At a Glance
- Tasks: Analyse data to provide insights and recommendations for business performance.
- Company: Join a leading financial services firm with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Flexible remote work, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative team environment with excellent career advancement potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by driving strategic decisions through data analytics.
- Qualifications: Degree in a numerate discipline and experience with SQL, Python, and Tableau.
The predicted salary is between 45000 - 55000 £ per year.
Join us as an Analytical Consultant. This role would suit someone with a background in explaining business performance and recommending management actions through expert use of data analytics in a client facing role. This is a valuable opportunity to help deliver crucial business advice within our franchise-wide team.
We’ll look to you to develop processes that enable the distribution and understanding of insights into the wider bank. You’ll be supporting the business by using insights to drive effective decision making, giving you excellent recognition and the chance to raise your profile.
What you'll do:
- This key role will see you helping to build and deliver analytics and insights for the franchise by creating and leveraging all financial and business performance including balance sheet and profit and loss (P&L).
- You’ll be developing and maintaining effective statistical profitability models and associated analytics, while providing actionable management information (MI) on all aspects of model performance.
- Providing insight through analysis and communicating this effectively to your stakeholders.
- Identifying opportunities as they arise for business strategy improvement through a range of levers such as product, propositional, target operating model, and pricing.
- Identifying opportunities for improvement, both in terms of the analysis being produced, and the approaches and processes used within the team.
- Working with the team manager and other managers to maximise team performance and effectiveness, sharing your technical expertise to improve team capability.
The skills you'll need:
- We’re looking for a keen problem solver who’s qualified to degree level in a numerate discipline and has data driven analysis and consulting skills.
- Along with extensive banking or financial services experience, you’ll have knowledge of key analytical and visualisation software.
- You’ll need consultancy skills, but a consultancy background is not essential.
- You’ll also need experience in analytical and data science including SQL, Python, and Tableau or an equivalent.
- An understanding of stakeholder products, propositions, customers, customer journeys, markets, and competitors.
- Broad experience of risk and finance systems, methodologies, and processes in a retail or wholesale banking environment.
- An understanding of the regulatory regime and risk management and control processes applicable to businesses within the financial services industry.
Hours: 35
Job Posting Closing Date: 17/09/2026
Ways of Working: Remote First
Location: London; Edinburgh
Type: Full time
Analytical Consultant in Edinburgh employer: NatWest Group
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