Senior Business Data Analyst - Python/SQL/Excel sought by leading investment bank based in London.
**Inside IR35 - 3 days a week onsite**
Responsibilities:
*Consult with business end users to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new projects and process enhancements
*Identify key project risks, whether stated or not, and manage to resolution or escalate accordingly
*Quality control information before responding to stakeholders
*Provide direction and technical leadership on complex, high-impact projects and in all phases of the development and implementation process, ensuring essential procedures are followed
*Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex logic, data and system processes
*Develop comprehensive knowledge of how key databases, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals
*Running ad-hoc analysis to analyse, reconcile, and interrogate data
*Developing individual project artifacts as necessary including Business Requirements Documentation (BRDs), Functional Requirements Documentation (FRDs), test planning and scenario documents for user acceptance testing (UAT), project plans as required for all key technical deliveries
*Day-to-day management of individual project responsibilities including milestone setting, task and actions management, co-ordination and execution of plan within required timelines and to stakeholder quality expectations
Skills:
*5+ years Business Analysis experience
*Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with attention to detail
*Extensive SQL experience
*Highly proficient in use of Excel for data analysis
*Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
*Excellent verbal and written communication skills, to effectively produce reports, documentation, and communicate with senior management. Ability to seamlessly communicate complex technical issues to non-technical colleagues
*Self starter with the ability to work independently
*Experience within an investment banking or financial services environment
*Hadoop / Big Data domain experience and exposure to Hive, Impala, and Spark ecosystem technologies (Beneficial, not essential)
*Data Visualization experience
*Experience in writing code in Python to automate processes
Please apply within for further details or call on
Alex Reeder
Harvey Nash Finance & Banking