies since 2009. Altpoint Labs, a United States-based incubator for startups, operates under the Altpoint Capital umbrella. Altpoint Labs invests in high potential entrepreneurs at all stages of business development—creating long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs by providing not only capital, but also strategic advice, support, and growth plans for the future. Open to people and ideas from around the world, Altpoint Labs is committed to growing great businesses with disruptive ideas and strong execution teams.

Employees at Altpoint Labs all agree that the best benefit of working with the organization is the unique opportunity to develop diverse skill sets from each individual collaboration. Since the company works with entrepreneurs across all industries, Altpoint professionals end up wearing every hat possible and gaining experience and expertise that might otherwise take a lifetime to learn.

3. Billtrust

Billtrust accelerates and automates the invoice-to-cash process. Billtrust works with its clients to ensure that the time it takes for its clients to receive payments from their customers is as short as possible. The company’s streamlined, cloud-based solution allows its clients to increase productivity, cut costs, and improve customer relationships and cash flow.

The atmosphere at Billtrust is fast-paced and challenging. Billtrust lives by the saying, “There are no sacred cows,” so the company’s goal is progression, not perfection. This is why Billtrust values its employees’ ideas—and empowers them to think outside the box. Billtrust also has a Training Department dedicated to providing resources for employee success.

4. Pep

With locations in more than a dozen cities throughout the United States and Central America, Pep is a full-service project management firm that frees up clients to focus on the bigger business picture. The company takes care of timelines, budgets, and vendor coordination for every project, from direct mail and sweepstakes to training and events around the country, all through custom created PepConnect programs.

When Pep brings on a new hire, it provides a roadmap to success straight from the start. Mutual responsibilities and expectations are laid out right away, eliminating any question of accountability and allowing employees to create a career path in the way that works best for them—without anyone peeking over their shoulders.

5. Cleveland Research Company

Founded in 2006, Cleveland Research Company has a reputation for exceptional ground-level intelligence across consumer, agriculture, industrial, healthcare, retail, foodservice, and technology sectors. The firm is comprised of intellectually curious, highly motivated, and energetic individuals who are all striving to build the best research firm in the business. By training and developing employees, Cleveland Research Company drives businesses and people forward – both personally and professionally.

If you think a job with numbers involves being isolated in a cubicle, think again. At Cleveland Research Company, employees collaborate with client companies and people across the marketplace, engaging with every department on a daily basis. This unique team atmosphere, combined with high-energy, playfully competitive, and youthful co-workers, allows for a different type of dynamic to develop—that isn’t easily found anywhere else.

6. Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is one of 12 reserve banks created by Congress to help promote a healthy U.S. economy. Its mission is to maintain stable prices and maximum employment, while also serving as the fiscal agent for the government. While Cleveland Fed employees work on behalf of the American people, they are not government employees. The bank is committed to helping provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system.

At the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, numbers aren’t the same-old, same-old—the culture is focused on innovation and inclusion. From the top level of management down, there is a push for rethinking the old, outdated methods in favor of new, updated processes that benefit the organization and its employees. The reward is seeing how the Federal Reserve Bank is learning to do things differently—and better.

8. Optima Tax Relief

The experienced experts who work at Optima Tax Relief assist clients who have difficulties making IRS or state tax payments. The company specializes in cases where wage garnishments, bank levies, and liens are involved, using a unique two-phase approach that provides people with unparalleled clarity, control, and results as they proceed towards resolving their tax issues. It's no surprise Optima's been named to Inc. Magazine’s “Fastest-Growing Private Companies” list four years in a row!

Optima Tax Relief isn’t just a great place to work for people who love numbers—it’s a great place to work for anybody and everybody (just check out the company’s numerous “Best Places to Work” awards!). Much of that is owed to the supportive management style, which emphasizes respect and recognition.

