Senior Data Analyst – 6 Month FTC

Closing Date: Friday 15 November 2024

Location: London/Chatham/Petersfield/Bradford

We are happy for you to be based in Bradford, Chatham or Petersfiled but please note that occasional travel will be required to our other offices

Working Pattern: Our working style is hybrid, but we recognise the importance of collaborative working with our colleagues often 1 -3 days per week in one of our offices

Benefits: Discretionary annual bonus, 25 days holiday up to 30 days (depending on service), pension scheme with matched company contributions up to 10%, 1 paid day to ‘give back’, LinkedIn Learning for all

Don’t hesitate to apply for a role even if you don’t meet all the criteria; your unique strengths and eagerness to learn can be just as valuable.

You and Your Team:

As a Senior Analyst, you will be responsible for leading the development, implementation, and maintenance of the insights reporting data and legacy data marts.

This role will include defining the requirements for the implementation of management information reports, overseeing the process from liaising with IT teams to provision the required data to the production.

In your day-to-day role, as a Senior Data Analyst, you will:

• Devise and deliver analytical/data driven projects.
• Maintain the legacy data marts; making required business-related changes.
• Gather and define the requirements for data to cater for business/finance business processes.
• Define requirements for data infrastructure to support reporting needs.
• Create and deliver regular data for insights reports adhering to governance framework and DevOps culture to ensure that development conforms to accepted guidelines.
• Provide support with insights reporting build when required.

What will make you stand out?

• Exceptional quantitative skills, with a strong foundation in, or significant exposure to, insight analytics and portfolio management.
• Good understanding in consumer credit, preferably in the sub-prime or online lending sector
• Understanding of corporate governance frameworks
• Proven ability to effectively plan and organise work effectively and prioritise deadlines whilst working at a fast pace.
• Reporting systems experience, preferably Power BI
• Coding experience, preferably SAS and SQL
• Ability to solve complex problems.
• Ability to operate independently and objectively.

Our average process takes up to 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team throughout the process.

As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.

Your working life: 

If you prefer to work part-time, we'll make this happen whenever we can - whether this is to help you meet other commitments or strike a great work-life balance. A fear of losing your current working flexibility shouldn't hinder you from applying for new opportunities, which is why we aim to match your existing flexible working arrangements where possible.

Why work for us?

We’re Vanquis Banking Group plc, an FTSE All Share company and a leading specialist bank, established in 1880. We lend responsibly, providing tailored products and services to 1.75 million UK customers through Vanquis, Moneybarn, and Snoop. Our purpose is simple: to deliver caring banking so our customers can make the most of life’s opportunities.

At Vanquis Banking Group we believe in looking after our colleagues, so we do our best to create a rewarding, engaging, and supportive work environment across our various divisions.

We let our colleagues know we appreciate their hard work by offering competitive salaries, benefits, and a Group wide recognition scheme. All colleagues are eligible to join a pension scheme, and, after six months’ service, you can join our ‘Save as you Earn’ and 'Buy as you Earn' schemes.

We offer a range of training and development opportunities to help each of our colleagues maximise their potential, whatever their role. From your first day working with us, we’ll help you settle into your new role and are happy to talk to you about your career aspirations.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Here at Vanquis Banking Group, we embrace everyone’s unique strengths and identities to be themselves at work. Regardless of how you identify yourself, your sexual orientation, martial or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national background, faith, disability, or age – your experiences and background help enrich our teams, and most importantly help support our customers in the best way possible. At the end of the day, it's our people that help us to fulfil the reason why we’re here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available to help. You can contact us at Talent.Acquisition@vanquis.com

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