Senior Data Analyst

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Analyst to join a major Financial Services transformation programme, focused on improving and automating reconciliation processes., * 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

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., * 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