As a growth company, reporting and analysing our revenue is critical to Xero’s success. In this Senior Data Analyst role, you will be integral to key insights and decision making by sourcing the right data, discovery and exploration, formulating business rules, testing and conducting data analytics.

You’ll be motivated by your desire to understand how our exciting and successful SaaS business operates and get a high level of satisfaction through contributing to business optimisation and decision making.

We’re looking for someone that can hit the ground running and work with key stakeholders at all levels, from developers to leaders. You will have proven technical and practical skills in the data & analytics domain and confidently lead analytical initiatives and help support & guide our existing data & finance analysts, helping expand a small but strong data capability in Finance.

The role will suit a highly experienced, end to end data analyst with a passion for contributing to and maximising value from data and who is interested in expanding their commercial acumen. You will be able to frame up the questions to answer, identify critical data points and apply analytics methods to enable reporting & insights which tell a clear, concise story to help our internal stakeholders understand and measure revenue success. You will work closely with diverse business domains and users, use advanced SQL to source data from our many large and diverse datasets, and present this data in an informative way using modern analytical tools.

What you'll do...

Be a trusted adviser inside and outside of Finance, helping stakeholders to identify key business questions and finding ways to answer those questions with data.
Work collaboratively with Xero’s data teams to help ensure the accuracy and completeness of Xero’s revenue data metrics, supporting and promoting ‘one source of the truth’.
Support periodic business performance reporting on Xero’s key SaaS metrics, customer insights, revenue and overall business performance.
Work closely with the Data Team to understand the flow of data from source to periodic performance reporting & analysis, and work to make this data accessible and meaningful. Where gaps in data exist, you will proactively identify approaches for filling these gaps.
Provide leadership in approaches to creating metrics and data models, and produce metrics and models which enable effective, flexible and insightful reporting & analysis to improve core understanding of revenue and enhance decision-making.
Draw on both specialist and generalist knowledge to derive insights from data. Research and apply techniques from the wider analytics discipline as required, including a range of statistical techniques.

Experience you'll bring with you...

A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in a similar role.
Proven level of expertise in modern data analytics approaches, techniques and tools.
6+ years or more experience in data analytics.
Strong SQL and analytical skills and proven experience working with large & complex databases, including query building and data extraction.
Comfortable displaying insights through Reporting / BI software

If you would like to join a global growing SaaS business in this amazing role please outline in your cover letter what you bring beyond your technical skills to make your work environment #human.

Applications close Tuesday 30th July

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