Senior Analytics Engineer

About Allica Bank

Allica is the UK’s fastest growing company - and the fastest-growing financial technology (Fintech) firm ever. Our purpose is to help established SMEs, one of the last major underserved opportunities in Fintech.

Established SMEs are the backbone of local communities - representing over a third of our economy - yet have been largely neglected both by traditional high street banks and modern fintech providers.

Allica is building out its growth function, based around talented, empowered and autonomous individuals who will be responsible for customer acquisition using a combination of channels to meet objectives set across the business. You will get an opportunity to work with different teams across the business including product squads, distribution, engineers and operations to deliver on Allica’s mission of becoming the UK’s most recommended business bank.

We are rare amongst banks in that our senior leadership team have backgrounds at world-leading fintech's, which shows in their active engagement in both the strategic and execution elements of our rapidly scaling organisation. Because we are working on one of the last untapped fintech opportunities, in a new team it will mean that we're often working on entirely new challenges and unpicking complexity as we move along. No two days are ever the same.

Role Description

Data is a key asset to Allica and is deeply embedded in all our teams and products. With data, we assist and work with Finance, Operations, Credit Risk, Product and management. We are looking for ambitious and curious people who can help us understand our data better, contribute to facilitating the discussions between engineering and the data stakeholders and have an impact on the business by telling stories around the insights they generate. competent and detail oriented analytics engineer who will lead reporting reconciliations and insights building. The ideal candidate is organized, collaborative, delivery focussed, data-driven and can execute end to end initiatives by themselves.

Principal Accountabilities

• Leading on Growth Analytics, you will enable the growth team to make better decisions faster
• You'll work as part of a cross-functional team alongside growth managers, product owners, engineers, and distribution. In this role, you will apply your expertise to drive what and how we build within the growth squad, leveraging data and cutting-edge technology to transform our customer journey
• This transformation will directly impact our customers' experience as well as the organization's goals.
• Your responsibilities will include designing, building, and maintaining KPIs for the growth squad, building out the data engineering scope and working with data engineers to enable the growth squad to take data driven decisions.
• Additionally, you will be responsible for generating insights and actions based on prospect and customer data, informing customer acquisition and activation strategies.
• Support the growth squad to deliver on our customer acquisition goals at target CAC
• Define key product metrics and track KPIs to analyse what really matters
• Understand prospect and customer behaviour and identify levers to help move key metrics
• Help conduct regular A/B tests across the customer journey
• Together with engineers productionise data collection, transformation and storage
• Build information feedback loops and inform decision making of stakeholders in the business
• Build out a growth product playbook and a campaign analysis framework

Personal Attributes & Experience

• A bachelor's degree in a STEM major (mathematics, computer science, engineering)
• Excellent knowledge of data science (python, SQL) and production tools
• Good working knowledge of AI tools to automate and create new solutions.
• A deep understanding of probability and statistics fundamentals
• Evidence of a bias towards execution, and a proven track record of delivering to results
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an affinity for breaking complex and broad problems down in a logical and structured manner
• Strong data analysis skills and comfortable working with large volumes of data to spot patterns and trends, and to prioritise accordingly.
• Previous experience owning customer acquisition ideally in a high-growth environment.
• Can communicate clearly and succinctly.
• Works quickly, without compromising on quality, and has high attention to detail.
• Driven, ambitious and have a strong sense of will-to-win - looking to grow fast and learn quickly within a rapidly scaling organisation.
• Have a track record of being a top performer in several areas, through your career.

Working at Allica Bank

At Allica Bank we want to ensure our employees have the right tools and environment in which to succeed in their role and in support of our customers.

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do, so our benefits are designed with you in mind:

• Full onboarding support and continued development opportunities

• Options for flexible working

• Regular social activities

• Pension contributions

• Discretionary bonus scheme

• Private health cover

• Life assurance

• Family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave

Don’t tick every box?

Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills or requirements listed on the job description. If you think you’ll be a good fit, we’d still love to hear from you!

Flexible working

We know the ‘9-to-5’ isn’t right for everyone. That’s why Allica Bank is fully committed to flexible and hybrid working. Please let us know what is best for you and, if we can, we will do our best to accommodate.

Diversity

We’re a diverse bunch here at Allica, with all kinds of experiences, backgrounds and lifestyles. Our openness and differences make us stronger, and we want everybody to feel comfortable bringing as much of themselves to work with them as they like.