Head of BI & Data, Xelix
More information about location
2 days a week in office (Hoxton, London)
AI-powered control centre for accounts payable teams
Posted today
AI-powered control centre for accounts payable teams
101-200 employees
Posted today
More information about location
2 days a week in office (Hoxton, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build best-in-class solutions for Accounts Payable - using the latest technology to drive real outcomes for our customers.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building or leading a data team in a B2B SaaS or fintech company, ideally as the first data leader
- Hands-on depth in the modern data stack: Snowflake or similar, dbt, managed ingestion (Fivetran, Airbyte) and a BI tool such as Metabase, Omni, Looker or Power BI
- Strong SQL and data modelling; you're happy to build hands-on in year one
- A track record of getting business teams to agree on metric definitions and actually use them
- Practical experience with AI in data work, such as AI-assisted pipeline development, natural-language analytics on a semantic layer, or AI evaluation data
- Clear communication with senior stakeholders, from leadership and board reporting to engineers
What the job involves
- We are now hiring for a Head of BI & Data to build and lead our new BI / Data team, initially reporting to our CTO. This role is an exciting opportunity to own Xelix's single source of truth from day one: the data lake, data warehouse and metrics that every team, AI feature and data product will rely on
- Build and lead the BI / Data team: hire a Data Engineer and an Analytics Engineer, and shape how the team works with Finance, RevOps, Commercial, Product, Engineering and Services
- Own the data platform end to end: data lake, Snowflake data warehouse, ingestion and governed company KPIs such as ARR, customer retention, realised customer value, touchless rate and cost to serve
- Deliver, with RevOps and Account Management, a joined customer dataset within your first three months (product usage, realised value, contracts and cost alongside CRM data) so they can answer which customers get value, renew or expand, and what they cost to serve
- Set data governance with InfoSec: access controls, retention and deletion, and clear ownership for every data source
- Make our data AI-ready: evaluation datasets for AI Engineering, trusted context for agents, and clean data for data products
- Partner with the platform team on data contracts, change data capture and moving analytics off production databases
Application process
- Introductory Call – A short Teams conversation with a Talent Partner to discuss your background and the opportunity
- Hiring Manager Interview – A 30–45 minute Teams meeting to explore your experience and fit for the team
- Technical Task or Presentation – A role-relevant exercise to demonstrate your skills and approach
- Final On-site Interview – An in-person meeting with our senior leadership team and co-founders at our office
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Xelix helps enterprise finance teams detect high-risk transactions and prevent financial losses driven by error or fraud. The solution also provides a deep analytics capability in the areas of cash management & supply chain performance.
Currently, up to 1% of company spend is lost due to Accounts Payable errors. This can be caused by simple manual errors (e.g. keying mistakes), technology mishaps (e.g. OCR failures) or intentional fraud from inside or outside the company. When trying to maximize the profitability of a company a 1% difference in net spending can make an immense difference, therefore the software that Xelix is developing has huge potential.
As evidence of its power, Xelix claims that it typically saves companies 6-figures within the first 3 months of going live and drives a positive ROI within one month. Additionally, its analytics capability provides in-depth analysis & insights on supply chain activity - including payment performance, procurement trends & working capital management. Ultimately, Xelix has the first-mover advantage in its market and if keeps progressing at its current pace it could easily grow rapidly.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2025
$160m
SERIES B
Jul 2022
$5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $165m
Company benefits
- Learning & development culture – £500 personal annual budget
- We’re carbon-neutral and are working towards ambitious carbon reduction goals
- Lots of team socials & activities
- Annual team retreat
- On-site Gym
- 27 days of annual leave (including 3 days Christmas closing), with the option to roll over 3 days
- Hybrid working from our dog-friendly Hoxton office
- Comprehensive private medical & dental cover with Vitality
- Enhanced parental leave
Company values
- Be productive
- Be proactive
- Keep improving
- Be collaborative
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Paul Roiter
(Co-Founder & CEO)Paul has a degree in Political Science and Government and an MBA. They previously co-founded Dingo App, a peer-to-peer ticketing app.
Phil Watts
(Co-Founder & CPO)Phil has a degree in Maths and Economics, and they're a qualified Chartered Accountant. They previously co-founded Dingo App, a peer-to-peer ticketing app.
People progressing
Maddy joined Xelix as an SDR in 2022, before joining the Partnerships team in October 2023.
Miki joined Xelix in 2019 as a Software Engineer, before being promoted to Lead Data Engineer. They are now a Staff Software Engineer.
Having joined Xelix in April 2023 as an SDR, Hannah is now a Customer Success Manager.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Xelix
- Building a diverse and inclusive team is at the heart of everything we do both in the people team, and the wider Xelix team. We are aware that diversity & inclusion efforts are ongoing, and that we will never have it all figured out and ‘done’. This means we need to constantly learn and iterate. We will also make mistakes, but the important thing is that we learn from them and act with positive intent.
- Equal opportunity employer
- Advanced parental pay
- Actively track and working to improve gender balance (currently 29% female)
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