Senior Data Analyst - Regulatory Reporting (parental leave cover)

at  SumUp Services GmbH

At SumUp, small business owners are at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we create powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses.
In the Risk & Compliance team we ensure SumUp remains compliant with legal and regulatory requirements in all locations where we have a banking licence. Our tribe plays a crucial role in ensuring SumUp maintains a high level of integrity and compliance with applicable laws and regulations, while also protecting the company and its customers from risk and fraud.
You would join a cross functional team of 7 people based in our Berlin office who is responsible for building cutting edge Data products for Transaction Monitoring that aim to keep our merchant base free of Money Laundering and Financial Crime. Additionally one of the key responsibilities for this team is to ensure we automate different operational processes such as regulatory reporting.
Join our Risk & Compliance team as a Senior Data Analyst and contribute to advancing the automation of regulatory reporting, you’ll not only apply your expertise to the challenges of a complex and evolving domain but also actively contribute to the broader data analytics team.

What you’ll do

• Work in a cross functional team that automates and improves compliance operations with data and AI
• Develop and maintain ongoing regulatory reporting to ensure compliance with financial regulations, you will own the whole area of regulatory reporting from a data perspective, manage and prioritise the respective stakeholder requests independently
• Incident impact assessment- own and update the relevant dashboards in the product scope card acceptance
• Document and create data marts and key metrics so others can easily work with the data
• Analyse data sets to spot trends and patterns that can be translated into actionable insights and conduct ad hoc analyses to address pressing questions around compliance operations and business performance
• Collaborate with product and engineering management to define clear team KPIs and data models to ensure data driven workflow and prioritisation in the team

You’ll be great for this role if you

• Have progressive experience as a Senior Data Analyst, highly preferable within a financially regulated environment
• Experience in data warehouse principles (ideally Snowflake), architectures, and dbt
• Writing, optimising, and validating SQL queries is part of your day-to-day
• Are experienced in Python to run, adapt and extend existing reporting scripts
• Understand version control concepts and Git operations
• Have the ability to digest information, and data and deliver recommendations
• Are able to derive conclusions with analytical evidence using descriptive statistics, basic inferential statistics, and data visualisations - ideally with Tableau
• Have a proven track record of excellent stakeholder management skills, ability to challenge, refine and prioritise competing stakeholder requests
• Have a foundational understanding of basic software development concepts to effectively collaborate with and meet the needs of Engineering and Product teams

Nice to have skills and experience

• Compliance and regulatory reporting domain expertise
• Advanced experience in programming languages like Python or R for data analysis and manipulation. Familiarity with libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, and Scikit-Learn is a plus.
• Defining and running A/B tests and knowing when results are statistically significant
• Previous exposure to dynamics of start-up or scale-up organisations
• Proven track record of leading large and complex projects, demonstrating adaptability and concise communication skills

What you’ll do

• Work in a cross functional team that automates and improves compliance operations with data and AI
• Develop and maintain ongoing regulatory reporting to ensure compliance with financial regulations, you will own the whole area of regulatory reporting from a data perspective, manage and prioritise the respective stakeholder requests independently
• Incident impact assessment- own and update the relevant dashboards in the product scope card acceptance
• Document and create data marts and key metrics so others can easily work with the data
• Analyse data sets to spot trends and patterns that can be translated into actionable insights and conduct ad hoc analyses to address pressing questions around compliance operations and business performance
• Collaborate with product and engineering management to define clear team KPIs and data models to ensure data driven workflow and prioritisation in the tea

You’ll be great for this role if you

• Have progressive experience as a Senior Data Analyst, highly preferable within a financially regulated environment
• Experience in data warehouse principles (ideally Snowflake), architectures, and dbt
• Writing, optimising, and validating SQL queries is part of your day-to-day
• Are experienced in Python to run, adapt and extend existing reporting scripts
• Understand version control concepts and Git operations
• Have the ability to digest information, and data and deliver recommendations
• Are able to derive conclusions with analytical evidence using descriptive statistics, basic inferential statistics, and data visualisations - ideally with Tableau
• Have a proven track record of excellent stakeholder management skills, ability to challenge, refine and prioritise competing stakeholder requests
• Have a foundational understanding of basic software development concepts to effectively collaborate with and meet the needs of Engineering and Product team