Data Analytics Manager

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for the analytics function, aligned with business objectives and the overall data and technology strategy.
• Champion best practices in data analysis, visualization, and storytelling within the team.
• Ensure the accuracy, integrity, and consistency of all reported data, implementing robust data validation and quality control processes.
• Proactively identify areas for deep‑deep‑analysis that can drive revenue growth, cost efficiency, or improved customer experience with an emphasis on delivering analysis.
• Build, lead, and mentor a high‑performing team of data analysts, encouraging continuous learning, professional development and fostering a culture of collaboration.
• Oversee delivery of the team's roadmap and objectives, project prioritization, and resource allocation to ensure timely and high‑quality delivery of reporting and analytical insights.
• Oversee the management, maintenance, and optimisation of our primary Business Intelligence tool, Tableau, ensuring its stability, performance, and user adoption.
• Experience in fostering "analytics excellence," including developing analytical methodologies, promoting data literacy, and ensuring high data quality and integrity.
• Ideally you have a background in Fin Tech or similar industries.
• A strong background in driving value with analysis—you understand how to move beyond just reporting numbers to identifying strategic opportunities and solving business problems through recommendations that are being derived through your analysis (next best action, segmentation, customer / product behaviour analysis).
• You have very good SQL and analytical methodology skills and you enjoy delivering deep dives as well. This role is still very hands‑on and for someone who wants to lead a small team and have impact through practising analytics excellence.
• You act as a coach and mentor to the people inside and outside of your team, continuously training your leadership muscle to be the best leader you can be.
• You communicate clearly with proven ability to adapt your communication style to different situations and stakeholders.
• You love solving problems through data and to create new opportunities for internal and external customers.
• You have experience with setting up best practices for BI Tools such as Tableau, Power BI or similar tools.

At Funding Circle, we believe the world needs small businesses. That's why we've made it our mission to help them get the finance they need to grow. We are looking for, We're Funding Circle. We back small businesses to succeed. Data is core to our mission at Funding Circle to build a better financial world. We are looking for, We're Funding Circle.

We back small businesses to succeed. At Funding Circle, we believe the world needs small businesses. So we pride ourselves on providing meaningful, human support as well as fast, hassle‑free processes to deliver an unbeatable customer experience. Data at Funding Circle We firmly believe that data is our key asset and that everyone across the organisation has a part to play in making sure that we look after it, allowing us to better support our customers.

Our central data team lives in our Tech org and reports to the VP of Data. In order to strengthen our data maturity and become truly data driven we are committed to:

- Building a strong data culture where data is treated as an asset - Empowering our circlers to become highly data fluent and confident self‑serve users - Enhancing our world‑class data platform - Creating data products across all domains - Transforming our business with ML & AI, We have a huge impact on the businesses that borrow through our platform, the communities they serve and the overall economy (last year £7.2bn of GDP generated).

You can read our full Impact Report here:  - To see what our customers think, visit our Trustpilot page:  - And we're still evolving! Our award‑winning multi‑product platform is solving more SME finance challenges than ever before. We think big, rally together and meet the needs of SME customers like no other.

- Why join us? At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that…