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.

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Job Description

We’re looking for anAnalytics Directorfor ourUK and Europe Squadwho is passionate about our mission of Money Without Borders, to lead a high-impact 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!

You’ll 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 cross-functional group of key decision makers who own the challenge of driving the product roadmap in this Region. You’ll also be part of the Analytics community within Wise, giving you access to a global network of analytics professionals.

You’ll 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 customer’s experience to best enable impact on our mission. 

If you’ve previously led or helped to build analytics teams in fast-paced, scaling, global companies - we’d love to hear from you. 

Problems you’ll solve in this role:

Support the UK & Europe squad to address the most important topics for the Region using data and insights, and 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 don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. So we’re 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 fast-paced, 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 fast-paced, 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 

Hands-on data manipulation and analysis experienceincluding scripting/coding (and coaching others) in SQL and Python (or R)

Co-owned team wide projects,helping to bring teams together to plan around problems with KPIs that make a difference

Would be amazing if you've practically used + applied AI / machine learning techniquesand built predictive models to get deeper insight

Additional Information

Base salary: £125-150k 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.

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