Head of Data

Job DescriptionHead of Data£110k + bonusCentral London (2-3 days a week)PermanentHL11718Finatal is currently partnered with a leading software business that was acquired this year by a mid-market Private Equity Fund and is now going on a rapid buy-and-build strategy. After the recent carve out they are looking for a new Head of Data to work at group level to consolidate a data strategy and optimise reporting to enable the business units to deliver maximum growth and profit. This will involve you being a pivotal point of contact, collaborating with executives such as CFO and CIO to ensure the value of data-led decision-making is communicated. You will have the opportunity to build out a data team in the long term to support the engineering and analytics capability of the group.Role:Reporting to the CFO you will build and implement the data strategy aligning to company objectives and fast-paced inorganic growth.Drive the optimisation of business unit reporting, ensuring a single source of truth and Power BI reports are seamlessly transferred to the Group and between business units.Using your strong data engineering skills, you will own all data tools including data warehouse Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran and Power BI.As the business scales you will have the opportunity to build out a data team hiring relevant data analysts to ensure no bottlenecks. Requirements:Track record in a lead or management data analytics, engineer, or head of data role where you have been involved in joining a business at an early stage of the data journey.Strong technical experience in engineering data analytics platforms across Snowflake, SQL Servers, Data lakes, DBT transformations, Fivetran and Power BI.Experience building or managing data teams including data analysts, engineers, and analytics engineers.Strong stakeholder management skills working across all levels including executives.