Data & Analytics Enablement Lead

Role Overview and Impact

The G&A Data & Analytics team at Xero provides reliable data to support internal teams like Finance, HR, Legal, and Workplace. As the Data & Analytics Enablement Lead, you will oversee how these teams discover, comprehend, and utilize data independently. Your responsibilities include setting the enablement roadmap, establishing guidelines to ensure safe self-service, and creating operational methods that empower G&A teams to independently address their inquiries without delays.

This role involves managing everything from authorized data sources and validated dashboards to standardized metric definitions and everyday best practices. Your success will be reflected by the degree of adoption and confidence users have in data. You will collaborate with senior figures in Finance and HR to integrate data usage into planning, performance reviews, and decision-making. Additionally, you will influence enterprise Data, BI, and Governance teams to incorporate G&A requirements in their developments.

Moreover, you will drive a capability-building agenda, enhancing data and AI literacy throughout the functions and fostering a culture of responsible data usage that goes beyond merely following policies. Your work will focus on creating lasting capabilities and innovating how a swiftly growing company leverages its information.

Team Structure and Collaboration

Xero's G&A Data & Analytics team is a compact, experienced group that spans the corporate functions. You will collaborate closely with analysts, data engineers, and business partners, as well as with central Data, BI, and Governance teams on platform capabilities and semantic layer rollout. The team emphasizes openness and shared learning, ensuring that innovations benefit the entire data community, not just individual functions.

Current Projects

• Utilizing a technology stack including SQL querying on cloud data warehouses, dbt for data transformation, and Tableau with other BI tools for reporting and dashboards.
• Setting the enablement roadmap for G&A data, defining approved data sources, certified dashboards, metric definitions, and naming standards.
• Developing tailored enablement programs and learning paths for Finance, People Experience, and leadership teams.
• Creating exemplary analytics tools such as G&A scorecards and performance dashboards, and advancing responsible AI use in analytics.

Work Location and Style

The position is based in Auckland, with options for Melbourne or Sydney, operating in a hybrid model balancing office work and remote flexibility. Regular team collaboration happens during designated in-person 'boost days,' while the remainder of the time allows personal flexibility.

Desired Qualifications and Experience

• Proven experience in designing and managing enablement or change initiatives that significantly increased business teams' use of data.
• Comfortable influencing senior stakeholders across Finance, People, or other corporate sectors without formal authority.
• Experience with modern analytics technology stacks, including SQL, cloud data warehouses, transformation tools like dbt, and BI platforms such as Tableau.
• Strong skill in simplifying complex data concepts into clear, practical guidance tailored for various audiences.
• Familiarity with defining, monitoring, and using adoption, usage, and impact metrics to drive continuous improvement.
• Commitment to mentoring analysts and business users, fostering community-wide capability growth rather than centralizing knowledge.

Xero encourages applications even if your background does not exactly match all requirements, valuing skills, enthusiasm, and unique perspectives that enrich the team and culture.