Lead Data Analyst

Wise; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking a Lead Data Analyst to drive analytics in operations, collaborating closely with product managers and engineers. This role requires 4+ years of experience, advanced SQL skills, and familiarity with data visualization tools. The company offers a competitive salary of £75,000 - £100,000, flexible working options, and a commitment to diversity. Join a mission to create Money Without Borders and influence significant operational decisions.

Benefits

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Flexible working options

Paid sabbatical after 4 years

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in analytics.
• Experience with operational team analytics.
• Self-starter comfortable in empowered teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive analytics efforts in operations teams.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers.
• Provide critical information for Operations assessments.

Skills

Advanced SQL skills

Python/R

Data visualization tools (Looker, PowerBI, Tableau)

Capacity planning

Efficiency analysis

Tools

dbt

Job description

• Compensation: GBP 75,000 - GBP 100,000 - yearly

Company Description

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 an Lead Data Analyst who is passionate about our mission of Money Without Borders to partner with our operational teams to help drive data-driven decisions that would support our fast-growing product through scaling and optimising the team.

As an Lead Data Analyst, you'll be driving our analytics efforts in our operations teams, who do everything from support our customers when they need help, to screening for criminal activity, to verifying customer identities at scale.

Most importantly, you’ll collaborate closely with your operational leads, product managers, designers and engineers to bring your insights into real change for our customers and help drive our mission!

This is an IC3 role. For more information on our Analytics Career Map and levelling structure, clickhere .

About the Squad:

The squad’s mission - To deliver a seamless experience that minimises effort and scales globally. We believe this will help Wise get to mission zero.

Your mission:

Maximise the impact of your team by helping them make the best decisions for our customers, using analytics.

You’ll own the challenge of:

Supporting the Operations leadership by providing critical information to assess the health of Operations

Size, track performance and identify optimisation opportunities for key strategic initiatives.

Lead on implementing Operations KPI tree and operation teams target setting framework in pipelines and reporting.

Working on providing in-depth analysis on operation metrics while measuring the corresponding impact on our customers.

This role will give you the opportunity to:

Be part of a positive change in the world. We’re fixing a broken, greedy system, and putting people and businesses in control of their money

Create value from extensive datasets. We have millions of customers, a global set of payment infrastructure and a complex product that customers can use in different ways. There is a tonne of value left to unlock from this data!

Influence the team’s direction. Analysts at Wise enable data-driven decision making and have a large impact by helping their teams to decide what to work on.

Learn from a global network of professionals. We have a large, diverse team of analysts, data scientists and product managers that you will work with and learn from.

Qualifications

Qualifications

You have 4+ years of experience in analytics.

You have a background working with operational team analytics including

capacity planning, forecasting, efficiency analysis and experimentation.

You have advanced SQL skills.

You have experience with building data pipelines, using dbt.

You have experience working with Python/R.

You have experience with data visualisation tools (Looker, PowerBI, Tableau

etc.) and demonstrate storytelling ability with data.

You’re a self-starter who is comfortable working in highly empowered teams.

Additional Information

Our Offer

Base salary: £75-100k gross / year base (based on experience & interview outcomes)

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Numerous amount of best in class benefits

Flexible working - whether it’s working from home, school plays or life admin we get that flexibility is essential and you’re trusted to do the right thing and be responsible

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 visitWise.Jobs .