Lead Data Analyst - Finance & Treasury

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

Job summary

A global financial services company in London seeks a Lead Data Analyst to contribute to strategic finance. The ideal candidate will have strong SQL and analytical skills, with experience in statistical modeling. Responsibilities include data analysis to guide strategic decisions for company growth. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits, including hybrid working options and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Company Restricted Stock Units

Paid annual holiday and sick days

6 weeks paid sabbatical after 4 years

Qualifications

• 4-7 years experience in similar roles.
• Mathematical background and analytical skills.
• Ability to self-organise and manage stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to improve company decision-making.
• Curate datasets and surface metrics.
• Analyze costs and develop strategic plans.

Skills

Strong SQL skills

Python/R

Strong analytical ability

Data visualisation

Statistical modelling

Tools

DBT

Job description

Overview

Your Mission: At Wise, we’ve got a clear mission — money without borders. Built by and for people who live global lives. As a FinTech company moving billions of GBP of customer money in over 70 countries, Wise needs bulletproof financials & insights into the growth of the company. We need timely, accurate and scalable financial data to make accurate business decisions inside the company.

Due to continued and rapid growth we’re on the hunt for a Lead Data Analyst to join our Growth and Strategic Finance Team in Shoreditch, London. You’ll be part of the team that helps pilot the rocket ship.

Responsibilities

• Your principal responsibility will be to make an impact and lead us to better decisions for the company and our customers
• Curating datasets, surfacing metrics, some statistical modelling, and deeper dive analysis that we expect to influence the direction of the team and the company
• Depending on the project you’re working on, you’ll doing the following:
  • Helping us understand what’s driving our growth at a company level
  • Helping us analyse how we’re generating costs and helping our teams come up with strategic plans to drive them down (this is very central to our Mission)
  • Helping us develop better pricing strategies so that we can incentivise the right behaviour internally, and also encourage our growth

Qualifications

• 4-7 years experience in similar roles
• Mathematical background
• Strong SQL skills
• Python/R
• Strong analytical ability
• Decent understanding of stats and statistical modelling
• Data visualisation and storytelling ability
• Ability to self organise and manage stakeholders
• Demonstration of impact/going above and beyond basic role requirements

Desirable

• DBT
• Data modelling in a warehouse context
• Understanding of testing and experimental design
• Legally authorised to work in the UK

What we offer

• Salary: £75,000 - £100,000
• Company Restricted Stock Units
• Numerous great benefits in our London office

Key benefits

• Hybrid working
• 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

Other information

Some important stuff we would like you to know

To meet our regulatory obligations as a licensed financial services company, Wise needs to conduct background checks on all new hires, which in the Finance team includes Criminal and Credit checks. Please discuss with the Recruiter if you have any concerns regarding this process.

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