Senior Analyst

JR United Kingdom; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology and lending company seeks a T-shaped analyst to support the finance team. This role requires SQL and PowerBI expertise, alongside financial background, to enhance data analytics for business insights. You'll work alongside various stakeholders and engage in innovative projects to drive operational excellence. Join a dynamic team in a supportive environment that values diversity and personal development.

Benefits

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Private medical insurance with Bupa

Employee Assistance Programme

Techscheme with Apple and Currys PC World

Latest technologies and leading SaaS providers

Eye care vouchers with Specsavers

50% discounted gym membership

2 days charity leave per year

Passionate about personal development

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced environment with real impact.
• T-shaped analyst with experience in analytics models and dashboard building.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, SQL, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the finance team, delivering actionable reporting.
• Support analytics community and promote product analytics.
• Drive business action through innovative data-focused initiatives.

Skills

SQL

Financial Analysis

Data Modelling

Stakeholder Management

Business Analysis

Dashboards & Reporting

Advanced Analytics Methods

CI/CD Pipelines

Data Warehouse Design

Data Lake Concepts

Tools

PowerBI

DBT

Snowflake

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Location: Cardiff or London / Hybrid (1-2days a month in the office)

About the Company

Sonovate is lending and technology company with a clear vision: to be The Funding Platform for the Future of Work. Our embedded payment solution empowers the new world of work. By offering flexible payments, it lets recruiters, consultants, and labour marketplaces place contractors and freelancers to unlock their cashflow to capitalise on the opportunities that flexible working provides. This means our customers can draw funds as and when they need them to pay their workers while waiting for end clients to pay them on their own terms.

Role Summary

You would be working closely with a wide array of people in our team and business – this will be from data engineers, governance and risk analysts through to our CFO to deliver actionable reporting. This would primarily service the finance team working with tools including DBT, Snowflake, PowerBI and no doubt a little Excel too. You will also act as an analytics champion - working with the wider analyst community to enable and upskill them to deliver insights to the business themselves. You will work with the head of data to disrupt and challenge existing processes across the operational side of the business, promote product analytics and deliver complex analysis that the wider analyst community is not able to serve itself (such as predictive modelling and forecasting).

As we are a small team there is an ask to support across the data and product landscape which includes: dabbling with AI, securing external data feeds and investigating innovative data focused product initiatives such as complex financial products for our customers.

Skills:

We need the person filling this role to have some financial experience – but this does not need to be all you’ve done – primarily its about transferrable skills, if you don’t think you meet all the criteria, please do still reach out.

• Experience who is keen on working in a fast-paced environment where you will be able to see a real impact from your work.
• A T-shaped analyst with experience across areas such as development of analytical data/semantic models, building dashboards & reports and advanced analytics methods.
• Experience of working within FP&A functions or with finance teams generally is important but not the only thing we are looking for. A varied background is ideal.
• Familiarity with data modelling, data warehouse design and data lake concepts and practices. The more passionate you are about driving business action the better.
• An experienced SQL user - We need you to know how to build efficient joins, aggregations, and know your views from your tables. You’ll use Snowflake here but all SQL backgrounds are welcome.
• If you are already familiar with DBT that’s great too, but not essential – the more exposure you’ve had to it the better.
• Familiarity with PowerBI or equivalent tools is essential.
• Stakeholder management, business analysis and/or management consulting experience is ideal.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control and batch & streaming data pipelines is ideal.

What will you get in return?

• 28 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private medical insurance with Bupa
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Techscheme with Apple and Currys PC World
• Working with latest technologies and leading SaaS providers
• Eye care vouchers with Specsavers
• 50% discounted gym membership
• 2 days charity leave per year
• You’ll work for a company that is passionate about personal development and a strong community focused culture

Sound interesting?

If your answer is ‘yes’ then click apply to find out more!

If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the interview process, please let our Talent Acquisition Partner (Alex Morrell) know and we'd be happy to help!

We know that diverse teams are strong teams. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture and are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing all our employees

Please note: All successful applicants who are offered a role at Sonovate will be required to pass background screening checks before starting with us. These checks will include National ID Checks, Right to Work, Employment References, Adverse Financial History, Criminal Record, Global Sanctions, Bankruptcy checks. Our Talent Acquisition team will be able to run you through these in detail at the early stage of your application.