Senior Analytics Manager
At a glance
Senior Data Analysis & BI role at Wise. London · full-time · £105,000–£150,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Guide a team of three to four analysts, balancing hands-on analysis with coaching and leadership
- Coordinate with Compliance partners across Europe, the UK and MEA on regulatory reporting and risk monitoring
- Set the working arrangement for analytics and Compliance, then move recurring reports toward automated pipelines
- Choose high-impact analysis for testing projects and help Compliance partners apply analytics themselves
- Set team KPIs and lead automation and tooling work that improves Compliance operations
What you bring
- At least five years in data analytics, including two or more years coaching and leading analysts
- Strong SQL skills for complex data sources and stakeholder-led reporting, plus experience presenting findings through visualization tools
- Experience with data engineering tools such as GitHub or Airflow, and the ability to build clean pipelines and document data
- You can manage competing priorities across your own work and your team’s, while protecting data quality and governance
Who this fits
This senior role suits someone who can lead analysts while staying hands-on, with the work split between analysis and team leadership. It is based onsite in London and supports Compliance across Europe, the UK and MEA.
From the employer
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.
More about our mission and what we offer.
We are looking for a Senior Analytics Manager to lead the EMEA Compliance Analytics branch of the Compliance & Internal Audit Analytics team at Wise.
You’ll partner with 2nd line Compliance in Europe, the UK and MEA to ensure they can execute against the Compliance regulatory reporting schedule, as well as leveraging data to proactively monitor risks. You’ll lead a team of 3-4 analysts, so your time will be split between hands-on work (40%) and leadership responsibilities (60%).
The Compliance Analytics team supports Compliance by using analytics to provide more coverage, efficiency and accuracy to testing and monitoring, as well as building innovative tools and using automation to support regulatory reporting and other Compliance activities.
This is an AL2 role. For more information on our Analytics Career Map and levelling structure, click here.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
Partnering with stakeholders across the Compliance function covering all regions, products and domains of the business (including Financial Crime, Ops, Risk, Finance and IT)
Taking ownership of the engagement model between analytics and Compliance for delivering regulatory reporting and moving towards building automated pipelines for recurring reports
Identifying & implementing opportunities to do the most impactful analytics within testing projects and influencing and upskilling your partners in Compliance to do the same
Defining and tracking KPIs to measure the team’s success and impact
Championing innovation and data-driven insights across all Compliance activities where analytics can add value
Leading automation and tooling projects to increase efficiency across Compliance
Skills & Experience:
5+ years of experience in data analytics
2+ years of experience building, coaching and leading analysts
Advanced stakeholder management skills; you know how to leverage multiple different teams to deliver high-impact change
Extensive experience using SQL; you can build and maintain complex data sources and can leverage visualisation tools (Looker, Superset, etc) to surface insights
You have built reporting outputs, creating advanced SQL scripts based on requirements communicated by stakeholders
Experience using data engineering tools (GitHub, dbt, Airflow etc.) to transform messy data into clean and efficient pipelines and you know how to produce comprehensive data documentation
You understand the importance of data integrity, quality & governance. You know how to produce comprehensive data documentation
You are able to prioritise your own and your team’s work and independently manage competing priorities
You can contribute your own ideas to influence the team’s strategic roadmap
Nice to have:
Experience in Compliance analytics testing or Internal Audit analytics
Experience using dbt
Knowledge of Python
Experience in regulatory reporting and monitoring controls or controls assurance
Experience using AI tools
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.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
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.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
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