Senior Data and AI Analyst - 6-month contract / London or Birmingham

The analytics team provide quality analytics and actionable insight to help the business achieve their strategic goals whilst protecting the bank’s financial health. This can include analysis of strategy improvements, understanding customer journeys, identifying opportunities for improving customer experience and ensuring that we are compliant with banking regulations.

The role entails providing accurate analytics using large data sets, presenting insight to stakeholders at different levels of the organisation and partnering with the business to ensure robust analytical project work can be planned and actioned - This is a 6-month contract opportunity at a leading global Bank.

The role holder will also support with the adoption of appropriate tooling and technology to meet the needs of the analytical goals and objectives of the UK Data & Analytics function, ensuring the alignment with the bank’s overarching roadmap and strategy for Data

The job will involve most or all the following activitie

• Collaborate with the Analytics Team Manager and engage with senior stakeholders within the bank to discern business priorities and understand analytical needs to shape and bolster business strategies
• Steering and executing on an array of analytical and statistical modelling projects from concept to completion
• Utilising advanced analytical solutions to extract information from a variety of data sources, translating complex data into comprehensible business language
• Contributing innovative ideas for projects, demonstrating keen business acumen and commercial insight
• Managing the creation, maintenance, and enhancement of a collection of strategic projects and reports
• Managing stakeholder relationships adeptly and aligning expectations
• Upholding stringent standards of accuracy and governance to ensure the integrity and reliability of data-driven insights.

In order to be successful in this position it is likely that you will possess some of all of the following skills and experiences:-

• Strong analytical reasoning
• Highly developed analytical skills with an extra-ordinary attention to detail to extract information from data and translate to business language & financial impacts.
• Ability to shape projects from inception and contribute own ideas.
• Ability to manage own time effectively to ensure delivery of multiple projects.
• Excellent oral & written communication with ability to influence, communicate analysis and recommendations to colleagues at different levels of the organization.
• Demonstrable coding experience required as essential – experience with BigQuery, SQL, Python and Google Cloud Platform
• Proficiency in identifying and harnessing opportunities from extracted information.
• Stakeholder management skills with the ability to explain complex technical solutions to audiences of different technical knowledge and understanding.
• Enthusiastic and curious to learn different analytical capabilities
• Experience delivering valuable advanced analytics projects – including techniques such as machine learning, modelling and Gen-AIExperienced in applying analytical techniques to data to produce explanatory or predictive results
• Working in an analytical role within financial services or an alternative data driven organisation within large analytical teams.
• A current, up-to-date knowledge and awareness of relevant commercial and business issues
• Experience with tooling such as Python, Vertex AI, and BI Tools QlikSense, Looker