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Analytics Director - UK and Europe

Wise
London
8 months ago
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Were looking for anAnalytics Directorfor ourUK and Europe Squadwho is passionate about our mission of Money Without Borders to lead a highimpact analytics team which drives decision making and plays a key role in the strategic roadmap for these markets . This is a unique opportunity to work on our largest most mature Markets!

Youll report to the Analytics lead for Regional Expansion and partner daily with the Product Banking and Engineer leads for UK & Europe squad. Together you will form a crossfunctional group of key decision makers who own the challenge of driving the product roadmap in this Region. Youll also be part of the Analytics community within Wise giving you access to a global network of analytics professionals.

Youll lead a team of 5 to 6 passionate analysts and support them to partner across product teams  to drive data based decision making and ensure robust measurement of the impact of the work we do as well as identifying insights to inform our planning process all to ensure that we are enhancing our UK and European customers experience to best enable impact on our mission. 

If youve previously led or helped to build analytics teams in fastpaced scaling global companies wed love to hear from you. 

Problems youll solve in this role:

  • Support the UK & Europe squad to address the most important topics for the Region using data and insightsand building relevant KPIs to measure impact 

  • Develop coach and support a talented analytics teamthat has global reach 

  • Refine our vision and planfor the Regional Analytics Function as well as for the UK & Europe Squad

  • Structuring and helping the analytics team tackle some of the biggest and most strategically complex changes for the Region

This role will give you the opportunity to: 

  • Be part of a positive change in the world. Current banking systems dont let us send spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply.  So were building a new one. Our mission is to make money without borders the new normal

  • Have a significant impactby shaping the next phase of analytics in a fastpaced scaling global company

  • Learn from a global network of professionals.We have a large diverse team of analysts and data scientists that you will work with and learn from by being part of the Analytics community

  • Use all your experience and skillsto bring new thinking and ideas to how we build an outstanding analytics function


Qualifications :

A bit about you: 

  • Experienced Analytics leaderwho has successfully built analytics functions in fastpaced scaling global companies (ideally at the scale of 5 teams)

  • Makes the complex simpleby building and telling stories with data to effect positive change across organisations

  • Led developed supported and grown a team of analystsenabling them to effectively partner across the Squad to build trusted relationships and drive data based decisions 

  • Handson data manipulation and analysis experienceincluding scripting/coding (and coaching others) in SQL and Python (or R)

  • Coowned team wide projectshelping to bring teams together to plan around problems with KPIs that make a difference

  • Would be amazing if youve practically used applied AI / machine learning techniquesand built predictive models to get deeper insight


Additional Information :

  • Base salary: 125150k gross / year base (based on experience & interview outcomes)

  • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

  • Numerous amount of best in class benefits

  • Flexible working whether its working from home school plays or life admin we get that flexibility is essential and youre 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. Were people building money without borders  without judgement or prejudice too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse equitable and inclusive.

Were 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 its like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.


Remote Work :

No


Employment Type :

Fulltime


Key Skills
Adobe Analytics,Data Analytics,SQL,Attribution Modeling,Power BI,R,Regression Analysis,Data Visualization,Tableau,Data Mining,SAS,Analytics
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