Senior Data Analyst

We are seeking a Senior Data Analyst to join our client's Data & Analytics team. This role is ideal for someone with a strong technical foundation, a passion for solving complex problems, and a deep understanding of financial and client behavioural data. You will be responsible for delivering high-impact data analysis, automating reporting processes, and implementing scalable solutions that support strategic decision-making across financial advisory services that support their UK and European businesses. This role is a 12 month contract, operating on a hybrid basis from the client's London office.

Key Responsibilities

Executive level story telling & reporting to influence strategic decisions.

Perform advanced data analysis to uncover insights across financial, sales, and client behavioral datasets.

Design and implement scalable data solutions and automated reporting workflows.

Develop models and dashboards that track client engagement, sales performance, and behavioral trends.

Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate business needs into technical solutions.

Ensure data quality through validation, reconciliation, and transformation of structured and unstructured data.

Document processes and create user-friendly guides for automated tools and reports.

Mentor junior analysts and contribute to team knowledge sharing.

About You

Minimum5+ yearsof data analytics experience ininvestment management,finance, or a related domain.

Aquantitative degree(e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance) is a plus.

Solid understanding offinancial instruments,portfolio analytics, andperformance reporting is a plus.

Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

Technical Skills

Expert Proficiency inSQLand Python for managing unstructured data, cleaning, visualization, storytelling at executive level, statistical analysis & model development

Expert level Tableau and PowerBI for seamless storytelling, visualisations & user experience at executive level

Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills

Strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.

Ability to assess the full scope of a problem and develop scalable, maintainable solutions.

Focus on best practices, code efficiency, and pipeline optimization.

Experience indata quality assurance, validation, and reconciliation.

Ability to work withunstructured or semi-structured dataand transform it into usable formats.

Experience analyzingclient behavioral data, including segmentation, engagement metrics, and conversion analysis.

Collaboration and Communication

Strong stakeholder collaboration skills to gather requirements and align on deliverables.

Effective communication to explain technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders.

Ability to document processes and create user-friendly guides for automated tools.

Experience working incross-functional teams(e.g., Finance, Technology, Sales, Marketing, Data).

Additional Highly Desirable Attributes

Develop SQL/Python scripts to automatically standardize and format complex, unstructured Excel files into clean, report-ready datasets.

Replace manual reporting processes with scalable, automated workflows that improve accuracy and efficiency for the finance team.

Experience withAgile methodologiesor working in aproduct-oriented environment.

Familiarity withdata governance,metadata management, andcompliance.

Ability tomentor junior analystsor contribute to team knowledge sharing.

Comfortable working in afast-paced, high-stakes environmentwith tight deadlines.

About Us

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 Employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career

Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad

Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field