Senior Data Analyst - Fintech

Overview

Are you ready to turn data into real business impact at scale? We’re looking for a Senior Data Analyst to join our team as a strategic analytics leader and trusted advisor to senior stakeholders. In this role, you’ll go beyond dashboards and reporting—you’ll shape business direction, uncover high-value opportunities, and deliver scalable analytics solutions that influence decisions across multiple products and teams.

This is a unique opportunity to apply your business awareness to high-stakes initiatives, ensuring your work not only solves complex data problems but actively shapes our strategy.

You’ll lead end-to-end analytics initiatives from ideation to prototyping to full production, define success metrics, and translate complex insights into compelling data stories that drive action. You’ll also work in a cross-functional team alongside Machine Learning, Data Scientists, Data Engineering, and Data Management to support our product vision. Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder management will ensure that your work is impactful and drives measurable business results.

As a craft leader, you’ll collaborate closely with key partners, ensure high data quality standards, and help build a stronger analytics community through coaching, mentoring, and best-practice sharing.

About The Team:

FinTech Traveller Performance’s mission is to be the trusted source of insights that power data-driven traveller product decisions. We turn complex pay-in and performance data into clear, actionable insights for both product teams and leadership. We own the core dashboards and recurring reporting that track traveller payment KPIs such as authorization, acceptance, conversion, utilization, and the Leadership Dashboard. Beyond reporting, we lead deep-dive analyses to explain performance trends, uncover growth opportunities, and connect top-level outcomes to the underlying drivers.

By partnering closely with Product, Commercial, FP&A, Fraud, and Tech, we translate data into compelling stories and concrete recommendations that directly influence day-to-day decision-making—helping drive revenue growth, improve customer experience, and reduce risk.

Key Job Responsibilities And Duties

• Independently identify, develop, and deliver data analytics solutions from concept to production. Proactively address strategic business problems through data analysis, reporting, visualization, and compelling storytelling, while demonstrating expertise in various data tools.
• Independently build and maintain the data design for the partner payments area
• Autonomously manage expectations of senior stakeholders by translating business requirements into actionable data solutions. Facilitate communication and iteration between commercial, product, and engineering teams to advance projects and maximize business impact.
• Have a deep understanding of business problems within your domain to collaborate with stakeholders on problem definition, setting success metrics, and shaping future strategies through data insights and effective communication.
• Lead the modernization and enhancement of our reporting strategy, enabling stakeholders to easily access crucial metrics and insights for strategic decision-making.
• Ruthlessly prioritize projects based on business impact, efficiently adapt to dynamic business needs, and manage communications and expectations accordingly.
• Proactively focus on delivering scalable, reproducible, and long-term solutions in all aspects of your work, including reporting, visualization, and influencing business decisions through data.
• Collaborate effectively with various crafts such as Data Engineers, Data Managers, and Data Scientists, and validate your work through peer review.
• Deeply understand Booking's entire data ecosystem and contribute to the data community by enhancing the effectiveness of other data professionals and connecting your area to the broader business.
• You must be a subject-matter expert in Data Analytics: serve as a go-to Data Analytics authority for senior business stakeholders, coach and upskill peers in their craft and drive best practices ensuring data quality and stability.
  
  
  

• 8+ years of experience working in data analytics roles
• Strong technical skills i.e. Python/R/SQL
• Expert in data visualization skills
• Expert in translating business problems into data problems
• Expert in storytelling with data
• Very strong stakeholder management skills
• Strong in prioritisation, and management of their own work and timelines, and driving projects
• Strong team collaboration, experience with mentorship and upskilling junior team members
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong commercial skills
• Knowledge of Fintech Partner Payments and Regtech data and processes is beneficial
• Experience in the building of large scale data architecture is beneficial
• Experience in working with high level stakeholders with limited guidance is beneficial