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We have seen unprecedented growth in our specialist sector and always have a wide range of vacancies at both junior and senior level including AI Jobs, Data Science jobs, Data Analyst jobs, and Big Data jobs, all available throughout the UK, France, United States, and the Netherlands
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Lead Credit Strategy Analyst
Manchester
£40000 - £55000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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LEAD CREDIT RISK STRATEGY ANALYST
£55,000
MANCHESTER
THE COMPANY
This growing UK Bank are seeking an experienced candidate to lead credit strategy and wider analytics across their lending book. This role offers an excellent opportunity to drive insight in a hands-on analytical role, whilst owning projects and profitability for the business.
THE ROLE
- Developing end-to-end lending strategies across the lending portfolios
- Broader portfolio analysis and driving insight into customer trends and behaviours
- Close work with internal and external stakeholders to drive business performance
- Co-ordination with wider teams to deploy strategies and working closely with senior stakeholders to implement change
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Prior consumer lending experience is essential, in lending strategy work
- Prior experience in portfolio analytics, customer analytics and wider reporting in a credit risk environment is essential
- Experience using SAS, SQL or Python
SALARY AND BENEFITS
- Up to £55,000 starting salary
- Discretionary bonus
- Pension contribution scheme
- 26 days holiday
- Private medical scheme
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Rosie Walsh through the ‘Apply’ link
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Lead Credit Risk Analyst
Manchester
£60000 - £65000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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LEAD CREDIT RISK ANALYST
UP TO £65,000
MANCHESTER
This role does not offer sponsorship.
This company is going through growth and looking to take on a new Lead Credit Analyst. You will set the risk appetite for the company while maintaining and monitoring performance of portfolios. You will be able to shape and drive credit strategy for unsecured lending products.
THE COMPANY
This is an exciting opportunity to work for a global banking and financial services institution. With over 150 years of history this company is well established and known for its services globally.
THE ROLE
You will be doing the following daily:
- Develop, enhance, and optimise credit risk and collections strategies, leveraging data-driven insights to make high-quality decisions for our customers.
- Conduct analyses to evaluate credit portfolios against agreed-upon performance indicators, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- Drive business growth by contributing to Workforce Planning and Benefits (WPB) initiatives, providing analytics for the design and implementation of new lending products, improving existing features, and managing customer exposure.
- Take the lead on complex analytical projects, seeing them through to completion with minimal guidance.
- Formulate and clearly communicate conclusions and proposals, considering risk, reward, and customer impact, and collaborate with teams to facilitate decision-making.
- Identify solutions to emerging risk issues, changing priorities, project completion challenges, and areas of conflict.
- Challenge established policies and procedures when appropriate, proposing improvements to enhance efficiency.
- Ensure portfolio strategies and processes adhere to relevant regulations and regulatory guidance.
- Foster strong interpersonal relationships, engaging with the broader organization to offer insights and support changes that improve customer outcomes.
- Cultivate relationships with and contribute to the development of junior team members and offshore analysts, enhancing their knowledge, understanding, and experience.
- Provide progress reports on initiatives to Senior Management.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Previous experience working within the Credit Risk space on secured or unsecured products.
- Strong analytical capability, using SAS, SQL or Python
- Knowledge of FCA regulations
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong numerical degree for a Russel Group University
- Strong numerical degree from a Russel Group Universities.
THE BENEFITS
- Up to £65,000 salary.
- Tailored professional development opportunities.
- Private healthcare.
- Contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.
- Bonus scheme.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Gaby Adamis via the Apply link on this page.
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Senior BI Analyst
Manchester
£50000 - £60000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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BI Analyst
Up to £60,000
Fully remote
THE CLIENT
This is an exciting opportunity to join an industry-leading organisation in the finance sector.
THE ROLE
This role is part of a centralized team that supports the data requirements across the entire organization. You will manage the full data lifecycle, including data extraction, transformation, and loading.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
SQL
Cloud Service – Azure, AWS or GCP
Financial services or similar industry experience
NICE TO HAVE
Python
Snowflake
APPLY
Send an email or apply below to register your interest.
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Senior Credit Portfolio Analyst
Manchester
£55000 - £70000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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Senior Credit Portfolio Analyst
Up to £70,000
Manchester
Hybrid
The Company
An excellent opportunity a reputable challenger bank who are focused on delivering both savings, mortgages, business banking, and motor finance to their customers. This role will be sitting in the 2nd line delivering portfolio insights, developing scorecard models, overseeing model implementation, and developing lending strategies.
The Role
As a Senior Credit Portfolio Analyst, you will be:
- Developing and implementing credit risk strategies across different portfolios with the focus on mortgages.
- Developing scorecards for originations/acquisitions
- Implementation of scorecard models for the business
- Overseeing the model development and implementation across the banks portfolios
- Analysis of portfolio trends for actional insights for senior stakeholders
- Using SAS and Python daily in this role.
