Specialist, Data and Analytics

Ashurst Perkins Coie; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Health and wellbeing benefits

Career advancement

Job summary

Ashurst Perkins Coie Risk Advisory in London is seeking a Specialist (Senior Consultant) in Data & Analytics to join a growing, expert team. You will collaborate with legal and risk professionals to deliver data-driven insights and governance across regulatory domains, including AI, privacy, cybersecurity, and financial crime.

You will design analytics, governance frameworks, and visualisation solutions, working in a flexible hybrid setup with on-site collaboration and leadership exposure.

Qualifications

• 1-4 years' experience in data governance, data management, analytics, or AI, ideally within consulting or a large organisation.
• Strong capability in developing data-driven solutions and communicating with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Interest or experience in non-financial risk (e.g., regulation, privacy, cyber, financial crime).
• Comfortable working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and supporting multiple project streams.

Responsibilities

• Modelling and advanced analytics using strategic data assets and regulatory rules to uncover patterns and drive value.
• Designing and developing data visualisation and reporting solutions to support investigations, disputes, regulatory breaches.
• Embedding data governance frameworks to demonstrate compliance with data management obligations and risk control.
• AI governance framework design, and documentation and operationalisation of AI policies and standards.
• Performing data discovery and profiling to inform risk strategies, e.g., cyber breach contexts.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Analytics

AI

Tools

Alteryx

SQL

PowerBI

Tableau

Python

Job description

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

• Flexible work options - part-time, working from home and additional leave
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs

The Opportunity

Specialist (Senior Consultant) - Data & Analytics | Risk Advisory, London

Ashurst Perkins Coie Risk Advisory was created to respond to client demand and is designed to provide risk expertise that complements Ashurst Perkin Coies's core legal services. With dedicated teams of legal and risk professionals working side by side, it brings together the technical expertise and critical thinking required to operationalise laws and regulations and help clients to achieve their goals. After successfully establishing the division in Australia in 2020, we launched our UK practice in October 2022 as part of our continued growth journey.

We provide the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth story, working with an expertise-led team that has been consistently growing since its inception, and is dedicated to collaboration, diversity, transparency, and innovation. Our vision is to create a unique culture in the consulting market based around a flat, collaborative structure that offers everyone the opportunity to work closely with Directors, Partners, and clients on engagements. This means you have on the job training with your leaders, direct involvement with business development, clear recognition for your performance, and greater career opportunities.

For further information, please view the brochure on our careers page or visit Risk Advisory

About the role

We support our clients by working in close collaboration with our legal counterparts, and teams across the Risk Advisory practice, to focus on how data can be harnessed to deliver a best-in-class legal-led advisory service. We combine our AI, analytics, data management and data governance expertise to design and deliver data-driven legal and risk management solutions across a vast array of domains including forensics, investigations, AI, privacy, cybersecurity, regulation, and financial crime to name just a few.

In this role, you will:

• Modelling and advanced analytics, through leveraging strategic data assets and codifying business and regulatory rules to uncover, interpret, and communicate patterns in data, to drive business value and manage risk.
• Designing and developing data visualisation and reporting solutions, to facilitate legal and risk insights in investigations, disputes, regulatory breaches and more.
• Designing, implementing, and embedding data risk management and governance frameworks to demonstrate compliance to data management obligations and the adequate management of data risk.
• AI governance framework design and implementation, and documentation and operationalisation of AI policies, procedures, and standards.
• Performing data discovery and profiling exercises to inform legal and risk strategies, for example in the context of a large cyber breach.

This is a full-time, permanent role based in our London office with hybrid working.

More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site.

About you

• 1-4 years' experience in data governance, data management, analytics, or AI, ideally within consulting or a large organisation.
• Strong capability in developing data-driven solutions and communicating with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Interest or experience in non-financial risk (e.g., regulation, privacy, cyber, financial crime).
• Comfortable working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and supporting multiple project streams.
• It is desirable if you're experienced and comfortable with the common tools and frameworks in this space. For our analytics and AI work, we use a combination of Alteryx, SQL, PowerBI, Tableau and Python, with frequent use of our GenAI tools. Familiarity with key data management frameworks (e.g. DCAM, CDMC, DAMA-DMBoK) is preferable, but no worries if you're not an expert in these; experience with other common analytics tools and frameworks is also fine.