Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Data Analyst role focuses on commercial analytics within a high-growth software business, emphasizing the importance of data-driven decision-making for leadership across finance and operations. This position requires strong analytical skills combined with commercial acumen and experience in executive-level reporting. The analyst will work closely with senior stakeholders to provide insights that drive business performance, particularly in a SaaS environment. The role is hybrid, with an initial contract duration of three months and is classified as outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supporting board and leadership reporting
- Analysing financial and operational performance trends
- Building scalable reporting and insight workflows
- Working across finance, data and operational teams
- Improving consistency and quality of business reporting
- Identifying trends, risks and commercial opportunities within the data
- Translating analytical findings into actionable business insight
Key Skills:
- Strong SQL capability
- Experience using Power BI in a commercial environment
- Exposure to Snowflake or modern cloud data platforms
- Strong understanding of SaaS / subscription metrics (ARR, churn, retention etc.)
- Experience supporting finance, commercial or executive reporting
- Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and leadership teams
- Ability to communicate complex findings clearly and confidently
- Experience within scale-up, SaaS or PE-backed environments beneficial
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Senior Data Analyst (Commercial / Finance Reporting) Outside IR35 Contract | London Hybrid | SaaS / Growth Environment | 3 Month Initial Contract
I’m currently supporting a high-growth software business on a key commercial analytics contract that informs leadership decision-making across finance, operations, and business performance. This is a high-visibility role that sits closely with senior leadership and would suit someone who combines strong analytical capability with commercial thinking, stakeholder communication, and executive-level reporting experience. The role is less about producing dashboards in isolation and much more about helping leadership teams understand what is happening across the business, why it is happening, and where attention should be focused. The environment is fast-moving, commercially focused and highly data-driven, with a strong emphasis on recurring revenue performance, SaaS metrics and strategic growth reporting.
Key requirements:
- Strong SQL capability
- Experience using Power BI in a commercial environment
- Exposure to Snowflake or modern cloud data platforms
- Strong understanding of SaaS / subscription metrics (ARR, churn, retention etc.)
- Experience supporting finance, commercial or executive reporting
- Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and leadership teams
- Ability to communicate complex findings clearly and confidently
- Experience within scale-up, SaaS or PE-backed environments beneficial
The role will involve:
- Supporting board and leadership reporting
- Analysing financial and operational performance trends
- Building scalable reporting and insight workflows
- Working across finance, data and operational teams
- Improving consistency and quality of business reporting
- Identifying trends, risks and commercial opportunities within the data
- Translating analytical findings into actionable business insight
Contract details:
- Outside IR35
- 3-month initial contract
- Target start - End of May
- Hybrid working (typically 1 day per week London)
- Fast-moving interview process next week
If this sounds of interest, please apply for more information.