FILLED Data Analyst (ref DM4251)

Data Analyst
Interim, 3 months initially,
Canary Wharf,
Up to £400,
End April Start

Role Summary

Our Client is a Financial Services Regulatory body which receives large amounts of information from the firms they Regulate.

In particular they are asking firms to provide them with standardised information on management information metrics used to manage their businesses.

This amounts to a significant amount of data from around 500 firms which needs analyzing to decide the approach required to supervise the firms.

They require an experienced data analyst to support the sector teams in managing, manipulating and interrogating this data.

Details

Reporting to the manager of the relevant sector team the data analyst will be responsible for:

• Extracting and managing significant volumes of data from various sources using Excel, Access and COGNOS;

• Working with the supervisory teams to manipulate / interrogate the data to ensure it can be effectively utilised by the sector teams;

• Designing and applying analytical tools that can assess the risks to customers that particular products may pose by virtue of how they are designed.

• Liaising with supervision and Data Analysis colleagues to identify and understand sources of data and how these may be used in the business analysis process;

• Statistical validation of the outputs of the data sets; and

• Interrogating and analysing data from the FSA's internal systems including financial, transactional and case management analysis.

Key skills and Requirements

Mandatory

• A strong Data Analyst with experience of managing and manipulating large complex datasets
• Excellent Excel and COGNOS skills and experience.
• Financial Services experience is helpful

Desirable

• Experience of Excel VBA is desirable