Senior Analytics Manager; Individual Contributor

Position: Senior Analytics Manager (Individual Contributor)
London Analytics – BI /Employee - Permanent /Hybrid Our Story Hello there. We’re Zopa.

We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward.

Find out more about our fantastic offerings at ! We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces. If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count.

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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't want to simply react to those changes—we want to shape them. We're looking 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 operate as a senior individual contributor with broad influence across an established analytics function. You'll help us identify and exploit the opportunities created by AI, raise technical standards, and drive strategically important cross-functional analytics initiatives. You will remain close enough to delivery to stay credible, personally leading high-impact analytics initiatives.

If you're excited by the idea of shaping the future of analytics we'd love 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 ch 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 metric flow or LookML), metric governance, self-service analytics and modern…