Senior Data Analytics Manager

@ Wise

Senior Data Analytics Manager

Austin, US
Posted today

About the job

Wise is a global company making international money transfers easier and cheaper. This role focuses on leading compliance analytics, automation, and risk monitoring for the Americas, supporting global financial operations and regulatory reporting.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in data analytics
  • 2+ years leading analysts
  • Advanced SQL skills
  • Experience with visualization tools
  • Experience in automation tools

Qualifications

  • Strong stakeholder management
  • Meticulous attention to data quality
  • Ability to prioritize work
  • Independent problem-solving
  • Innovative mindset

Full job description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money.
Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.

Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.
For everyone, everywhere.

More about our mission and what we offer.


We are looking for a Senior Data Analytics Manager to lead analytics for the Americas Compliance Analytics branch of the Compliance & Internal Audit Analytics team at Wise.

You’ll partner with 2nd line Compliance in North America and Latin America to ensure they can execute against the Compliance regulatory reporting schedule, as well as leveraging data to proactively monitor risks. You’ll lead a team of 3-4 analysts, so your time will be split between hands-on work (40%) and leadership responsibilities (60%).

The Compliance Analytics team supports Compliance by using analytics to provide more coverage, efficiency and accuracy to testing and monitoring, as well as building innovative tools and using automation to support regulatory reporting and other Compliance activities.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

  • Partnering with stakeholders across the Compliance function covering all regions, products and domains of the business (including Financial Crime, Ops, Risk, Finance and IT)

  • Taking ownership of the engagement model between analytics and Compliance for delivering regulatory reporting and moving towards building automated pipelines for recurring reports

  • Identifying & implementing opportunities to do the most impactful analytics within testing projects and influencing and upskilling your partners in Compliance to do the same

  • Defining and tracking KPIs to measure the team’s success and impact 

  • Championing innovation and data-driven insights across all Compliance activities where analytics can add value

  • Leading automation and tooling projects to increase efficiency across Compliance


  • 5+ years of experience in data analytics

  • 2+ years of experience building, coaching and leading analysts

  • Advanced stakeholder management skills; you know how to leverage multiple different teams to deliver high-impact change

  • Extensive experience using SQL; you can build and maintain complex data sources and can leverage visualisation tools (Looker, Superset, etc) to surface insights

  • You have built reporting outputs, creating advanced SQL scripts based on requirements communicated by stakeholders

  • Experience using data engineering tools (GitHub, dbt, Airflow etc.) to transform messy data into clean and efficient pipelines and you know how to produce comprehensive data documentation

  • You understand the importance of data integrity, quality & governance. You know how to produce comprehensive data documentation

  • Meticulous & disciplined approach towards accuracy of data outputs

  • You are able to prioritise your own and your team’s work and independently manage competing priorities

  • You can contribute your own ideas to influence the team’s strategic roadmap

NICE TO HAVE BUT NOT ESSENTIAL

  • Experience in Compliance analytics testing or Internal Audit analytics

  • Experience using dbt 

  • Knowledge of Python

  • Financial services experience

  • Experience in regulatory reporting and monitoring controls or controls assurance

  • Experience using AI tools



For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders  — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.

We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.

If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.

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