Data Consultant - Financial Services

Delta Capita; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Data Consultant in London. The role involves working on data transformation projects for financial services clients, requiring strong skills in data management, programming, and client engagement. This position offers hybrid working with a focus on collaboration and innovation in the financial sector.

Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Services, covering strategy and data management.
• Proficiency in programming languages and data visualization tools.

Responsibilities

• Support data programmes from strategy through to analytics.
• Shape and deliver complex data transformation projects.
• Identify business opportunities and collaborate with sales teams.

Skills

Data Management

Client Engagement

Stakeholder Management

Predictive Modeling

Programming

Data Architecture

Data Visualization

Data Quality

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Python

SQL

Spark

Qlik

Power BI

Tableau

Hadoop

Kafka

Alteryx

Job description

DATA CONSULTANT – Consultant/Senior Consultant/Managing Consultant levels

London - Hybrid

Join our Data, Technology, Automation and Testing (DTAT) Consulting team as a Data Consultant. You will be passionate about data, analytics, and applying insights into our leading financial services clients. This is also a great opportunity for a commercially minded and driven individual to help build out our expanding practice.

To learn more about our Consulting services, click here: Consulting (deltacapita.com).

Key responsibilities:

• Work with clients on multiple disciplines and projects, supporting data programmes from strategy through to analytics and delivery.
• Be passionate about data and its central role in client businesses.
• Adopt a forward-thinking approach to data and analytics, considering the heritage environments of some tier 1 clients.
• Shape and deliver complex data transformation projects, including strategy advising, predictive analytics, machine learning, AI, and data programme management.
• Utilize proprietary technology such as ecosystem NLP tooling to solve client problems.
• Identify business opportunities within existing and new clients. Collaborate with Sales and Marketing teams and leadership to develop campaigns, respond to RFPs, and grow the consulting practice.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience within Financial Services, covering areas like strategy, data architecture, data management, predictive modeling, and dashboard creation. Candidates with diverse skillsets are preferred.
• Project and change management experience, capable of shaping and delivering data programmes.
• Managing critical data elements for regulatory reporting, including data definition, lineage, quality monitoring, and incident management.
• Implementing sound data management practices.
• Designing enterprise data architecture and logical data models.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, SQL, or Spark.
• Experience with data visualization tools like Qlik, Power BI, or Tableau.
• Knowledge of data engineering tools like Hadoop, Kafka, SQL.
• Ability to review and present insights from large, complex data sets using tools like Alteryx or DI.
• Experience with data quality and regulations such as GDPR.
• Client engagement and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to nurture advisor relationships.
• Domain expertise in areas like Investment Banking, Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, or Wealth & Asset Management.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Strong presentation skills and experience in writing successful project proposals.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Prior consulting experience.

How We Work:

Delta Capita is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from qualified candidates regardless of age, race, disability, gender, and other protected statuses. Reasonable accommodations are provided for individuals with disabilities during the application and interview process.

This is a permanent full-time position in London. Please submit your application in English promptly; shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 4 weeks. A valid UK work permit is required.

Hybrid Working Expectations:

Our policy aligns with client requirements, typically involving a minimum of 3 days in the office and 2 days remote per week.

Who We Are:

Delta Capita is a global provider of managed services, consulting, and solutions, combining financial services expertise with technological innovation. Our mission is to reinvent the financial services value chain through technology-based, mutualized services.

Our Offerings:

• Managed Services
• Consulting & Solutions
• Technology

Learn more about Delta Capita and our culture: Working at DC - Delta Capita.