Principal Analyst
AI Summary
Our Story Hello there. We’re Zopa. We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank.
About this role
The Opportunity
Analytics is changing rapidly. AI is transforming how analysts work. Organisations are changing how they think about metrics and self-service. Modern data platforms are creating entirely new ways to generate insight and make decisions.
At Zopa, we don't want to simply react to those changes—we want to shape them. We're looking for a Principal Analystto help build the next generation of analytics capabilities across the bank.
This is a rare opportunity to operate as a senior individual contributor with broad influence across an established analytics function. You'll help us identify and exploit the opportunities created by AI, raise technical standards, and drive strategically important cross-functional analytics initiatives.
You will remain close enough to delivery to stay credible, personally leading high-impact analytics initiatives. If you're excited by the idea of shaping the future of analytics we'd love to hear from you.
A day in the life
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Drive analytics-wide innovation, identifying practical opportunities created by AI, modern analytics tooling and evolving platform capabilities.
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Help define and execute our strategy for semantic layers, self-service analytics and metric governance.
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Raise technical standards across the analytics community, improving quality, consistency and scalability.
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Partner with Product, Data, Engineering and Analytics leaders to shape the future direction of analytics at Zopa.
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Coach and influence analysts and analytics leaders, helping build capability across the wider function.
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Lead experimentation with emerging technologies and help turn promising ideas into scalable capabilities.
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Own and evolve strategically important analytics products and reporting outputs, including senior leadership reporting and cross-functional metrics.
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Help define and govern critical business concepts and metrics used across the organisation.
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Influence platform, tooling and architectural decisions to maximise value for analytics users.
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Act as a trusted technical and strategic advisor across the analytics organisation.
About you
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You've built deep expertise in analytics, BI, analytics engineering, data strategy or a related field, and understand how these disciplines fit together to create value.
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Highly technical, with strong capability in coding, analytics tooling, data modelling and analytics architecture. You're able to move comfortably between strategic discussions and technical implementation details.
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Proven track record of influencing stakeholders at all levels and driving meaningful change without relying on formal authority.
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You have a strong understanding of semantic layers, metric governance, self-service analytics and modern BI concepts, with a clear point of view on what good looks like.
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An active explorer of emerging technologies and can identify practical opportunities to improve how teams work, access data and generate insight.
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You have a deep personal interest in AI and a well-developed perspective on how it will transform analytics over the coming years. Ideally, you've helped lead adoption of AI-enabled analytics capabilities or worked in an environment that is ahead of the curve.
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You thrive in ambiguity and periods of rapid change, and are able to create clarity, alignment and direction even when the future is uncertain.
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Equally comfortable shaping long-term strategy and getting hands-on to turn ideas into reality.
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Naturally curious, pragmatic and outcome-focused, and enjoy helping others grow and raising the capability of teams around you.
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Experience in financial services is helpful but not essential.