Your skills and experience
For you to be successful as a Senior Credit Portfolio Analyst, you will need:
- Strong experience working as a credit risk analyst for another bank/fintech
- Experience developing credit risk strategies for lending products.
- Experience using SAS and ideally python
- Experience developing or working on scorecard models
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.
- Mathematical degree
Benefits
Up to £70,000 + competitive benefits package
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Claims Insight Manager
Manchester
£61000 - £80000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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CLAIMS INSIGHT MANAGER
£60,000
FULLY REMOTE
This role does not offer sponsorship.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a market-leading insurance business, utilising smart data and technology. They have been undergoing rapid growth and currently have 1.4 million customers.
THE COMPANY
This business is a UK-based insurer offering a range of home and motor insurance. They have been nominate Employer of the Year and have amazing Glassdoor reviews!
THE ROLE
You can expect to be involved in the following day-to-day:
- Produce regular reports for senior stakeholders, providing insight into current and projected claims indemnity performance to support monthly and quarterly executive updates.
- Analyse trends, anomalies, and opportunities in claims performance aligned with executive priorities.
- Develop and maintain robust data models (primarily using SAS), leveraging multiple data sources to deliver actionable insights across key performance metrics.
- Partner with operational teams to identify and implement initiatives that improve indemnity outcomes, ensuring follow-through to execution.
- Mentor and support junior analysts, with a focus on enhancing their technical capabilities, particularly in SAS.
- Work closely with Finance to monitor and demonstrate realised benefits across cost, income, and indemnity performance.
- Liaise with external benchmarking providers to supply accurate, detailed data for ongoing comparison against market standards and to inform internal performance indicators.
- Assist with modelling and forecasting the impact of internal and external factors on claims inflation.
- Represent the Claims Insight Manager in key meetings with stakeholders.
- Contribute to wider Performance team initiatives, applying skills flexibly to meet evolving business requirements.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Previous experience with data analysis using SAS or SQL.
- Previous experience using data and insights to understand claims performance.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Degree in a STEM subject.
THE BENEFITS
- Discretionary bonus.
- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays).
- Life insurance.
- Private Medical insurance.
- Pension contribution.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Gaby Adamis via the Apply link on this page.
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BI Analyst
Manchester
£40000 - £50000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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BI Analyst
Up to £50,000
Hybrid – Manchester (2x days per week)
THE COMPANY
We are working with a financial service provider.
THE ROLE
In this role, you will deliver impactful reporting and provide strategic insights to support key Property teams, including Product and Sales. You will analyze data across a range of areas-such as customer behavior, broker performance, commercial outcomes, and credit risk-to generate actionable recommendations that enable informed decision-making and drive business performance.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
SQL
Power BI or Tableau (experience with both is advantageous)
Strong Insight generation skills and experience
Experience in a regulated sector, such as insurance, banking, or financial services, is advantageous.
APPLY
Send an email to register your interest or apply below. Please note that my client cannot offer sponsorship.
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BI Analyst
Manchester
£40000 - £50000
+ Risk Analytics
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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Business Intelligence Analyst (Portfolio Analyst)
Location: Hybrid (2x per week in Manchester)
Salary: Up to £50,000
The Company
We’re working with a well-established challenger bank that’s scaling its business intelligence and portfolio analytics team. The organisation operates across savings, mortgages, business banking, and motor finance, with a strong emphasis on tech-driven decision-making. With a leaner structure than traditional high-street banks, this company offers individuals the chance to own projects end-to-end and contribute meaningfully to strategic decisions.
The Role
This is a commercially-focused analytics role sitting within the property team, reporting into the Head of Portfolio Analytics. It’s ideal for a BI Analyst who thrives on working cross-functionally with sales, product, and operations to derive actionable insights and shape strategy. The work directly supports investment and growth initiatives across customer and broker performance, commercial trends, and credit risk.
Key Responsibilities
– Deliver BI reporting and insight across core lending portfolios.
– Partner with product, sales, and risk teams to explore strategic data questions.
– Analyse broker, customer, and product-level performance to surface trends and opportunities.
– Support forward flow investment projects and new lending initiatives.
– Deliver reports in Tableau or Power BI and drive best practice in data visualisation.
Skills & Experience
Essential:
– Strong SQL skills for deep analytical querying and insight generation.
– Data visualisation experience using Power BI or Tableau.
– Previous experience working in financial services or risk-focused environments.
– Ability to turn data into actionable recommendations.
Desirable:
– Experience in credit risk, lending analytics, or broker performance reporting.
– Familiarity with Return on Equity (ROE) and portfolio strategy metrics.
– Background in challenger banking or fast-paced FS environments.
Benefits
– £50,000 base salary
– Flexible hybrid working model (2 days in-office)
– High ownership role within a growing data function
– Be part of an ambitious team shaping BI strategy at group level
How to Apply
Interested? Send your CV to Mohammed Buhariwala at Harnham via the Apply link on this page.
