Head of Data Analytics

This is a Group/global role with responsibilities split across being a Head of Data Analytics and leading on Financial Analysis. The role is responsible for building and managing in-house analytics with the aim of using analytics to develop insights and drive commercial decision-making. This involves high-level responsibilities in developing a Data Analytics strategy to support business strategy, leading on analytics projects across the F&B operations and member behaviour analysis along with analysing the financial performance of the business (e.g., P&L analysis, financial model building). The role is cross-functional and has interactions with all departments in the business. Given the mix of analytics and financial analysis, the holder must have had extensive experience of both fields across APAC and EMEA.

Responsibilities

- Build and grow in-house analytics capabilities developing data and analytics strategy
- Develop techniques and processes to transform raw data into meaningful insights and information using programming tools and visualisation software
- Leadon data mining, modelling and conducting analysis to provide commercial insights to drive business performance (including developing predictive analytics capabilities)
- Build and manage production of reports and dashboards (financial, product sales, member behaviour), including visualising and interpreting findings
- Leadon data governance and ensuring data integrity across systems/reports
- Business partner with other departments and stakeholders on various analytics tasks
- Support strategic projects, including financial model development
- Work with in-house Technology team to ensure alignment on new technologies and AI implementation

Qualifications needed

- Qualified Accountant (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant subject (e.g. data science, statistics and/or customer behaviour)

Job requirements

- Proven leadership experience: building and leading Analytics teams developing analytics strategy and roadmap to support business strategy
- 10+years of experience in analytics, commercial insights and financial analysis
- Essential: past experience working with private members clubs and F&B
- Regional experience across APAC and EMEA
- Experience working with different types of analytics and data: financial, F&B sales, customer behaviour including generating of monthly reports into these
- Strong commercial acumen: ability to translate data into commercial insights and communicate these to stakeholders in a cross-functional capacity
- Analytics experience throughout data lifecycle: extraction of raw data, transformation, mining and modelling of this, through to visualising and reporting.
- Technical skills: proficient in using SQL, Python/R, Power Query, Excel and visualisation tools (e.g., Power BI)
- Experience working with both financial systems (e.g., Xero, Jonas, 365), ERP and POSsystems

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.