Senior Data Analyst

About Zepz

Zepz powers two leading global remittance brands, WorldRemit and Sendwave, to build the next generation of cross-border payments. Serving over 9 million customers across 4,000 corridors, Zepz is transforming how money moves across borders by making it faster, safer and more convenient. Its innovative digital solutions are designed to break down financial barriers and expand access to better financial tools. Zepz operates across a broad global footprint, connecting the global north and south and enabling migrants to support loved ones, fuel local economies and build better futures.

Come join us!

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Our Commitments:

1. Velocity - We are fast
2. Outcomes - We work for our customers
3. Integrity - We do the right thing

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced senior data analyst to elevate our end-to-end visibility into and understanding of business performance, tying product and marketing metrics to financial outcomes in order to drive commercial strategy and align stakeholders. In this role, you will work closely with partners across the organization to extract insights from Zepz's rich and complex data. You will also work with leaders to translate business needs into data problems. You will design and build data models, metrics, and dashboards to inform day-to-day operations as well as long-term strategy. This role is for someone who thrives on solving complex problems, collaborating cross-functionally, and driving impact by delivering self-service analytics solutions and actionable business recommendations through analyses and data storytelling.

What you will own:

Reporting to the Head of Insights, you will:

• Partner closely with Product and Marketing stakeholders to define and refine metrics that provide visibility and explainability into Zepz’s financial performance and drive measurable improvements in key outcomes;
• Design, implement, and maintain data transformation models, dashboards, and analytical frameworks to generate actionable insights about Zepz’s business health;
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver strategic insights, benchmarks, and analyses that guide decisions for fiscal year planning, including customer segmentation, target setting, and market expansion strategies;
• Build and maintain executive reporting to be leveraged in ongoing business reviews to monitor top company KPIs and strategic objectives;
• Enable stakeholders and partners by building self-service tooling and providing training to empower teams to be data-literate and self-sufficient in autonomous reporting capabilities.

What you bring to the table 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, or a related field;
• 4+ years experience in data analysis, analytics engineering, and/or data science roles, building data modeling workflows (using dbt, for example, or other data platform tooling) and analyzing large datasets to solve problems;
• Expert SQL skills; proficiency in Python preferable;
• Strong statistical knowledge;
• Expertise in visualization and surfacing insights using a BI platform (e.g. Mode, Tableau, Looker, Power BI, etc.);
• Proven ability to manage and deliver on multiple projects with great attention to detail;
• Ability to clearly communicate results and drive impact;
• Comfortable collaborating across functions to identify data analytics problems and execute solutions with technical rigor and thoughtful analysis.

What you’ll get from us 

Please note that the benefits below will apply to permanent roles.  

We have five core benefits for our talent in the US, UK, Philippines, Poland, and South Africa. specifically:

• Unlimited Annual Leave: Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance! 
• Private Medical Cover: ​​You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being.              
• Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future. 
• Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected.
• Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible. 

We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive. In addition to the above, you will discover that we have a range of secondary perks (such as the cycle-to-work scheme and employee discounts) depending on your location, to help you thrive at Zepz!  

Why choose Zepz? 

• Our team of over 800 employees is fully distributed across the world. We are working from coffee shops, homes, and co-working spaces — making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world but we also offer workspace in our talent cluster locations - spaces we can meet, collaborate and connect.
• We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs.
• We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
• At Zepz, embodying our commitments binds us together. We are collectively passionate about striving to achieve our vision and purpose -  to continue to provide the best service to our users.

Ready to Apply?

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Zepz is a place where everyone can thrive. 

So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, and if at all you might need any form of support to make the process as comfortable as possible, please let us know and give us a shot by applying. We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.