Senior Analytics Manager

Nottingham (Hybrid – 2x Days a Week in Office)

A leading UK financial services organisation is looking for a Senior Analytics Manager to build and lead a brand-new Analytics Centre of Excellence. Having recently invested heavily in a modern Microsoft Fabric data platform and significantly expanded its Data Engineering capability, the business is now entering the next phase of its transformation: placing analytics, AI and commercial insight at the heart of business decision‑making. This is a rare opportunity to join a genuinely greenfield programme where you’ll have the autonomy to shape the analytics strategy, build a high‑performing team and influence senior leadership across the organisation.

The Company

You’ll be joining one of the UK's largest and longest‑established financial institutions, with more than 175 years of heritage helping customers achieve home ownership and financial wellbeing. Today, the organisation is investing heavily in modern technology, data and digital capabilities as part of a business‑wide transformation programme. Following the implementation of Microsoft Fabric as its enterprise data platform, the business is moving away from a legacy reporting environment towards a modern, AI‑enabled analytics function focused on delivering measurable commercial value. Significant investment has already been made across Data Engineering, governance and cloud technologies, creating the foundations for an analytics capability that will support strategic decision‑making across Lending, Risk, Finance and Customer functions. This is a highly visible role where you’ll partner with senior stakeholders to embed a data‑driven culture, develop advanced analytics capabilities and help shape how insight influences business performance.

The Role

Reporting into the Director of Delivery & Data, you’ll lead the central Analytics function whilst remaining hands‑on in delivering insight across the organisation. This role combines leadership, stakeholder engagement and technical delivery, making it ideal for someone who enjoys influencing business strategy whilst still being close to the data.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and developing a growing team of Data Analysts and Data Scientists
• Building the organisation’s Analytics Centre of Excellence
• Driving self‑service analytics and data‑driven decision making
• Partnering with Executive and C‑Suite stakeholders across the business
• Developing semantic models and analytical products within Microsoft Fabric
• Delivering advanced insight that influences commercial performance
• Supporting AI and advanced analytics initiatives
• Working closely with Data Engineering to maximise platform capability
• Championing best practice across analytics, governance and visualisation
• Building analytical products and decision‑support tools rather than static reports

This is a highly commercial role where success is measured by business outcomes rather than report production.

Your Skills & Experience

• Experience leading Analytics, Insight or Business Intelligence teams
• Strong Power BI and data visualisation experience
• Experience developing semantic models and self‑service analytics
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience influencing senior leadership and Executive stakeholders
• Commercial mindset with a focus on delivering measurable business value
• Experience working alongside Data Engineering teams
• Understanding of advanced analytics, predictive modelling and AI
• Comfortable balancing strategic leadership with hands‑on delivery
• Experience within Financial Services or another regulated industry advantageous

The Benefits

• Salary up to £90,000 + Bonus

How to Apply

To register your interest in this opportunity, please send your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the Apply link on this page.

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