Data Analytics Manager, Financial Health

At Monzo we believe there’s a better way to do banking - we care deeply about our customers, are innovative and execute quickly. Our mission is to revolutionise the way people manage their finances by putting them in control and promoting their financial wellbeing. Our Borrowing business is growing rapidly (both on our existing products, and with the planned launch of new products). We aim to create a genuine feel-good factor when it comes to personal credit, and are looking for driven, analytical and creative individuals to help us achieve this goal.

We are scaling up our Data and Credit team to support the rapid growth and evolution of our portfolio. We are looking for a Data Analytics Manager to lead a team of Data Analysts within our Financial Health squad who are focused on supporting customers in financial difficulty. As a Data Analyst Manager, you’ll be working in collaboration with Product, Data Science and Analytical Engineering peers on data-driven insights and initiatives. We’re looking for a data driven strategic leader with hands-on experience who can bring fresh thinking and new ways to inspire the team and our customers.

What you’ll be working on:

• You will manage a team of Data Analysts and work closely with the Product Managers, Engineers, and Data Scientists in an agile product environment.
• You’ll champion the use of data and bring ideas to life through a rigorous analytical approach.
• Your work will focus on improving the support we offer to customers in financial difficulty, ensure our operational processes are well controlled and we meet regulatory requirements.
• Be a key leader in building a discipline of exceptional Data Analysts working on making Monzo world class at supporting customers in financial difficulties.
• Help hire, develop and retain talented Data people.
• Collaborate closely with senior leaders across Monzo to deliver products for our customers.
• Bring data leadership and rigour to our approach to product development and build a strategic understanding of the business while structuring complex projects to bring them to life.
• Define the long term strategy of the team and create comprehensive roadmaps for all the projects within your team.
• Work and advise on Financial Health’s global expansion strategy.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports and metrics that assess business and customer outcomes within Financial Health.
• Ensure accurate reporting to third parties and regulators.
• Build and maintain controls to ensure our business processes are running as intended.
• Work on projects to improve the accuracy and efficiency of our data.
• Generate insights that can change the direction of our Financial Health strategy.

Our technology stack:

Our Data team’s mission is to Enable Monzo to Make Better Decisions, Faster. At the core of this mission sits our data platform. We’re great believers in powerful, real-time analytics and empowerment of the wider business. Our engineers collect analytics events from their microservices, and upload these into our Data stack for analysis. We optimise for simplicity and re-usability – all our data lives in one place and is made available via our data warehouse in Google BigQuery. We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies (note we do not expect applicants to have prior experience of all them): Google Cloud Platform for all of our analytics infrastructure, dbt and BigQuery SQL for our data modelling and warehousing, Python for data science, Go to write our application code, AWS for most of our backend infrastructure.

You should apply if:

• What we’re doing here at Monzo excites you!
• You have experience of managing a team of Data Analysts (required).
• You are a strong strategic data leader and are passionate about using data to improve and inform business decisions.
• Strong experience with working with executive or C-level peers, managing stakeholders across levels of seniorities and disciplines.
• You know what it takes to manage top tier Data talent.
• You’re excited by the opportunity to work autonomously to impact the future of a fast growing, ever evolving business.
• You’re familiar with using a variety of Data Analysis tools. You know when to pick the right tool, and can help others do the same.
• Experience in Financial Health is a plus, but not required.

The Interview Process:

Our interview process involves 3 main stages. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions! 30 minute recruiter call, 45 minute initial call, 3 x 1-hour video calls, including a technical case study. Our average process takes around 3-4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process.

What’s in it for you:

• We can help you relocate to the UK.
• We can sponsor visas.
• This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).
• We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.
• Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences.
• And much more, see our full list of benefits.