Data Analyst

Shawbrook Bank; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank is seeking a proactive Data Analyst to support data-driven decision-making across operations. You will focus on regulatory management and customer insights, utilizing SQL and Python to enhance data processes, collaborate with business teams, and ensure data accuracy.

Benefits

Market-leading family-friendly policies

Free access to mindfulness programs

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work scheme

Discounts on gym memberships

Contributory pension scheme

Minimum of 27 days' holiday

Option to buy or sell holiday days

Participation in annual bonus scheme

Recognition scheme for role models

Qualifications

• Experience with SQL and Python for data analysis and transformation.
• Desirable experience with Azure Synapse and Microsoft Fabric.
• Understanding of data modeling concepts.

Responsibilities

• Collect and consolidate data using SQL.
• Develop data quality metrics and controls.
• Build and maintain reports and dashboards.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Analytical thinking

Collaboration

Tools

Azure Synapse Analytics

Microsoft Fabric

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, 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 prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment and a focus on aligning analytical outputs with business goals.

In this role, you will typically:

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

The Person

• 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 is desirable.

The Opportunity

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 combine strong digital capabilities with human expertise to deliver the best outcomes. We rise to challenges and love to make things happen. By being creative, practical, and personal, we 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.

Reward

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 personalized support through fertility treatment, becoming a parent, or menopause.
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering 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 memberships.
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service.

Your Lifestyle - We support work-life balance through benefits such as:

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

Your Contribution - We reward those who go the extra mile:

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme.
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme to acknowledge role models and colleagues.