Head of Data

SydneyFull-timeexecutive

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Overview

Who is Plenti? Plenti is a fintech lender, providing faster, fairer loans by leveraging its smart technology. Plenti is a dynamic and innovative business that is growing strongly.

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Who is Plenti?

Plenti is a fintech lender, providing faster, fairer loans by leveraging its smart technology. Plenti is a dynamic and innovative business that is growing strongly. By continuing to deliver better customer experiences, Plenti is taking market share from incumbent players in the personal lending, renewable energy, and automotive finance markets.

We are a fast moving and ambitious business that seeks to recruit smart and capable people, who can take ownership of their role to help the business thrive. With over 250 people based in Australia, Plenti is of a size where everyone can make a difference in their role and help us realise our very big ambitions as a team, as we go about building Australia’s best lender.

Plenti is a founder led business that launched in 2014, listed on the ASX since 2020 with annual revenue of over $250 million and a loan portfolio of over $3 billion.

About the Role

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Define and execute a clear data strategy aligned to Plenti’s growth, risk and efficiency objectives
Map how data is generated and used across the business and identify opportunities to unlock incremental value
Translate strategic priorities into a sequenced roadmap with clear ownership, milestones and outcomes
Balance rapid delivery of high-impact use cases with long-term platform and capability build

Business Intelligence & Insights

Establish a best-in-class BI capability as the single source of truth for business performance, defining and governing core metrics, semantic layers and reporting standards
Replace manual and fragmented reporting with scalable, automated BI solutions accessible to executives, teams and partners
Lead the evolution from descriptive reporting (“what happened”) to diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive insights
Partner with the business — Risk, Finance, Product, Marketing, Sales and Operations — to deliver analytics that improve credit performance, pricing, customer acquisition and conversion, and operational efficiency
Embed actionable insights into workflows through dashboards, alerts and tools that empower business users to act

Platform, Architecture and Governance

Own the data platform — the design and evolution of our Databricks-based environment, ensuring scalable, reliable and cost-effective pipelines and architecture
Productionise models in partnership with Engineering, Risk and Product, embedding them into customer and operational workflows
Implement robust governance across data quality, lineage, privacy and regulatory compliance

Leadership and Operating Model

Lead a high-performing team across data engineering, BI and analytics
Define the operating model that maximises impact and alignment across data disciplines
Foster a data-driven culture built on continuous improvement and shared accountability

Stakeholder Engagement

Advocate for data across the business, partnering with executives to identify high-value use cases and drive adoption
Report transparently on data platform performance, usage, ROI and risk
Establish cross-functional forums to align on priorities, resolve issues and drive execution

10+ years' of experience, with 5 years in leadership across large-scale data and analytics teams in complex, regulated organisations
Proven experience transitioning organisations from reporting-led models to intelligence-led, insight-driven environments
Strong track record of building, leading, and scaling high-performing, multidisciplinary data teams
Demonstrated success in delivering data strategies that translate into measurable business outcomes
Deep expertise across modern cloud data platforms (e.g. Databricks), data engineering, BI, and advanced analytics / AI/ML
Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders
Experience in financial services or lending is highly regarded; experience operating in a regulated environment is essential