Senior Data Analyst

About the role

Join the Internal Audit branch of the Compliance & Internal Audit Analytics team at Wise as a Senior Data Analyst. You will collaborate with the Internal Audit function to shape and execute its analytics strategy. This role focuses on enhancing audit testing through data-driven approaches and developing automated tools for continuous auditing and other Internal Audit activities.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Partner with Internal Audit stakeholders across various business areas, including Financial Crime, Operations, Risk, Finance, and Technology.
• Identify and implement high-impact analytics within audits, while also educating and enabling Internal Audit partners to adopt similar practices.
• Work with analytics, engineering, and business experts to find and understand diverse datasets, perform analyses using current methods, and gain a deep understanding of Wise's operations.
• Promote data-driven insights and innovation across all Internal Audit activities where analytics can add value.
• Contribute to automation and tooling projects to improve Internal Audit efficiency, such as workflow automation, continuous auditing, AI applications, and building management information dashboards.

Requirements

• 3 or more years of experience in data analytics.
• At least 1 year of data analytics experience in a Financial Crime related role.
• At least 1 year of data analytics experience within an audit, risk, or compliance related role.
• Advanced skills in managing stakeholders, including the ability to coordinate with analytics, engineering, and business specialists to achieve significant change.
• Extensive experience using SQL to build and maintain complex data sources and using visualization tools to present insights.

Nice to have

• Experience working in regulated environments, Fintech, or Financial Services.
• Experience using dbt, Superset, or Looker.
• Knowledge of advanced analytics techniques, including Python and various visualization methods.

Skills & tools

• SQL
• Data visualization tools
• Python (nice to have)
• dbt (nice to have)
• Superset (nice to have)
• Looker (nice to have)

Practical notes

This is an IC2 role. The base salary for this position ranges from £60,000 to £85,000, along with RSUs in the company. Benefits include the ability to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days a year, flexible working arrangements, private medical insurance, life insurance, discounted gym memberships, a cycle-to-work scheme, a paid 6-week sabbatical after four years, 26 weeks of full-pay maternity leave, an annual self-development budget, and pet-friendly offices.