Senior Manager – Data & Analytics

Reo Recruitment; North Sydney Council; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Reo Recruitment is seeking a Senior Manager, Data & Analytics for a market-leading lending organisation in Australia. You will lead a skilled team delivering enterprise reporting, dashboards, and data models to support growth, profitability, and customer outcomes.

Partner with executive leaders to identify growth opportunities, drive data-led decision making, and champion analytics maturity across sales, product, risk and operations in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Qualifications

• Proven success leading Data & Analytics, Business Intelligence and Commercial Analytics teams.
• Exceptional stakeholder management with the ability to influence at executive level.
• Experience with large datasets and data visualization platforms.
• Experience in financial services, lending, banking, or mortgage environments.
• Ability to translate complex data into strategic recommendations and actionable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high-performing Data & Analytics team.
• Own enterprise reporting, dashboards, data models, and self-service BI capabilities.
• Deliver strategic insights across sales, distribution, broker performance, product management, credit risk, customer outcomes and profitability.
• Partner with executive leaders to identify growth opportunities and drive business performance.
• Champion data-led decision making across the organisation.
• Act as the subject matter expert for analytics and reporting across key initiatives and transformation programs.
• Drive continuous improvement in data quality, governance, reporting capability and analytical maturity.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Business Intelligence

Data visualization

Large datasets

Commercial analytics

Job description

Lead Data-Driven Growth in a High-Performing Financial Services Business

Are you a commercially minded Data & Analytics leader looking to make a genuine impact in a market-leading lending organisation?

This is a rare opportunity to lead an established and highly capable Data & Analytics function within one of Australia's most respected mortgage and lending businesses. Working closely with executive stakeholders, you will transform complex data into strategic insights that drive growth, customer outcomes, profitability, and operational excellence.

This role offers the opportunity to influence business strategy, lead high-profile analytics initiatives, and build a data-driven culture across a fast-paced and innovative environment.

The Opportunity

As Senior Manager, Data & Analytics, you will lead a team of experienced analysts and BI professionals responsible for delivering critical management information, performance reporting, and actionable business insights.

You will play a key leadership role across the organisation by:

• Leading and mentoring a high-performing Data & Analytics team.
• Owning enterprise reporting, dashboards, data models, and self-service BI capabilities.
• Delivering strategic insights across sales, distribution, broker performance, product management, credit risk, customer outcomes, and profitability.
• Partnering with executive leaders to identify growth opportunities and drive business performance.
• Championing data-led decision making across the organisation.
• Acting as the subject matter expert for analytics and reporting across key business initiatives, projects, and transformation programs.
• Driving continuous improvement in data quality, governance, reporting capability, and analytical maturity.

About You

You are an influential leader who combines strong commercial acumen with deep analytical expertise.

You will bring:

• Proven success leading Data & Analytics, Business Intelligence and Commercial Analytics teams.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at executive level.
• Strong experience working with large datasets, data visualisation platforms, and analytics tools.
• A track record of delivering insights that drive commercial outcomes and measurable business performance improvements.
• Experience within financial services, lending, banking, or mortgage environments.
• The ability to translate complex data into compelling stories, strategic recommendations, and actionable business outcomes.

Why would you join?

• Lead a highly visible function with significant influence across the business.
• Work alongside a collaborative and high-performing leadership team.
• Drive meaningful change through advanced analytics and data-driven decision making.
• Competitive salary package, bonus structure, and excellent career growth opportunities.
• Join an organisation committed to innovation, customer outcomes, and continued growth.

If you're passionate about using data to shape strategy, improve performance, and lead a talented team, we would love to hear from you.