Lead Business Analyst on the People Data & Analytics team, shaping analytical roadmaps and trusted employee data signals to support decisions, dashboards, and AI-powered experiences across the employee journey.
Lead Business Analyst
📜 Description
- Investigate which data is useful for different questions and identify tests or extraction methods when information is missing.
- Structure and analyze data to test solutions and improve business efficiency.
- Support data-based decisions by monitoring analyses, decisions, and project progress.
- Use SQL, Python, and Scala for data extraction; training is provided during the first weeks.
- Understand products and their interactions with other areas.
🛠️ Requirements
- Strong analytical ability, including comfort with numbers, calculations, and mathematical problem-solving.
- Understand business fundamentals, including risks, opportunities, and collaboration between business and technical teams.
- Creative, practical problem-solving skills.
- Consider how decisions and work affect customer experience.
- Willingness to learn tools, receive feedback, and adapt to a multifunctional environment.
✨ Benefits
- Chance of earning equity at Nubank
- Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
- Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)
- NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
- Life Insurance
- Medical Plan
- NuLanguage – Language Course Program
- Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
- Extended Parental Leave
- Daycare Allowance
Full job description
About Nu
Nu serves more than 140 million customers, guided by a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services.
Proprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability.
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Business Analysts at Nubank
As a company at the forefront of the financial revolution in Brazil, Nubank has experienced exponential growth since its inception. To keep your growth path healthy, numerous critical decisions constantly need to be made. Business Analysts are fundamental in the decision process because they must not only be able to deal with large amounts of information and data, but also always think of ways to improve our clients' experience.
It is BA's responsibility to structure the data, analyze it and use the results to test different solutions with the aim of improving Nubank's efficiency.
We are looking for people who are independent and who are not afraid to take the initiative to identify and solve problems that are not necessarily obvious.
You can read more about it in our blog and get some insights into how we work.
As a Business Analyst, you’re expected to:
Do a lot of investigative work, focused on deciding which data makes the most sense to use in which situation. If you don't have the data, it's your job to think about what tests can be done or how to extract the information you need to answer your questions;
Support your team in making data-based decisions by monitoring analysis and decisions, ensuring the flow of projects and making the process of taking risks comfortable despite the uncertainties;
Learning how to work with a large volume of data to build a solid foundation for decision making with calculated risks - even knowing that not all the answers are in the data and/or that not all the data you would like is available;Use tools like SQL, Python and Scala - taught during your first weeks with us - for data extraction;
Understand our products and interactions with other areas;
Take advantage of opportunities to grow and learn from a well-prepared and highly qualified team;
Opportunity to work in a complex, dynamic and diverse environment, participating in projects that will impact a large number of clients.
What are we looking for?
Analytical capacity: ease with numbers and calculations, having the ability to solve problems mathematically;
Business basics: dynamics between risks and opportunities, as well as interaction between business areas and technical areas (products/engineering);
Problem solving: ease and creativity to seek solutions to day-to-day challenges and achieve the best results;
Ability to understand how your decisions and work impact our customers' experience, seeking results that align with our purpose;
Willingness and ease of learning, especially for tools;
Openness to receive feedback and incorporate it into your daily life and development;
Adaptability to the multifunctional environment;
Profiles that add value to Nubank's culture.
Our Benefits
Chance of earning equity at Nubank
Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)
NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
Life Insurance
Medical Plan
Dental Plan
NuLanguage – Language Course Program
Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
Extended Parental Leave
Daycare Allowance
Parental Consultancy
Work-from-home Allowance
Gym Partnerships
30 days of paid vacation
Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable
Work Model for this Role
Hybrid 2-3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details, visit https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/
Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.
To maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. See how our policy works here
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