Head of Analytics & AI Transformation

Harnham; England; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus - up to 20%

Job summary

Harnham is seeking a Head of Analytics to lead a centralised Analytics & MI function within a fast-moving financial services business. You will shape data strategy, drive AI-enabled decisioning and partner with Finance, Marketing and the C-suite to deliver commercially impactful insights.

The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, guiding the team through transformation and the migration to a new decisioning platform while maintaining a strong focus on governance and data

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience across Analytics, MI or Data Analytics.
• Experience managing and developing analytics teams.
• Strong experience turning data into actionable commercial recommendations.
• Proven ability to influence C-suite and senior stakeholders.
• Strong hands-on technical capability, ideally including SQL and Python.
• Experience working with Snowflake, Power BI or similar.
• Experience improving data structures, reporting and analytics processes.
• Good understanding of data strategy and analytics transformation.
• Practical experience using AI/LLM tools within analytics.
• Understanding AI tooling landscape and its commercial applications.
• Experience embedding AI, automation or advanced analytics into business processes.
• Financial Services experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a centralised Analytics & MI function.
• Build a high-performing, insight-led analytics culture.
• Develop managers and analysts and support future team growth.
• Shift analytics from traditional reporting towards actionable commercial insight.
• Improve data storytelling and senior stakeholder engagement.
• Manage and prioritise a shared analytics workstack across Finance, Marketing and C-suite.
• Lead the adoption of AI tools within analytics, including LLM and coding tools.
• Establish governance, best practice and optimisation around AI usage.
• Oversee the development of scalable gold-layer datasets.
• Drive reporting automation using Snowflake and Power BI.
• Improve data structures, governance and reporting processes.
• Line manage the Decision Engine Manager and oversee migration to a new platform.
• Influence business-wide analytics, data and decisioning strategy.
• Act as a senior analytics voice across the organisation.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Analytics strategy

Team development

Data storytelling

AI tooling awareness

Data governance

Tools

Snowflake

Power BI

SQL

Python

Job description

Harnham is seeking a Head of Analytics to lead a centralised Analytics & MI function within a fast-moving financial services business. You will shape data strategy, drive AI-enabled decisioning and partner with Finance, Marketing and the C-suite to deliver commercially impactful insights.

The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, guiding the team through transformation and the migration to a new decisioning platform while maintaining a strong focus on governance and data