Data Science Manager, Finance Analytics

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Here at Cleo, we have ~70 Data Scientists (Product Analysts) working embedded into our Pillars They stay connected and share knowledge consistently through monthly meetings and slack channels to scale approaches and ensure everyone learns in the same way. They thrive through clear communication with their squad and stakeholders to influence product or company decisions, being that bridge between the non-tech and technical sides of the team.

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We're hiring a Data Science Manager, Strategic Finance Analytics to lead one of the most cross-functional and high-leverage analytics functions 'll manage the Strategic Finance sub-team - 5 data scientists embedded across FP&A, Core Finance, Capital Markets, and Operations - reporting into the Director of Commercial Analytics
. This is a people management role as much as a technical one: roughly 70% people leadership, 30% hands-on, split across the highest-leverage analyses, exec presentations, and the analytical roadmap.

• Lead the Strategic Finance Analytics team, owning growth, performance, and hiring for the 5 data scientists across FP&A, Core Finance, Capital Markets, and Operations
• Set and prioritise the analytical roadmap across all four domains, directing the team's time to the work that moves the business most
• Act as the senior analytical partner to Heads of department, shaping decisions at exec level rather than just delivering numbers
• Stay hands-on on high-stakes or sensitive analysis, or decisions that need to move fast
• Own the quality bar - metric definitions, documentation, peer review, and trust in the numbers across internal and external reporting
• Raise the craft of the team through feedback, pairing, and playbooks so output scales beyond what 5 people can deliver directly
• Partner with Analytics and Data Engineering on the data foundations the team relies on
• Run team rituals and represent the team in cross-functional forums

• 7+ years in data analytics, data science, BI engineering, analytics engineering, or hybrid data/finance roles, including 2+ years line managing data scientists or analysts with experience handling performance management
• Track record partnering senior business stakeholders - ideally across Finance, Strategic Finance, Capital Markets, or Operations - and shaping decisions at exec level
• Familiarity with forecasting and predictive models, enough to interpret outputs, pressure-test assumptions, and direct ICs working in this space
• Strong commercial instincts: deep grasp of financial and operational metrics, quick to pick up the levers in a new domain
• Comfortable being the most senior voice in the room on data, and pushing back constructively when the analysis doesn't support the ask
• Expert SQL, hands-on with BI tools (e.g. Looker, Mode, Tableau) and dbt
• A builder's instinct - bias for automation, ownership, and shipping - plus the leadership instinct to scale that…