Senior Insight Analyst

We’re a big business that feels small, with strong values and great culture. We don’t do hierarchy – our execs interact with the team directly and encourage team members to take ownership of opportunities and drive change.  You’ll find plenty of passion and a growth-focused mentality in the office mixed with a lot of fun and camaraderie. 

In a nutshell, we’re an online gaming business that has a massive data asset covering 20M+ players playing both games we develop and those provided by 3rd parties.  Our casino games and technology solutions enable the world’s largest gambling companies to optimise player experiences all over the world.  

With a database capturing >30BN online Casino transactions, our business is lucky to have a broad, yet granular view of how players interact with different games, across the world.  This uniquely powerful data asset has huge potential to create significant value internally and externally and is seen by the board as a key strategic growth driver.

The successful candidate will be the key source of insight into the performance of online casino games. Key responsibilities include:

Developing and delivering regular deep dives into new game launch performance, with key takeaways on what factors have driven game success / failure and key learnings. Each delivery will take into account the objective of the new launch, the extent to which the game achieved what we were aiming for and where we see opportunities to improve

• Collaborating with the Content Team on Quarterly Strategic reviews, highlighting performance trends of our content, changes in player behaviour by market and competitor studio reviews
• Play a leading role in developing new descriptive and predictive capability based on transaction-level data – we have recently made this granular data available and a key part of this role will be to surface insights from this new data set, shape how we use it and brief the back-end engineering team on how to treat this data to make it easy to productionise insight and reporting
• Managing data to day relationships with key stakeholders, including our VP of Content, Creative Directors in different markets and Studio teams and get under the skin of how the team operates, key decision points and how data can help them deliver better games for players
• Scoping bespoke strategic insight projects, with clear problem definition and identified value from solving it, plus managing end-to-end delivery. These will include the need for advanced analytical techniques, such as propensity modelling and regression analysis
• Creating bespoke dashboards to deliver efficiencies in insight creation and enable non-technical users to access key information
• Contributing to the thought leadership agenda for capability development roadmap, by building up in-depth knowledge of both the data sources we have access to and how the business operates

• 3+ years Analysis Experience
• Translating complex data, into simple insights and actionable recommendations
• Presenting insights back to stakeholders and influencing decisions
• Delivering complex analytical projects using more advanced techniques

Skills

• Expert SQL coder – efficient query writer with a passion for generating robust numbers quickly
• Experience with PowerBI
• Python skills useful but not essential
• Able to define analytical problems and relevant, robust solutions
• Clear, impactful, influential presentation skills
• Ability to manage stakeholders effectively

Attributes

• Brilliant analyst – constantly questioning the as-is and applying critical thinking to all problems / opportunities
• Creative, capable of thinking around problems and defining innovative solutions
• Combines high-personal standards with pragmatism to get the job done, breaking projects down into small chunks with an emphasis on getting started and moving, without boiling the ocean
• Highly numerate and passionate about using data to drive change
• Natural relationship builder, who quickly builds trust and maintains it through consistent, high quality delivery
• Results-driven, focused on making an impact and seeing solutions driving change
• Proactive, self-starter / motivator
• Takes ownership of deliveries, setting realistic timelines and keeping promises
• Open communicator – flags issues / concerns, as they arise and keeps stakeholders informed, with good news and bad
• Confident engaging at different levels of management and with people at different levels of technical understanding

Why would you enjoy working with us at Light & Wonder?

• Competitive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as a modern and exciting workplace
• The opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis
• Tangible and genuine development - at Light & Wonder, you can take your career where you want it to go!

And if that’s not enough; you will get to enjoy a stunning work location and flexible working practices whilst we provide you with the guidance and development skills you need to progress quickly and enhance your career.

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