FX Data Analyst - Oracle/SQL

A Leading Financial Services firm are looking to hire a Data Analyst, ideally who holds extensive experience working on FX projects.

  • £650 - £750 a day (Inside IR35/Umbrella or PAYE only)
  • The role is an initial 12 month contract with scope to roll into a couple of years
  • Hybrid - Based in London (2 or 3 days a week in the office/ 2 or 3 days a week at home)
  • London based

Role Overview

  • A complex integration with upstream and downstream systems, will require careful project planning and execution.
  • The candidate will be required to research alternative products to current data ware house solution
  • Defining data standards for inputs is crucial to success of this program.
  • As such the candidate will play a pivotal role in laying foundations.
  • The span of operation will include liaising with Senior Management in Technology and Finance, Developers, Business Analysts, Teams in Operations and Front Office technology.
  • This unique breadth of operation presents excellent visibility and growth opportunities to the candidate.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

  • In-depth understanding of the software development process and overall project life cycle (Essential)
  • Able to understand business user requirements (Essential)
  • Excellent business acumen and client facing skills (Essential)
  • 5+ years of experience in data analysis, preferably in large-scale transformation projects
  • A conceptual thinker who can present complex ideas and topics to a wide audience (both technical and non-technical) (Essential)
  • Good analytical skills, able to contribute to major business change (Essential)
  • Self assured, dynamic, open to ideas, able to influence others (Essential)
  • Able to work to tight timescales, be commercially aware, and have the ability to work well within a team structure (Essential)
  • Ability to quickly react to situations whilst maintaining a high quality of work (Essential)
  • Self starter with a "can do, will do" attitude (Essential)
  • Knowledge of banking systems and products (Essential)

Other Essential Skills

  • Oracle
  • SQL on SQL Server and T-SQL and PL SQL
  • Excel (Advanced)
  • Data Modelling
  • Data Management & Quality Improvement

Preferred Skills

  • Familiarity with big data technologies
  • Hands-on experience with Python or R for data analysis
  • Understanding of data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPS, etc)
  • Strong understanding of E2E data lifecycle management and governance principles

Key Responsibilities:

  • Act as a technology Business lead for delivery of Oracle implementations
  • Research product landscape in market and provide quantified recommendation for solution.
  • Create task breakdown and lead development team towards successful execution.
  • Work with Product Processor Technology Manager in re-engineer legacy systems.
  • Work on data standards, data storage strategy and data fabric
  • Working closely with other engineering leads to manage cross team delivery.
  • Attending workshops, working groups and other relevant meetings with senior representatives from different lines of business.
  • Applying sound ethical judgement regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
  • Ability and willingness to understand application use cases and take ownership of database design, storage , partitioning and data archiving. * Ability to performance tune large size and complex databases
  • Work as a guide and mentor for application team & foster an engineering culture.
  • Define database release and testing strategy.
  • Must have managed complex technology projects for a major investment bank.
  • Experience in financial technology, preferably in Financial Accounting, Markets or Corporate banking
  • Demonstrable delivery risk management in project plan and dependencies and ability to organize/facilitate conversation leading to an acceptable conclusion.
  • Experience of working with developers and BAs on detailed IT work plans, schedule
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