At a Glance
- Tasks: Support experienced analysts on exciting data projects and develop insights into credit risk management.
- Company: Join Jaywing, a dynamic data-driven consultancy with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, 25 days holiday, hybrid working, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible working environment with strong career growth potential.
- Why this job: Gain hands-on experience in data science while making a real impact for top clients.
- Qualifications: Ideal for postgraduate students in Maths, Economics, Data Science, or related fields.
The predicted salary is between 20000 - 30000 £ per year.
Postgraduate student year placement as part of your degree (10 to 12-month temporary role).
Salary: Competitive
Location: Hybrid working: mostly based from home and 1 day per week at our Leeds office.
Placement Duration: To start August/September 2026 and run until Summer 2027.
About Jaywing: Founded in 1999, and now part of Stubben Edge Group, Jaywing’s heritage is in data science, predictive modelling and analytics that support both our risk and marketing clients. We collate, manage and analyse huge volumes of data to help businesses better understand their customers, optimise their lending strategies, and make the most of their marketing budgets. A large part of our work is in the support of bad debt (IFRS9) and capital (IRB) modelling and management. Our Consulting team have many clients ranging from retail finance houses such as Frasers, to big banks like TSB, start-up lenders like Starling, and public sector organisations. We are seeing increased demand from our clients for our services, and this has created a vacancy for 2 postgrad placement year Junior Analysts. One role will focus on predictive modelling and analytics; the second would be more suited to candidates with a finance background and will cover IFRS9 and IRB concepts.
Jaywing has a unique working culture with a variety of projects that will keep you stimulated and give you experience of what it’s like to work for a data-driven consultancy. We put people at the heart of our business, an ethos that means our consultants stay with us for many years.
Role Purpose: The successful candidates will initially be allocated to support more experienced analysts and consultants on a large project for one of our clients. By the end of the placement, you can hope to leave with:
- A strong understanding of how to handle data and produce insight related to measuring credit risk.
- An introduction to how lenders manage credit risk, including credit scoring modelling techniques, IFRS9 and bad debt modelling, IRB and Capital requirements.
- An ability to work independently to produce and communicate meaningful data-driven insights and recommendations to a variety of stakeholders.
- More confidence in presenting your results to internal teams and potentially to clients (with support).
- The ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with colleagues.
- Skills necessary to support wider teams and collaborate on multi-disciplinary projects.
Skills Required: Studying a relevant Masters/postgraduate degree such as Mathematics and/or Statistics, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science, Big Data Analytics, Data analytics with Finance. Typical requests may include writing some code to extract data, summarising the results, and writing commentary on your findings. You may also work on longer-term projects such as supporting a model development/review. At all times you will be provided with appropriate support from project leads and colleagues. We are professional without unnecessary formality, and both our people and clients welcome and enjoy this refreshing approach.
More Information: Jaywing employees are entitled to 25 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays) annually. Our contracted hours are 35 per week.
