Senior Analytics Manager (Individual Contributor)

• Join Zopa, the UK digital bank that built the world’s first peer-to-peer lending company, in a permanent hybrid role in London. • Help build the next generation of analytics capabilities across the bank as a senior individual contributor. • Operate with broad influence across an established analytics function, with no direct people-management responsibility. • Identify and use the opportunities AI and modern data platforms create for analytics. • Raise technical standards and lead strategically important cross-functional analytics initiatives. • Stay close to delivery by personally leading high-impact analytics work.

• Bring deep expertise in analytics, BI, analytics engineering, data strategy or a related field. • Show strong technical capability in coding, analytics tooling, data modelling and analytics architecture. • Move comfortably between strategic discussions and technical implementation details. • Understand semantic layers such as dbt MetricFlow or LookML, along with metric governance, self-service analytics and modern BI concepts. • Hold a clear point of view on what good analytics looks like. • Demonstrate a proven track record of influencing stakeholders at all levels without relying on formal authority. • Explore emerging technologies actively and spot practical ways to improve how teams work and generate insight. • Bring a deep personal interest in AI and a well-developed view of how it will transform analytics. • Create clarity, alignment and direction during ambiguity and rapid change. • Balance long-term strategy with hands-on work to turn ideas into reality. • Commute to the London office 2–3 days a week.

• Bring hands-on dbt experience, which is a strong advantage. • Show experience leading the adoption of AI-enabled analytics capabilities. • Bring experience from an environment that is ahead of the curve on AI and analytics. • Have a background in financial services, which is helpful but not essential.

• Drive analytics-wide innovation by identifying practical opportunities from AI, modern tooling and evolving platform capabilities. • Help define and execute the strategy for semantic layers, self-service analytics and metric governance. • Raise technical standards across the analytics community to improve quality, consistency and scalability. • Partner with Product, Data, Engineering and Analytics leaders to shape the future direction of analytics. • Coach and influence analysts and analytics leaders to build capability across the function. • Lead experimentation with emerging technologies and turn promising ideas into scalable capabilities. • Own and evolve key analytics products, including senior leadership reporting and cross-functional metrics. • 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.

• Work in a hybrid setup with 2–3 days a week in the London office. • Work from abroad for up to 120 days a year, subject to having the right to work in that country. • Enjoy a culture that values good work-life balance and flexible ways of working. • Get everything you need to thrive at work and at home from day one. • Join one of the UK’s top three Most Loved Workplaces. • Shape the future of analytics at a bank that uses AI as part of everyday work. • Request reasonable adjustments during the hiring process.

Zopa launched in 2005 as the world’s first peer-to-peer lending company and went on to launch Zopa Bank in 2020. The bank sets out to do the opposite of what customers dislike about traditional finance, putting people at the centre of its products. Zopa has won multiple industry awards, employs people from nearly 50 nationalities, and has been named among the UK’s top three Most Loved Workplaces.