Keywords
Business Intelligence Analyst, BI Analyst, Credit Risk, Lending Analytics, SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Portfolio Analytics, Financial Services, Banking Analytics, Challenger Bank, Strategic Insight
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Data Analyst
Manchester
£45000 - £55000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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Data Analyst
Manchester (Hybrid – 2x Days a Week in Office)
£45,000-£55,000
THE COMPANY
An award-winning Challenger Bank is seeking a Data Analyst to join their Portfolio Analysis team!
THE ROLE
As the Data Analyst, you will use your SQL & Data Viz. experience to generate insight on cross-portfolio performance. You will be comfortable providing insight & recommendations back to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in the process
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Strong experience with Tableau or Power BI
- Good SQL experience
THE BENEFITS
- £45,000-£55,000 (dependent on experience)
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Adam Osborne at Harnham via the Apply link on this page
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Senior Data Engineer
Manchester
£50000 - £65000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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Role: Azure Senior Data Engineer
Location: Manchester, Lancashire
Hybrid working: go into office 1x day a week
Salary: £50,000 – £65,000 (dependent on experience)
Insight into the Company:
A large retail organisation – market leaders in their industry – are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to enter their team. You will be working in a small team of 3 (including you!) and they are looking to build up the team over the next year.
The ideal candidate will have experience with managing data warehouses from start to finish and liaise with IT teams regularly. The role will involve stakeholder management, working with diverse roles, such as software engineers, sales and marketing professionals and more. Therefore, communicating your projects needs and understanding others is an essential part of this role.
Role and Responsibilities:
- You will design, build and upgrade data pipelines
- You will work in CI/CD and with Software/ DevOps teams in the organisation
- You will have expertise in azure – from collecting, to transforming to loading!
Skills and Experience:
- Essential to have experience with:
- Azure
- SQL
- Regular stakeholder management
- Data warehouse management
- Desirable to have experience with:
- Bachelors in STEM subject – ideally computer science or engineering
- CI/CD methods
- Python
Interview Process:
- There are 3 stages to the process:
- Introductory conversation with the Head of Business Insights
- In person interview, focussing on techstacks
- Sign off conversation!
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Firewall Engineer
Manchester
£300 - £400
+ Data Engineering
ContractManchester, Greater Manchester
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Role: Firewall Engineer
Length: 2 months
IR35: Outside IR35
Location: Hybrid – Manchester
This is to support a service provider with an internal project migrating firewalls from Cisco ASA to Firepower.
Key responsibilities:
- Run through the rules and access controls
- Migrate firewalls over or update rules, or access controls to migrate
- Support the Head of Infrastructure to guide them on the necessary changes
Key experience:
- Strong CISCO Firewall knowledge – ASA and Firepower
- Previous experience migrating from ASA to Firepower
- Someone who is independent to be left to deliver the tasks
- CCNA + CCNP a plus
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Data Analyst
Manchester
£30000 - £35000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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Data Analyst
Up to £35,000
Hybrid – Manchester (4x days in the office)
THE COMPANY
Our client, a family-owned retail organization, is seeking to hire a Data Analyst.
THE ROLE
Contribute to the development and optimization of computer vision systems for quality inspection, as well as automation solutions integrated with SCADA, PLCs, and industrial sensors.
Support cross-functional teams by gathering and analyzing manufacturing data, assisting with AI and predictive analytics projects, and helping document system requirements and implementation processes.
Building and maintaining Tableau dashboards for real-time insights and participate in technology trials, validations, and report generation.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Experience with Data Visualisation tools – Power BI, Tableau or similar
Exposure to Python, SQL or similar
A degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Manufacturing, or a related field.
APPLY
Send an email
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Data Quality Analyst
Manchester
£40000 - £45000
+ Data Management & Governance
PermanentManchester, Greater Manchester
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Data Quality Analyst
Remote (1x month in London)
Salary: £45,000
We’re working with a small company who specialise in the investment space. They are looking for a Data Quality Analyst to help ensure that data flowing through the system is complete, clean, and reliable.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end data quality lifecycle, from profiling to documentation
- Write SQL queries to fix issues directly in the data warehouse
- Work with Python to automate data validation and monitoring processes
- Build and run automated reports to ensure ongoing data integrity
- Collaborate with the lead analyst and Head of Data to continuously improve internal data processes
- Work closely with financial and investment datasets to support high-profile users
Skills
- Strong SQL (PostgreSQL preferred) – ability to build and fix complex queries
- Data quality techniques: profiling, cleansing, validation, documentation, monitoring
- Python for scripting and automation
- Experience with financial/investment data
- Comfort working in small, agile teams
Nice-to-Haves
- Exposure to Snowflake
- Interest in private equity or startup ecosystems
- Willingness to specialise long-term in data quality
Interview Process
- Conversation with Lead Analyst
- Technical assessment
- Final interview with the CEO
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