Director of Data, Monzo

• You have multiple years of experience in data, leading analytics teams and building data infrastructure
• You consider yourself an empathetic leader and have experience managing multiple data individual contributors and data managers and you really enjoy that part of the job
• You are comfortable getting hands-on as well as taking a step back and thinking strategically and proactively identifying opportunities
• You have experience working together and collaborating with senior business stakeholders and finance teams
• Working knowledge of Python, Airflow, dbt, Bigquery and Looker

Desirable

• We have a strong culture of data-driven decision making across the whole company
• And we're great believers in powerful, real-time analytics and empowerment of the wider business. All our data lives in one place and is super easy to use
• We work in cross-functional squads where every data practitioner is a member of a central data discipline and fully embedded into a product squad alongside Engineers, Designers, Marketers, Product Managers, Finance Analysts etc
• You’ll work closely in the intersection between finance and data at Monzo, a role that will be critical to reach our ambitious goals within this area, which will be vital to future proof Monzo and support our mission to make money work for everyone
• You’ll be collaborating closely with the finance leadership team to build out a modern, data driven finance function
• You will contribute towards both defining and executing our finance strategy which currently includes significant systems and automation investment
• This includes scoping and delivering the data work required to support our finance systems (accounting, financial forecasting, treasury and regulatory reporting) as well as continuing to transform our key processes and controls
• You’ll also be acting as an interface to Monzo’s engineering discipline across these transformation projects
• You will lead a data team responsible for building and maintaining reporting datasets required to embed control readiness and operational efficiency to allow Monzo to scale
• This work will also be crucial to place finance on the right path in our journey to a potential IPO
• You’ll be leading a talented team building and analysing data models for commercial insight into our business performance
• This includes building relationships within our Financial Planning & Analysis function and across the business to ensure we have the right analytics capabilities for successful business partnering
• Establish yourself as a trusted partner to the finance leadership team with a reputation for getting things done
• Work closely with finance leadership to define data’s priorities and support our finance strategy
• Ensure we have the right data capabilities, infrastructure and talent in place to be able to to make data driven commercial decisions and enable robust and reliable financial/regulatory reporting
• Bring data leadership and rigour to our finance function, enabling us to efficiently manage the bank’s performance and risk
• Help hire, develop and retain top tier data analysts and analytics engineers
• Promote a culture of proactive, high quality data insights that can impact the direction of Monzo

• 30 minute recruiter call
• 45 minute call with hiring manager
• 4 x 1-hour video calls with various team members
• 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