Data Analyst
Posted 2 weeks ago by XML International
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Data Engineer / Analyst role focuses on leveraging strong commercial awareness to support data-driven decision-making within a high-performing analytics team. The position requires blending analytical capabilities with business insights to translate complex data into actionable strategies across payments, banking, and marketing initiatives. The ideal candidate will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to optimize processes and support commercial growth. Key responsibilities include advanced data analysis, reporting, and presenting insights to stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform advanced data mining, manipulation, and analysis using multiple data sources.
- Conduct data reconciliation and validation checks as standard practice to ensure accuracy and consistency.
- Identify and define key data points required to support robust analytical frameworks.
- Build and maintain business reporting and data visualizations to communicate insights clearly to stakeholders.
- Deliver customer profiling and segmentation to support targeted commercial and marketing strategies.
- Perform conversion and funnel analysis to evaluate customer behavior and campaign effectiveness.
- Support banking and payments analysis, with a focus on debit payment flows and current account performance.
- Contribute to profitability analysis and the development of business cases to support investment decisions.
- Design and evaluate marketing campaigns, including target audience definition, proposition design, test-and-learn frameworks, and measurement with statistical significance.
- Drive process optimization and automation, embedding efficiency and scalability into analytics workflows.
- Present insights confidently to senior stakeholders, translating technical findings into clear commercial narratives.
- Deliver high-quality outputs at pace, managing multiple priorities effectively.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in data engineering and/or data analysis roles.
- Advanced capability in data mining, data manipulation, and validation.
- Proven experience with data visualization and business reporting tools.
- Strong understanding of commercial analytics, customer behavior, and performance measurement.
- Experience with customer segmentation and profiling.
- Hands-on experience conducting conversion analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to build business cases and assess banking profitability.
- High level of comfort working with stakeholders and presenting insights clearly and confidently.
- Strong problem-solving mindset with a natural inclination toward optimization and automation.
- Debit payments expertise, ideally with experience in current accounts within a UK financial services environment (desired).
- Experience working in banking, payments, or financial services (desired).
- Exposure to large-scale commercial or marketing analytics programs (desired).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Manchester Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Data Engineer / Analyst (Commercial Analytics)
About the Role
We are looking for a Data Engineer / Analyst with strong commercial awareness to join a high-performing analytics team supporting data-driven decision-making across payments, banking, and marketing initiatives. This role blends deep analytical capability with business insight, enabling stakeholders to translate complex data into clear, actionable strategies. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, using data to evaluate performance, design campaigns, optimize processes, and support commercial growth. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, commercially minded, and comfortable operating at pace in a dynamic environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform advanced data mining, manipulation, and analysis using multiple data sources.
- Conduct data reconciliation and validation checks as standard practice to ensure accuracy and consistency.
- Identify and define key data points required to support robust analytical frameworks.
- Build and maintain business reporting and data visualizations to communicate insights clearly to stakeholders.
- Deliver customer profiling and segmentation to support targeted commercial and marketing strategies.
- Perform conversion and funnel analysis to evaluate customer behavior and campaign effectiveness.
- Support banking and payments analysis , with a focus on debit payment flows and current account performance.
- Contribute to profitability analysis and the development of business cases to support investment decisions.
- Design and evaluate marketing campaigns , including: Target audience definition Proposition design Test-and-learn frameworks Measurement with statistical significance
- Drive process optimization and automation , embedding efficiency and scalability into analytics workflows.
- Present insights confidently to senior stakeholders, translating technical findings into clear commercial narratives.
- Deliver high-quality outputs at pace , managing multiple priorities effectively.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in data engineering and/or data analysis roles.
- Advanced capability in data mining, data manipulation, and validation .
- Proven experience with data visualization and business reporting tools .
- Strong understanding of commercial analytics , customer behavior, and performance measurement.
- Experience with customer segmentation and profiling .
- Hands-on experience conducting conversion analysis .
- Demonstrated ability to build business cases and assess banking profitability .
- High level of comfort working with stakeholders and presenting insights clearly and confidently.
- Strong problem-solving mindset with a natural inclination toward optimization and automation .
Desired / Nice to Have
- Debit payments expertise , ideally with experience in current accounts within a UK financial services environment.
- Experience working in banking, payments, or financial services .
- Exposure to large-scale commercial or marketing analytics programs.
Profile We’re Looking For
- Commercially curious and business-oriented
- Detail-focused with strong data integrity standards
- Confident communicator and influencer
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-expectation environments
- Proactive, adaptable, and impact-driven
This role offers the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact data initiatives while partnering closely with commercial and marketing leaders to drive measurable business outcomes.