Director of Data and Analytics

About the role

We are looking for an experienced and strategic Director of Data & Analytics who will be responsible for all aspects of data management, analysis, and strategic insights at iLending. The Director of Data Analytics will play a critical role in driving the company's growth by leveraging data assets and analytics capabilities to unlock business opportunities, enhance operational efficiency, and support decision-making across all functional areas.

Responsibilities

• Perform thorough analyses to uncover actionable insights or strategic opportunities related to business growth, operational efficiency, and cost/ resource optimization.
• Provide hands-on consultancy, collaboration, and support to all department heads and project teams in designing, staffing, and delivering analytics data and financial reporting and the continued refinement of the budget/forecast process.
• Manage and optimize the data infrastructure and technology stack, including data storage, ETL processes, data modeling, and data visualization tools.
• Utilizing Power BI, Excel, and SQL to continue development of a full suite of operational reports from multiple systems.
• Establish and maintain robust data governance processes, ensuring data quality, integrity, and security across all systems and platforms.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing, sales, finance, operations, and technology, to identify business needs and develop data-driven solutions.
• Establish strong relationships across all business lines.
• Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in data management, analytics, and financial technology, and recommend innovative approaches to enhance data-driven decision-making.
• Foster a data-driven culture within the organization, promoting data literacy, encouraging data-driven thinking, and driving data-driven decision-making at all levels.
• Enable data-informed decision-making across the entire company through the development and deployment of dashboards / standardized KPIs / operational metrics/training/ awareness.
• Provide a high level of responsiveness in developing new reporting to address needs or questions from the executive team.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7-10 years of deep data analytics experience.
• Expert level experience in Data warehousing.
• Expert level SQL knowledge.
• Hands-on experience building reporting solutions in Power BI.
• Azure, Microsoft Fabric experience is required.
• Demonstrated experience in developing ML Models, Predictive Analytics, and utilizing LLMs, SLMs.
• Demonstrated experience in generating historical, current and future trends of sales, marketing and customer data.
• Experience in consumer lending (auto loans, mortgage, personal loans etc.).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with running analytics for the sales organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from a 4-year accredited college or university; Finance, or other analytical/technical majors strongly preferred.
• Experience fostering solid relationships across multiple departments.
• Ability to collaborate with senior executives.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to translate complex data insights into actionable recommendations for senior leadership.

Skills

• Expert level experience in Data warehousing.
• Expert level SQL knowledge.
• Hands-on experience building reporting solutions in Power BI.
• Azure, Microsoft Fabric experience is required.
• Demonstrated experience in developing ML Models, Predictive Analytics, and utilizing LLMs, SLMs.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with running analytics for the sales organization.

Benefits

Full-time positions are benefits-eligible the first month after 30 days of employment, which includes:

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• PTO
• 401(k) match
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Employer Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employer Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Wellness Program
• Financial Wellness Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

Pay

Base Annual salary of $130,000 - $150,000

Schedule

The position is on-site in the Englewood Office. To be considered for this position, you must be local to the Denver Area, or moving to the Denver Area. Relocation assistance is not provided.

iLending is unable to provide VISA or OPT sponsorship, now or in the future