Data Scientist in Manchester, Greater Manchester

The Opportunity

A leading financial consultancy is seeking a Data Analyst to join a high-profile finance data programme. This role is ideal for someone with strong SQL expertise and a solid understanding of financial services data who enjoys investigating complex datasets, improving data quality and working closely with business and technology stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse and reconcile large finance datasets using SQL.
• Investigate and resolve data quality issues across multiple systems.
• Define business rules, data mappings and acceptance criteria.
• Support testing, validation and release activities.
• Produce clear analysis and reporting for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Work closely with finance, risk, data and technology teams.

Requirements

• Strong SQL skills including joins, aggregations, CTEs and performance optimisation.
• Experience working with financial services data.
• Data reconciliation and data quality experience.
• Strong problem-solving and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau or Looker is beneficial.
• Knowledge of BigQuery, data governance or Python would be advantageous.