Senior Data Analyst - Breaks & Reconciliations
We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Analyst to join a major Financial Services transformation programme, focused on improving and automating reconciliation processes.
The successful candidate will combine strong data analysis and SQL skills with hands-on experience investigating reconciliation breaks, exceptions and root causes. You'll work closely with Operations, Finance, Risk and Technology teams to identify recurring issues and help define requirements for a future-state automated reconciliation solution.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse reconciliation breaks and operational exceptions
- Conduct root-cause analysis to identify recurring issues and control failures
- Analyse high-volume transactional and operational datasets
- Identify trends, anomalies and break patterns
- Perform data profiling and data quality analysis
- Define business and data requirements for reconciliation automation
- Develop recommendations to reduce manual reconciliation activity
- Work closely with Operations, Finance, Risk, Product, Engineering and Technology teams
Essential Experience
- Strong Financial Services/Banking background
- Hands-on breaks and reconciliations experience
- Strong SQL and data analysis skills
- experience conducting root-cause analysis of operational exceptions
- experience working with complex data environments
- Strong business analysis and requirements gathering capability
Desirable
- Payments operations experience
- Knowledge of settlements, transaction processing or cash management
- experience with reconciliation platforms and control frameworks
- Exposure to automation or data transformation programmes
- Advanced Excel
- Power BI, Tableau or similar visualisation tools
Job Title: Senior Data Analyst
Location: London, UK
Job Type: Contract
Rate:
Not specified
Location:
London
IR35 Status:
Not specified
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
Data & Analytics
Seniority Level:
Senior