Senior Analytics Manager / Analytics Manager (Individual Contributor)

The Opportunity

Analytics is changing rapidly. AI is transforming how analysts work. Organisations are changing how they think about metrics and self-service. Modern data platforms are creating entirely new ways to generate insight and make decisions.

At Zopa, we don'twant to simply react to those changes-we want to shape them. We'relooking for a Senior Analytics Manager / Analytics Manager (IC) to help build the next generation of analytics capabilities across the bank.

This is an individual-contributor role with no direct people-management responsibility.

This is a rare opportunity to operateas a senior individual contributor with broad influence across an established analytics function. You'llhelp us identifyand exploit the opportunities created by AI, raise technical standards,and drive strategically important cross-functional analytics initiatives.

Youwill remain close enough to delivery to stay credible, personally leading high-impact analytics initiatives. If you'reexcited by the idea of shaping the future of analytics we'dlove to hear from you.

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.

• You have a strong understanding of semantic layers (e.g DBT metricflow or LookML), metric governance, self-service analytics and modern BI concepts, with a clear point of view on what good looks like.DBT experience is a strong advantage.

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

• 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.