9. Broadridge

Broadridge, a global fintech with $4 billion in revenue listed on the S&P 500, provides communications, technology, data, and analytics solutions. The company helps drive business transformation for clients with solutions for enriching client engagement, navigating risk, optimizing efficiency, and generating revenue growth. Broadridge works with some of the world’s largest financial institutions and over 5,000 brands in industries from telecommunications to healthcare.

If there’s one thing the financial industry is not, it’s stagnant. Fortunately, everybody at Broadridge is inspired by the challenge to keep up with the ever-changing landscape. “We operate in an industry that’s really feeling technology and innovation more than some others—which means the challenges and opportunities are both ample,” says Vijay Mayadas, SVP, Corporate Strategy and Head of U.S. Fixed Income.

10. Grubhub

Grubhub is the nation's leading online and mobile food ordering and delivery marketplace dedicated to connecting hungry diners with local takeout restaurants. The company’s online and mobile ordering platforms allow diners to order from more than 125,000 takeout restaurants in over 2,400 U.S. cities and London. The Grubhub portfolio of brands includes Grubhub, Seamless, LevelUp, Tapingo, AllMenus and MenuPages.

While several personal qualities can drive career success, at GrubHub, intellectual curiosity is key. GrubHub searches for applicants who can seek out and solve difficult problems—and it particularly encourages its new hires to look for analytical, data-driven processes for product innovation. Better still? GrubHub truly appreciates adventurous employees who will go the distance to explore new ideas—provided they always learn from their undertakings.

11. Brown Smith Wallace

Brown Smith Wallace is a nationally acclaimed, top 100, full-service CPA and business advisory firm that serves a variety of clients with audit, accounting, tax, and business consulting services. They're a team guided by its passion for supporting and impacting the growth and success of its clients, colleagues, and communities. Their firm culture can best be described as vision-led, familial, collaborative, empowering and ambitious. Employee engagement is inherent at Brown Smith Wallace and is the foundation for creating a great work environment. Thus, multi-functional teams work together throughout the year to develop programs and special events that foster collaboration, internal relationship building and community involvement. Brown Smith Wallace also has several employee-led committees that help the firm make critical policy decisions. As "The Firm for Growth", one of the ways they're fulfilling their vision is by cultivating exceptional career experiences to support and impact their employees' ability to grow and be successful. This results in smart, capable employees that deliver exceptional business advisory, tax and audit services to their clients on a daily basis.

Brown Smith Wallace serves clients large and small from a spectrum of industries. That means employees can grow their skills by experiencing a little bit of everything. There are many opportunities for launching and developing a career. The firm is also committed to encouraging a healthy work-life balance—even in the middle of tax season.

12. Credit Karma

A lot of people feel confused or anxious about their finances—Credit Karma wants to change that. Launched in 2007, the company provides free credit scores and reports along with tools, tips, and education to help its members understand their finances and feel confident about their options. With over 75 million members and counting, they’re on a mission to make finance friendlier for everyone.

At Credit Karma, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to leverage your number skills to create impactful projects and make a real difference in people’s lives. That’s because—while Credit Karma is no longer a startup—it still has the energy of a company that’s just getting started. Teams are always working on new products and tools to help its members take charge of their finances.

13. Edelman Financial Engines

Since 1986, Edelman Financial Engines has been committed to acting in best interest of clients. Founded on the belief that all American investors – not just the wealthy – deserve access to personalized, comprehensive financial planning and investment advice, they've become America’s top independent financial planning and investment advisor. Edelman Financial Engines has been recognized by both InvestmentNews and Barron’s, with 180+ planner offices across the country and entrusted by over 1.1 million clients to manage over $200 billion in assets. The company has a unique approach to serving clients that combines advanced methodology and proprietary technology with the attention of a dedicated planner. Every client’s situation and goals are unique, and the powerful fusion of high-tech and high-touch allows Edelman Financial Engines to deliver the personal plan and financial confidence that everyone deserves.

Employees at Financial Engines all love numbers. But, what do they love even more than digits and spreadsheets? Knowing their work is making a real, measurable difference. “Helping ordinary people along a path to financial freedom resonates through everything that we do,” shares Karen White, VP, Consumer Products.

