Senior Data Scientist (12 Month FTC)

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Role

This is a 12 month fixed term contract role.

The strategy analytics team works closely with strategy, strategic finance and executive stakeholders to support on strategic projects and company level reporting.

This includes leading on company level metrics, translating ambiguous strategic questions into practical analysis and communicating these results to a senior set of stakeholders. This is to ensure that the management team has a strong basis of understanding of company performance based on data. It is also to ensure we are able to make accurate and timely forecasts of company performance and be able to explain deviations in a structured way. Finally, it is to ensure that senior stakeholders are supported with their strategic questions with well articulated analysis. These are all in the support of making the best strategic decisions to enable the company to deliver on user experience and business goals.

This role requires a high level of independence and working directly with senior stakeholders to solve challenging strategic problems. Expertise in choosing the right method from a broad set of analytical methods under the constraints of time and data availability is crucial.

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Analysis: work closely with the S&O, Strategic Finance and Exec teams to lead analytics on ambiguous strategic questions with a high level of independence, including supporting special projects. This will sometimes require expansion of responsibilities into new domains and supporting new growth opportunities and/or cross functional teams.
  • Lead company level reporting: lead on executing the monthly and quarterly company level reporting. This will require a combination of building core Looker and Slide outputs as well as efficient short deep dives into key trends, risks and opportunities.
  • Finance team support: be a go-to contact in the Insights team for the finance team.
  • Collaborate with product teams: this role will likely require adaptability to work directly with product teams to help with discrete analysis.

Requirements

  • Exemplary problem solving skills, with particular strength in creating meaningful analysis from ambiguous questions.
  • Strong competency in verbal and written communication of results to a wide variety of stakeholder levels.
  • A high degree of independence and ability to manage upwards to senior stakeholders.
  • Ability to build relationships across a wide range of stakeholder teams and leverage their knowledge to answer higher level strategic questions.
  • Thrives when working across multiple projects.
  • Aptitude and resourcefulness to work in new domains.
  • Expertise in SQL and the ability to work with large datasets.
  • Expertise in visualisation tools like Looker or Tableau.
  • Experience in Python and command over ETL scripts.
  • Deep commercial awareness and a proactive attitude to make a difference and drive impact.
  • Demonstrates ownership over more complex projects and expertise in prioritising their own work.

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