Sportsbook Business Analyst - [019952]

  • Full-time

Company Description

Playtech Sports specialises in the provision of online betting and gaming software to UK and global service providers. Headquartered in London and founded in 2005, our GenBet product provides operators with a robust and secure central customer management platform onto which any number of products can be added and managed. 

Our flexible Sportsbook product allows the operator to tailor their online service whilst a comprehensive back office and reporting suite provides powerful tools for event and market management. Playtech Sports has been a part of Playtech since January 2012, meaning that existing and future customers now benefit from the industry leading GenBet product suite, delivered on Playtech's comprehensive IMS (information management solution).

Job Description

Responsibilities:

  • Understanding and identifying strengths/weaknesses of the sportsbook product
  • Analysing business cases, regulatory and other relevant documentation
  • Detailed requirements gathering and definition in discussion with the Product and Tech teams
  • Writing comprehensive reports and analysis of findings and recommendations
  • Working with & guiding digital solutions, UI/UX and development teams 
  • Liaise & advise Executive Management, Operator, Trading, Developer, Testing, Design & Marketing teams
  • Identify and advise stakeholders on technology solutions
  • Use analytics and measurement tools as the basis for recommendations
  • Continually monitoring industry best practice, licensing and compliance
  • Documenting software systems and business processes
  • Generating and maintaining a library of supporting evidence for regulatory audits and submissions
  • Specific focus on US regulatory analysis
  • Coordinating sportsbook activities in response to ad-hoc and cyclical regulatory audits
  • Liaising with external auditors and regulators to ensure compliant sportsbook releases in all active jurisdictions
  • Auditing new product specifications and inserting regulatory provisions/exclusions
  • Liaising with Playtech Compliance in all matters pertaining to GDPR, software suppliers, regulatory change, and potential regulatory breaches
  • Specifying software and process amendments in response to regulatory change
  • Specifying software and process amendments in readiness for operating in new jurisdictions

Qualifications

Ideal candidate will have:

  • Knowledge of the sports betting industry and broadly experienced in Online & Retail operations
  • Proven Business Analysis experience with a strong focus on technology in highly transactional products (Data, Trading, Finance, Sports Betting etc)
  • Strong requirements analysis and specification writing skills
  • Experience with Jira
  • Ability to communicate with stakeholders, operators, developers, solutions and designers.
  • Creative thinking backed by strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 
  • Good attention to detail, an ability to assimilate, sort and aggregate complex information quickly 
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills, able to write clearly and interact well with all levels of audience. 
  • An understanding of software development an ability to work closely with Technology teams in scheduling functional and non-functional requirements. 
  • Self-driven, and ability to work at pace in a dynamic organisation
  • Ability to understand user experience and the implications UX/UI design can have on a user's behaviour
  • Working knowledge or Google Analytics and GA4 
  • Ability to connect multiple data sources in order to produce a high-level summary of complex scenarios
  • Desire to proactively solve difficult data problems

Additional Information

This is an opportunity for you to join a fun and supportive, fast-paced team, with an emphasis and enthusiasm for technology.

We offer a competitive salary, training, health insurance, life assurance, childcare vouchers, season ticket loans, pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, subsidised gym membership, 25 days annual leave and more.

We offer the very best working facilities in our London office which includes chill-out areas containing pool table, and games consoles. Our working atmosphere is creative, relaxed and professional, with a lot of bright people solving a lot of interesting problems.

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