Strategy Analytics - Senior Associate in Edinburgh

Join the Strategy Analytics Team to drive data governance, insights and change across platforms powering global data distribution. As a Senior Associate in the International Private Bank Strategy Analytics Team, you'll play a key role in ensuring critical data reaches the right consumers across the International Private Bank. You'll be responsible for driving governance, data analysis, and strategic change initiatives that support the platforms and products underpinning the firm's data distribution capabilities.

Working across business, operations, and technology teams, you'll help shape priorities, manage complex data requests, deliver analytical insights, and lead initiatives that improve the quality, efficiency, and scalability of our services. You'll combine strong analytical skills with stakeholder management and project delivery capabilities to drive meaningful outcomes in a fast-paced environment. You will be exposed to data management, platform governance, change delivery, and emerging technologies, providing an excellent opportunity to develop both technical expertise and leadership capabilities.

Job Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to understand business requirements, define solutions, and translate complex needs into clear requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Analyse datasets, identify trends, and provide actionable insights that support strategic decision-making and platform optimisation.
• Lead the delivery of small-to-medium sized change initiatives, coordinating activities across multiple teams and ensuring successful execution.
• Drive the resolution of data issues and complex requests through structured analysis, stakeholder engagement, and effective prioritisation.
• Develop and maintain management information, key performance indicators, and reporting that provide transparency into platform performance, risk management, and delivery progress.
• Act as a key relationship manager for business, operations, technology, and governance stakeholders, building trust and influencing decisions to achieve successful delivery outcomes.
• Lead workstreams supporting the evolution of the International Private Bank's strategic data distribution platform, driving initiatives that improve data accessibility, governance, operational controls, and scalability.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define priorities, influence outcomes, and deliver measurable improvements to the platform and its operating model.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, automate manual activities, and improve operational efficiency through data, technology, and AI-driven solutions.
• Leverage AI tools to improve analysis, enhance decision-making, increase productivity, and unlock new opportunities across the team's processes and operating model.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by challenging existing processes, encouraging innovative thinking, and driving practical solutions to business problems.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Proven analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to work with large and complex datasets.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes within tight deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a team environment.
• Proactive mindset with a strong sense of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Strong organisational, planning, and project management skills.
• Confidence challenging existing processes and influencing change through data-driven recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience applying AI tools to automate processes, improve analytical capabilities, or drive operational efficiencies.
• Experience with Python, SQL, Tableau, Alteryx, Power BI, or similar analytical and automation tools.
• Understanding of project delivery methodologies, including Agile practices and collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
• Knowledge of data management, data governance, data virtualisation technologies (e.g. Denodo), or data distribution concepts.
• Experience delivering business or technology change initiatives within financial services or a similarly complex environment.
• Exposure to platform governance, operating model design, process optimisation, risk management, or control frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders, drive consensus, and deliver outcomes across multiple teams.

The Strategy Analytics team sits at the centre of a number of strategic data and platform initiatives within the International Private Bank. This role provides the opportunity to work across business, operations, and technology organisations while gaining exposure to data governance, platform modernisation, AI-enabled transformation, and large-scale change delivery. You will have the opportunity to own meaningful workstreams, influence decisions, and help shape the future of how data is managed, governed, and distributed across the organisation while building a broad and highly transferable skill set.