Senior Data Science Analyst - Audit - Edinburgh

Are you passionate about data science and intrigued about a career in audit?

W&A is working with an established retail banking group to help source a Senior Data Science Analyst to join their collaborative audit team in Edinburgh.

The role holder will apply data science and analytics techniques to support delivery of our clients audit plan, providing insights, and driving innovation.

This is a hands-on and multifaceted role within a skilled and supportive central team of data analysts, scientists, and engineers who are highly visible to senior management, with exposure to the entire group.

Role Profile:

• Work in collaboration with business audit teams, delivering advanced analytics to provide insights and independent assurance on the effectiveness of controls, highlighting control deficiencies
• Help the department to excel by promoting innovation and upskilling colleagues in data analytics
• Establish relationships with business audit teams to facilitate the delivery of analytics, as well as helping colleagues performing analytics
• Promote the use of analytics by contributing to department-wide presentations and identifying opportunities to innovate. Your work will also help the wider group to become more data-driven
• Contribute to data science and analytics development projects
• Develop your knowledge of the group's strategy, products & markets and be responsible for your own professional development

Essential Skills & Experience:

• You have experience delivering data analytics to support audits. Alternatively, you are experienced at using data analytics in a non-audit role and have a proven grasp of audit or risk
• You're able to understand business processes and deal with ambiguity to ensure you deliver insights and assurance work that makes a difference
• You have knowledge of databases and data warehouses concepts, understand core data analytics and visualisation principles
• You are proficient in SQL and have a good knowledge of Python both used in a work context
• Ability & previous experience presenting technical topics and complex analysis to a non-technical audience

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Financial services, audit or risk experience
• Prior experience of PowerBI, Google Cloud and data sciences concepts are an advantage, especially in the fields of machine learning and natural language processing

This role will operate on hybrid basis with two days required in the office.