Business Intelligence Analyst

Harnham
Preston, United Kingdom
6 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 42K

Job location

Preston, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Microsoft Excel
Big Data
Fraud Prevention and Detection
Power BI
Standard Sql
SQL Databases
Sql Optimization
Data Analytics

Job description

As a Data Analyst focused on fraud and financial crime, you will sit at the heart of reporting and insight generation, supporting risk teams with high-quality analysis. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Extracting, manipulating and analysing large datasets using SQL to support regular reporting and ad hoc analysis.
  • Producing clear, accurate MI, KPIs and KRIs that support fraud and financial crime monitoring.
  • Identifying trends, patterns and anomalies across the customer lifecycle that may indicate fraud or financial crime risk.
  • Translating data into clear written insight, explaining what the data shows and why it matters.
  • Building and maintaining dashboards and reports using Excel, Power BI or similar tools.
  • Working closely with fraud operations, risk, compliance and data teams to ensure insight is well understood and acted upon.
  • Supporting documentation and reporting required for governance, audits and regulatory review.

Requirements

This role is ideal for a BI analyst with strong SQL and reporting expertise who is looking to move into fraud and financial crime. You will build on your analytical foundations while developing specialist exposure to fraud risk, controls and governance in a regulated environment, with clear pathways for progression., * Strong commercial experience as a data analyst, with advanced SQL used for data extraction and analysis.

  • Proven capability in building and maintaining clear, reliable reporting for business stakeholders.
  • Experience working with large datasets in a regulated or risk-aware environment.
  • The ability to communicate insight clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • A genuine interest in fraud, financial crime, risk or compliance, with a desire to develop specialist knowledge in this area.
  • Experience with Excel, Power BI or other visualisation tools.

Benefits & conditions

You will receive a competitive salary between £40,000 and £42,000, alongside a comprehensive benefits package. The role offers strong learning and development support, exposure to senior stakeholders, and a clear pathway into more specialised fraud and financial crime analytics roles.

About the company

They are a large, consumer-facing organisation operating at scale, with a growing financial services and payments capability. Data plays a central role in how they understand customers, manage risk and support commercial decisions. The culture is fast-paced, collaborative and focused on using insight to drive action, with strong investment in analytics capability.

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