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

Additional Information

Start date: as soon as possibleLimited contract (parental leave cover), full-time or 32h per weekLocation: On-site role in Berlin (office first set up)

Interview Process Overview

• Recruiter Interview - 45 minutes
• Hiring Manager Interview - 60 minutes
• Take home Challenge
• Technical Interview - 60 minutes
• Stakeholder Interview - 45 minutes
• Bar Raiser Interview - 60 minutes

Learn more about how we hire here

Why you should join SumUp

• The opportunity to work on large scale fintech products used by millions of small businesses around the world
• Work on a high impact squad that is at the core of the Risk & Compliance Tribe
• A dedicated annual Learning & Development budget for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education
• Enrollment onto our virtual stock ownership program - you will own a stake in SumUp’s future success
• A corporate pension scheme
• You'd enjoy other great benefits such as Urban Sports Club subsidy, Kita placement assistance, subsidised office lunches and other location-tailored benefits, Babbel language platform subscription and more
• You’ll attend global offsites and/or hackathons
• Join a truly global SumUp team of 3200+ people from 80+ countries, spread across 4 continents

About SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero.

Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we create powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a 'team-first’ attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure that the small business owners we partner with can be successful doing what they love.

SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, colour, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.

SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.

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