Lead Insight Analyst

Summary: The Lead Insights Analyst role involves working with a global banking client on a 6-month contract basis, focusing on analytics within consumer lending. The position requires strong analytical skills to drive insights from complex datasets and deliver actionable business solutions. The role is hybrid, requiring three days a week in the office, and is based in Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds, or Chester. The successful candidate will leverage advanced coding skills and a deep understanding of data platforms to lead analytical projects and communicate insights effectively.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate business needs into data products, analytics and machine-learning solutions.
• Build and maintain data assets, models and metadata to global standards.
• Deliver insights across lending, consumer behaviour, marketing, pricing and growth.
• Develop predictive, forecasting and stress-testing models on large datasets.
• Lead complex analytical projects, clearly communicating risk, reward and customer impact.

Key Skills:

• Strong analytics or risk analytics experience, ideally within consumer lending (secured or unsecured).
• Understanding of consumer lending products, profitability and credit risk.
• Proven ability to extract, analyse and interpret large, complex datasets.
• Advanced coding skills in SAS, SQL, Python (or similar) for data extraction, validation and analysis.
• Deep understanding of data platforms and technologies (relational, NoSQL, data warehouses, metadata and transformation tools).
• Experience delivering analytics projects across teams, with awareness of FCA regulation in a lending environment.
• Highly self-motivated, detail-oriented and able to work independently under pressure to tight deadlines.

Salary (Rate): £105.00/hr

City: Sheffield

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT