Lead insights analyst/Data Analyst

Summary: The Lead Insights Analyst role involves leveraging strong analytics and risk analytics experience to drive insights in a global banking environment. The position requires advanced coding skills and the ability to interpret complex datasets to inform business decisions. This is a 6-month contract role with a hybrid working arrangement, requiring three days in the office. The role is based in one of several UK locations, including Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, or Chester.

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).
• An understanding of consumer lending products, profitability and credit risk and proven ability to drive rapid insights from available data to drive business forward is critical.
• Proven ability to extract, analyse and interpret large, complex datasets to generate actionable business insights.
• 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): £830 daily

City: Birmingham

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other