Lead Analyst - Business Operations - Wise Business

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid annual holiday

Sabbatical after 4 years

Job summary

Wise is hiring a Lead Analyst for Business Operations to support Wise Business. You will derive actionable insights, build dashboards, and size friction impacts to improve customer-focused outcomes.

You will own cross-team analytics, define KPIs, and communicate findings clearly to stakeholders while shaping product and servicing priorities for scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in analytical roles with strong data analysis skills.
• Expert in SQL and BI platforms Looker and Tableau enabling self-service analytics.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and triage by impact.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; craft dashboards with diagnostic power.
• Strong stakeholder management and bias to action.

Responsibilities

• Derive actionable insights to drive team strategy and inform product decisions.
• Establish clear goals, define KPIs, and build narratives to show progress.
• Ensure fast, high-quality analysis to support quick decisions and iteration.
• Build automated data pipelines and dashboards to enable self-serve analytics.
• Identify opportunities and advocate for better alternatives across teams.

Skills

SQL

Looker

Tableau

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Job description

Lead Analyst - Business Operations - Wise Business

• Full-time
• Compensation: GBP 75,000 - GBP 115,000 - yearly

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

We're looking for a Lead Product Analysts to support our Business Operations team, working on Wise Business , our international business account.

The Wise Business account helps small and medium-sized businesses across the world focus on what matters most to them: growth.

An increasing share of our 625,000+ business customers – and the 45,000+ businesses that join them every month – trust Wise with their day-to-day finances.

The Business Operations team operates at the intersection of Product and Servicing, ensuring that our servicing scales in line with the evolution of the product whilst tackling key pain points our customers experience in dealing with our servicing teams.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

Derive actionable insights from data to drive the team's strategy and inform product decisions.

Establish clear goals, define measurable KPIs, and develop compelling narratives to help your team understand their progress.

Ensure accurate, impactful, fast decision making with high quality analysis, helping us to iterate faster.

Build automated data pipelines and dashboards to minimise repetitive tasks and allow data self-serve.

Identify & evaluate high impact opportunities, find ways to support & accelerate or identify and advocate for better alternatives

Take ownership of complex cross-team projects; in particular help product & operational teams across Wise Business better understand and size the impact of friction originating from their domains on customer retention so they can better prioritize fixing them.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

Technical Skills: 5+ years experience in analytical roles with strong data analysis skills. You're an expert in SQL and you know your way around BI platforms (Looker, Tableau) to enable self-service analytics

Ownership: You enjoy working independently in a fast-paced environment: Identifying impactful opportunities and making them happen, triage requests by impact and you know when and how to adapt analysis scope to achieve 80/20 results.

Communication: Excellent verbal and written communicator - you cut through the noise, communicating what matters in a way that people get it. You're an expert at crafting dashboards and visualisations that bring data to life, tell a story and have diagnostic power.

Influence: You have strong stakeholder management skills - you are collaborative, you know how to influence using data and when to say yes or no to maximise impact. You have a bias to action - you identify what needs to be done and make it happen.

NICE TO HAVE BUT NOT ESSENTIAL

Prior experience in the B2B space understanding business customers' financial and expense management needs.

Prior experience working with customer support, fincrime or servicing analytics.

• Paid annual holiday, sick days, parental leave and other leave opportunities
• 6 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years at Wise on top of annual leave

For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders - without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs .