Head of BI

At Zellis Group we are driving significant transformational activities within Finance and across the group. As Head of BI, your role will be to lead our data strategy and analytics function and align it with Group business units.

This role is critical for building and scaling our BI capabilities, driving actionable insights across the business, and ensuring our data infrastructure supports rapid growth., Leadership & Strategy: Define and execute the BI vision and roadmap aligned with growth objectives. Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing BI team. Partner with executives and stakeholders to translate business needs into data driven solutions.

Data Sourcing: Set the standards for identifying, onboarding and readying data from source systems, including offline/off-system data, working hands-on with source systems yourself and directing the team’s approach to doing this at scale

Data Warehouse Build: Own the design principles and standards for the data warehouse - schema, joins and pipeline architecture, contributing hands-on to the build while directing the wider team’s work against them

Data Transformation: Work with business analysts to translate business logic into SQL in the transform layer within an ETL tool, and set the standards that keep this work accurate and consistent across the wider team

Data Warehouse Reliability: Ensure the team runs a robust refresh cadence and change process, so pipelines and logic stay current with underlying business changes

Continuous Improvement: Drive an ongoing programme, delivered by the team, to optimise transform performance and strengthen the robustness of results

Group Reporting Delivery: Own the suite of dashboards used for group-level reporting, ensuring accuracy, performance, and usability. Define the practice for report development, publication, and adoption

Governance: Establish data governance, quality and security standards and metadata management. Own selection and governance of BI/data platforms and tooling and manage related vendor relationships and budget. Define and own the Group’s BI KPI/metrics framework. Drive automation and efficiency in reporting processes

AI-Ready Data: Structure and govern the data platform so it supports natural language, deterministic reporting via AI tools such as MCP and Claude - ensuring the underlying data model is precise and well-governed enough that AI-generated answers are accurate and trustworthy, not approximate

Documentation & Best Practice: Creating detailed documentation, including flowcharts to visualise data transform processes and data schemas

The ideal candidate combines strong leadership skills with a solid technical grounding fluent enough in SQL, ETL and data warehousing to contribute, direct, review and challenge the team’s work - and is a highly organised, confident individual with excellent communication skills who is passionate about data and about building high-performing teams., * A degree in Business Administration, Management, Finance, business analytics, data science, or a related field

• Proven experience in designing and implementing a BI framework
• Advanced SQL Developer (essential)
• Strong firsthand experience using ETL and Data Warehouse systems, preferably Snowflake and dbt
• Proven experience leading BI or Data teams in a SaaS or PE backed environment
• Ability to manage vendor relationships and budgets
• Exceptional communication skills; written, verbal and active listening - ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise, manage time effectively and problem-solve under pressure
• Have an eye for detail and able to identify errors and anomalies within data across multiple sources
• A professional and collaborative approach to the management of customer data, placing customers’ needs at the heart of every decision.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to balance strategic leadership with tactical execution

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We’re passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.