Econometrician/Economist

Summary

Join Xero's Small Business Insights (XSBI) team as an experienced Econometrician to leverage data for impactful economic insights. You will work with large datasets, collaborating with economists and analysts to deliver high-impact metrics. This role involves simplifying and automating business processes, ensuring high-quality metrics, and publishing quarterly reports. The position is a 6-month fixed-term contract open to remote applicants. You'll play a key role in the team's modernization efforts, partnering with the Data and Analytics team. This opportunity allows you to apply econometric methods innovatively and influence real-world outcomes for small businesses.

Requirements

• You are an economist / econometrician with demonstrated experience working with large, novel, innovative datasets and models
• You excel at working collaboratively within the team, and cross-functionally to deliver on the modernisation objectives in line with the schedule
• You have strong communications skills. XSBI partners with a variety of stakeholders from across Xero such as the Communication and Government Relation teams so it’s crucial that you’re able to explain complex concepts in simple terms
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar domains and work with complex and diverse datasets
• Provide objectives and goals with loose guidelines/directions
• Have an open mind and the flexibility to change opinions
• Advanced knowledge of SQL for data extraction, manipulation and analysis
• Data Platform knowledge
• Experimentation & testing knowledge

Responsibilities

• Identify and deliver initiatives to streamline, optimise and/or automate XSBI business processes in our new platform, in partnership with the XSBI and Data and Analytics Team
• Delivery of high quality and trusted insights. Undertake data/econometric analysis. Can interpret the findings and present the results to a technical and non technical audience; in both a written and verbal format
• Undertake reviews of documentation, data, models and code pre/post changes to ensure that the outcomes are aligned with expectations
• Undertake quality assurance, provide commentary and insights about the XSBI metrics on a regular basis, in partnership with the XSBI and Communications teams
• Update existing documentation / create new as required for the new platform and business processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Python or R skills is preferred
• Advanced Econometrics knowledge
• Data visualisations, BI tools such as (Tableau, Power BI, Microstrategy)

Benefits

• Very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!)
• Dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing
• An Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Income protection
• Wellbeing and sports programmes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• An Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working
• Career development