Senior Data Analyst - London

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.

• Minimum 5+ years of data analytics experience in investment management, finance, or a related domain.
• A quantitative degree (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance) is a plus.
• Solid understanding of financial instruments, portfolio analytics, and performance reporting is a plus.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions. 

Technical Skills

• Expert Proficiency in SQL and 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 in data quality assurance, validation, and reconciliation.
• Ability to work with unstructured or semi-structured data and transform it into usable formats.
• Experience analyzing client 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 in cross-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 with Agile methodologies or working in a product-oriented environment.
• Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, and compliance.
• Ability to mentor junior analysts or contribute to team knowledge sharing.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment with tight deadlines.

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.