Description
At Zopa, our Analysts don't just analyse the business – they help shape it.
From designing our products and customer experiences, to deciding our lending criteria and target markets, our Analysts are at the heart of every major decision we make.
You'll combine creative problem solving with strong numerical and communication skills, turning data into insights and ideas into real-world impact.
You'll have meaningful ownership from the start, while learning from talented colleagues across the business.
How will we help you get started?
You don't need to arrive knowing every tool or technique!
Your first four months will include a structured graduate training programme designed to give you a broad foundation across Analytics at Zopa.
You'll rotate through four placements and complete a project for each, giving you the chance to apply your learnings to real business problems.
We make extensive use of AI-tools (both generic foundation models and skills developed locally) in all our work including knowledge discovery, code development, and task automation.
Training in relevant AI tool use is also part of each of the placements:
- Intro to Zopa & Technical Skills – get to know Zopa, our products and how we use data, while deepening your technical skills (including SQL and Python)
- AI Applications – Learn how analysis using large language models and associated transformer-based architectures is applied to real business problems
- Data Science – Develop your data science skills, including building gradient boosted and sequence-based models, and put them into practice in a competition to build the best model to address a real prediction problem
- Product Economics – understand the economics behind our product design and lending decisions, and learn techniques for forecasting future value
What teams do Graduate Analysts join at Zopa?
After completing our training programme, you'll join one of our teams.
As you grow, you'll have opportunities to explore new projects and internal moves.
You can expect to:
- Take real ownership from day one – using data to investigate problems, test ideas and recommend improvements to our products, customer experience and business performance.
- Build your technical skills using cutting edge tools and techniques
- Turn data into insights and communicate these to stakeholders across functions and levels
Could you be our next Graduate Analyst?
We're not expecting you to know everything already.
We're looking for people who are:
- Numerically confident – comfortable working with mathematics at A-level complexity
- Analytical – able to break down complex challenges, apply logic and make thoughtful judgements
- Naturally curious – keen to ask questions, explore data and understand how things could work better
- Excited by technology – interested in learning tools such as Python and SQL and exploring how AI is changing the way we work
- Ready to Dream Big – curious and ambitious, willing to challenge existing thinking and make progress even when the answer isn't obvious
- Prepared to Own It – willing to take initiative, take responsibility for outcomes and follow things through
- Motivated to Win Together – collaborative, open to different perspectives and focused on achieving great outcomes with others