14. LendKey

LendKey is solving a complex challenge—to improve lives with lending made simple—by helping financial institutions compete and provide a delightful customer experience in the digital age, while providing borrowers with the simple, transparent, digital borrowing experience they have come to expect and desire. LendKey works with hundreds of credit unions and banks to conduct their education and home improvement loan programs.

As a forward-thinking company, LendKey is always looking to find ways to utilize cutting-edge technology to accomplish its goals. Whether it’s through analyzing data in order to understand customers or finding groundbreaking ways to streamline the online lending process, LendKey embraces innovation, actively supporting its employees in on-the-job education.

15. Wealthfront

Wealthfront is reimagining how people invest their money. By building an automated investment service from the ground up to put the client first, Wealthfront is paving the way for a new generation of investors to achieve their financial goals. The company believes this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to change an industry and build something new—something different—something better.

How’s this for impressive numbers? Wealthfront has the fastest growing source of data on how people make real-world investing decisions. Investors don't always act rationally, and analyzing the data Wealthfront gathers allows them to better assist their clients when they're making choices with their money.

16. CommonBond

CommonBond is one of NYC's largest fintech companies and is focused on making paying for school—and paying off student debt—as affordable, simple, and transparent as possible. The company offers loans for current students, refinance loans for graduates, and its CommonBond for Business student loan benefits platform for employers. To date, CommonBond has saved its members over $500 million over the life of their loans. Plus, it offers a robust networking community, award-winning customer service, and a one-of-a-kind social promise that funds education for children in need.

Aside from great benefits (ahem, have we mentioned the weekly catered lunch-and-learns, free snacks, internal interest clubs, happy hours, and birthday and holiday celebrations?), CommonBond employees also get a perk fit for the industry: monthly payments toward their student debt. It’s CommonBond’s way of helping employees—just like members—get out of student debt and on the path to financial wellness, faster.

17. Financial Finesse

Financial Finesse is the muscle behind the movement to empower every American with access to a Personal Financial Coach ™. Founded in 1999, Financial Finesse inspired an entire industry by being the first to offer unlimited access to unbiased CFP ® professionals as an employee benefit. Today, the independent, employee-owned firm is the nation’s leading provider of workplace financial wellness benefits. On a mission to change lives and challenge the status-quo of the entire financial services industry in the process, Financial Finesse and their Financial Wellness Think Tank cohort provide a creative sanctuary for industry disruptors, outliers, and entrepreneurs alike.

Helping employees across the country reduce financial stress, maximize benefits, and make wiser financial decisions is a rewarding job—and, managers want their direct reports to feel the impact they’re making. For that reason, Financial Finesse’s direct management style provides plenty of autonomy and candid communication, which empowers team members to lead projects and transform their own ideas into actual results.

20. COUNTRY Financial

It all began in 1925 with roots firmly planted in agriculture. Since then, COUNTRY Financial has been protecting cars, homes, farms, businesses, and lives. Celebrating over 85 years in business, COUNTRY Financial and its financial representatives help clients protect what they have, save for a comfortable future, and achieve financial security.

There are no shortage of perks at Country Financial. But the employee favorite is the opportunity to join the company for once-in-a-lifetime trips, where Country Financial leaders show their appreciation for the hard work and dedication of their employees. Whether it’s Rome, Paris, the Bahamas, or a cruise, employees are rewarded—and energized to put their best effort forward.



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Kat is a Midwest-based freelance writer, covering topics related to careers, productivity, and the freelance life. In addition to The Muse, she's a contributor all over the web and dishes out research-backed advice for places like Atlassian, Trello, Toggl, Wrike, The Everygirl, FlexJobs, and more. She's also an Employment Advisor at a local college, and loves helping students prepare to thrive in careers (and lives!) they love. When she manages to escape from behind her computer screen, she's usually babying her two rescue mutts or continuing her search for the perfect taco. Say hi on Twitter @kat_boogaard or check out her website.
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