Senior Analytics Manager (Individual Contributor)

A day in the life

Drive analytics-wide innovation, identifying practical opportunities created by AI, modern analytics tooling and evolving platform capabilities.

Help define and execute our strategy for semantic layers, self-service analytics and metric governance.

Raise technical standards across the analytics community, improving quality, consistency and scalability.

Partner with Product, Data, Engineering and Analytics leaders to shape the future direction of analytics at Zopa.

Coach and influence analysts and analytics leaders, helping build capability across the wider function.

Lead experimentation with emerging technologies and help turn promising ideas into scalable capabilities.

Own and evolve strategically important analytics products and reporting outputs, including senior leadership reporting and cross-functional metrics.

Help define and govern critical business concepts and metrics used across the organisation.

Influence platform, tooling and architectural decisions to maximise value for analytics users.

Act as a trusted technical and strategic advisor across the analytics organisation.

About you

You've built deep expertise in analytics, BI, analytics engineering, data strategy or a related field, and understand how these disciplines fit together to create value.

Highly technical, with strong capability in coding, analytics tooling, data modelling and analytics architecture. You're able to move comfortably between strategic discussions and technical implementation details.

Proven track record of influencing stakeholders at all levels and driving meaningful change without relying on formal authority.

You have a strong understanding of semantic layers, metric governance, self-service analytics and modern BI concepts, with a clear point of view on what good looks like.

An active explorer of emerging technologies and can identify practical opportunities to improve how teams work, access data and generate insight.

You have a deep personal interest in AI and a well-developed perspective on how it will transform analytics over the coming years. Ideally, you've helped lead adoption of AI-enabled analytics capabilities or worked in an environment that is ahead of the curve.

You thrive in ambiguity and periods of rapid change, and are able to create clarity, alignment and direction even when the future is uncertain.

Equally comfortable shaping long-term strategy and getting hands-on to turn ideas into reality.

Naturally curious, pragmatic and outcome-focused, and enjoy helping others grow and raising the capability of teams around you.

Experience in financial services is helpful but not essential.