Data Analyst

Company Description

Shawbrook is a specialist bank driven by a purpose to power up ingenuity to create opportunity, every single day.             

We offer a diverse range of savings and loan products. From personal and business savings accounts and loans for weddings and new cars, to complex financial credit facilities for businesses requiring significant investment and mortgages for landlords with multiple properties – no two customers are ever the same.     

We give our customers the best-of-both worlds; uniquely combining strong digital capabilities with human expertise and ingenuity to deliver the best outcomes. We rise to the challenge of a complex case or unconventional circumstances, and we love to make things happen. By being creative, practical, and personal, we know we can always find the right solution for our customers.

If you’re willing to roll up your sleeves, contribute new ideas and believe anything is possible, you’re our kind of person

Work with us because you:

• Want to be part of a bank built for the dynamics of the modern world
• Relish a challenge and enjoy a fast-paced, innovative, and hardworking culture
• Enjoy finding new and better ways to solve complexity and make things happen
• Want to belong to a diverse culture that stands shoulder to shoulder with minority and underrepresented groups
• Care about society and the environment and want to be part of a business that cares too
• Want to continue to grow professionally and be the best version of yourself

Job Description

We are seeking a Data Analyst to work in the Data Platforms team to support data-driven decision-making across the bank’s operations, with a focus on regulatory management, and financial reporting and customer insights.

The right candidate will demonstrate curiosity, critical thinking, and a strong drive to improve processes through data. You will be proactive, collaborative, with the ability to prioritise tasks in a fast-paced environment and a focus on aligning analytical outputs with business goals.

In this role you will typically:

• Collect and consolidate data using SQL across both on-premises and cloud-based data sources
• Develop various data quality and Critical data element metrics and controls
• Assist in ensuring data accuracy, completeness, and consistency is maintained across our data
• Build and maintain reports, dashboards, and other data visualizations to communicate findings effectively
• Collaborate with business teams to gather requirements and resolve technical challenges
• Conduct ad-hoc analyses to support key initiatives and answer critical business questions
• Problem solve with the tools and resources at hand

Qualifications

• Confident in SQL and Python for data analysis and transformation
• Experience with Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Fabric is highly desirable
• Understanding of data modeling concepts (e.g., star schema, snowflake, normalized and denormalized structures)
• Experience working in Change Control or Agile methodologies
• Financial services, or other regulated entity experience desirable

Additional Information

Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market-leading family-friendly policies, such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment, becoming a parent, or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects, including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 27 days' holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those who go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme is designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focuses on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done