This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced, industry-leading organisation, growing an analytics team to help support business growth. The role of senior analytics lead is to work collaboratively with our internal and external stakeholders, developing creative analytical solutions bringing data and insight to the heart of every decision here at Modulr. As a Senior Analytics Lead you will also be involved in recruiting, mentoring & managing a team of junior analysts/data scientists – developing the next generation of talented analysts.
We look for curious individuals that have real a passion for data and analytics, that have a desire to learn, who want to help the business use data and insight better when they make decisions.
The role
Analytics is huge field, and this role will cover many aspects - from helping develop data models for data ingestion, to ML projects delivering insights at scale working closely with our engineers, product and operations teams. You will be a technical guru, comfortable in manipulating data at scale and identifying the appropriate analytical data science methods to deploy depending on the business challenge you are faced with. A good background in analytics and data science is essential
You will be responsible for all elements of analytics project delivery - from liaising with stakeholders through to solution design. You will work with the Director of Product Data to develop best practice on approaches, and encourage the skills development of the team through knowledge sharing
We are flexible with location, however, travel to Edinburgh/London will be required for f2f meetings with your team.
About Modulr
- Modulr ranked 18 on LinkedIn’s 2019 Top Startups List in UK
- Named an official Best Workplace by Great Places to Work in 2020
- Ranked as the second fastest growing tech company in the UK by Dun & Bradstreet
- Awarded £10 million from the BCR Fund to further develop our innovative product.
- Recently received £9m in funding from PayPal Ventures
- Five years old, Modulr has offices in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Amsterdam.
- We have processed over 80m transactions to date with a value in excess of £50 billion of business payments.
- We are multi-award winning and want to keep creating a world class product.
- Most recently won ‘Best Initiative from an SME’ category at the Card and Payments Awards.
Modulr is a fintech scale-up that is breaking new ground within the payments sector. We are in a digital age when businesses need to move money 24/7 instead of operating within regular banking hours. Companies are under mounting pressure to manage their cashflow, control their costs, comply with regulations and handle complex supplier, customer and employment payment arrangements. Modulr develops cutting-edge API-first solutions that enable businesses to overcome these challenges and take control of their money.
The key tasks of your role will include:
- Work with a variety of internal, and external stakeholders to develop actionable analytical solutions to meet business challenges
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders to brief, plan and execute analytical plans
- Hands on delivery of analytical solutions – strong commercial focus on outputs that improve efficiencies & increase revenues
- Keep abreast of cutting-edge developments in data science and analysis that can be applied to Modulr and work with senior data team to turn into reality where appropriate
- Help to promote use of analytics across the organisation – from running hackathons, workshops, show and tells – encourage the adoption of insight through data across different teams – to enable Modulr to be truly data driven
- Manage your team of analysts and data scientists – from 1-2-1 to OKR (Objective) setting
- Help to develop the internal data team – from recruitment drives, onboarding programs for data team, development of training plans/delivering specific training
- Help to promote Modulr in wider data science community – establishing Modulr as the destination for analysts and data scientists as part of their career journeys in FinTech
About You: To join us as a Senior Analytics Lead, you’ll need:
- Be passionate about how data and analytics can make a change and be willing to drive that message in a growing company
- You have an inquisitive mind and proactive approach to problem solving and issue resolution
- You enjoy group work and working independently in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment, and are willing to take ownership and responsibility of key business processes.
- You love rolling up your sleeves and doing whatever’s required to achieve the goals of the team and wider business.
- You’re structured and organised, able to handle the competing pressures of immediate tasks and alongside longer-term projects.
- You’re comfortable working in an early-stage business, where time is critical, and things change frequently.
- Both an eye for the fine detail and ability to look at the wider business context and spot opportunities for change
- Excellent communication skills – empathetic listener to be able to translate business challenges into data challenges, and skilled at explaining complex solutions back out to the business in digestible format to help promote/popularise analytics and break down perceived barriers
- You have managed a small team previously or have been involved with mentorship programs
Specific Skills
- Have at least 5+years of experience in analytical roles
- Highly proficient in at least 1 coding language – R or Python (SAS also considered) – and be comfortable using SQL
- Have worked with cloud based data platforms
- Experience with visualisation tools (e.g. tableau, Power BI, DOMO)
- Have direct experience building data science models – e.g. segmentations, propensity models, forecasting
- Experience with ML ops an advantage
- Mathematics/Statistics/Data Science background (MSc Preferable – other highly numerate degrees also applicable)
In addition to a market leading salary, we offer the following benefits:
Modulr offers highly competitive salary and benefits packages; our employees enjoy the benefits of flexible working. The office is modern, with lots of natural light and has break out areas. Importantly, our work is challenging and interesting, you will gain valuable experience in a rapidly scaling business at an important phase of growth while contributing to our collaborative culture.
- Bonus
- Pension
- Flexible benefits
- 34 days holiday
- Training allowance
- Opportunities for career development
- Flexible working
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