Senior Manager, Independent Model Validation The organisation Our client is a UK based financial services provider with a strong focus on responsible growth and long term customer relationships. They offer specialist products to retail and business customers and are investing heavily in data, modelling, and risk capabilities. This role sits within a central model risk function, providing independent challenge to models used across the business. The role As Senior Manager for Independent Model Validation, you will: Lead independent review and challenge of models, including Methodology and theoretical soundness Regulatory alignment Data quality, monitoring, and performance Implementation, documentation, and model use Shape and maintain the model validation framework, policies, and standards. Work closely with model developers, owners, and users on model changes, performance issues, and remediation. Produce clear written reports and present findings at internal committees and forums. Support and coach more junior team members, helping to build a strong model risk culture. What we are looking for Highly numerate, with strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills. Experience in model development or validation within financial services, for example credit risk, capital, provisioning, or stress testing. Good knowledge of relevant regulations and guidance, for example IRB, IFRS 9, model risk management, and emerging expectations around AI and ML models. Practical coding skills for model development, testing, and implementation. Able to work independently while contributing to a collaborative team environment. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK. Working pattern and benefits Full time role, with a hybrid working pattern that blends office and home working. Competitive salary with a market aligned benefits package, including pension, annual bonus, and a range of flexible benefits to support wellbeing and work life balance. Strong emphasis on professional development, with support for training, qualifications, and internal mobility.
Dec 04, 2025
Full time
Senior Manager, Independent Model Validation The organisation Our client is a UK based financial services provider with a strong focus on responsible growth and long term customer relationships. They offer specialist products to retail and business customers and are investing heavily in data, modelling, and risk capabilities. This role sits within a central model risk function, providing independent challenge to models used across the business. The role As Senior Manager for Independent Model Validation, you will: Lead independent review and challenge of models, including Methodology and theoretical soundness Regulatory alignment Data quality, monitoring, and performance Implementation, documentation, and model use Shape and maintain the model validation framework, policies, and standards. Work closely with model developers, owners, and users on model changes, performance issues, and remediation. Produce clear written reports and present findings at internal committees and forums. Support and coach more junior team members, helping to build a strong model risk culture. What we are looking for Highly numerate, with strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills. Experience in model development or validation within financial services, for example credit risk, capital, provisioning, or stress testing. Good knowledge of relevant regulations and guidance, for example IRB, IFRS 9, model risk management, and emerging expectations around AI and ML models. Practical coding skills for model development, testing, and implementation. Able to work independently while contributing to a collaborative team environment. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK. Working pattern and benefits Full time role, with a hybrid working pattern that blends office and home working. Competitive salary with a market aligned benefits package, including pension, annual bonus, and a range of flexible benefits to support wellbeing and work life balance. Strong emphasis on professional development, with support for training, qualifications, and internal mobility.
Analytics Engineer - DBT & SQL Location: London - Hybrid (3 days/week central London office) Salary: 40,000 depending on experience Ref: J13038 Please note sponsorship is not available now or in the future. An exciting opportunity has opened up at one of the UK's fastest-growing independent media agencies. An Analytics Engineer is needed to help shape the future of data in a business where performance, innovation, and impact come together. You'll sit at the heart of the Marketing Intelligence team, transforming complex data into clean, trusted, and highly usable products that inform real-time marketing strategies for some of the UK's most recognisable brands. This is a role for someone who doesn't just write SQL, but builds scalable, structured models that empower analysts, marketers, and data scientists to move faster and smarter, all while contributing to a Data for Good ethos that drives meaningful, measurable outcomes. Build and maintain robust data models in DBT, transforming raw data into high-quality, trusted sources for analytics and activation. Manage onboarding of new data feeds from discovery to documentation, collaborating with both technical and business stakeholders. Champion data quality, creating tests and alerts to ensure confidence and consistency in our outputs. Work closely with senior leaders across data and marketing to align models with business objectives. Contribute to and evolve our Python tooling, adapting scripts and automations to support the wider data platform. Collaborate with teams across analytics, data science, and visualisation to make sure data is accessible, meaningful, and impactful. Take ownership of projects from design through to deployment, following agile best practices. You're a curious, proactive problem-solver who's passionate about clean, well-documented data. You care about data quality, team collaboration, and making a measurable difference in how data is used across a business. Must-Have Skills: SQL - Confident in writing clean, performant queries; understands ANSI SQL principles. dbt - Experienced with building, testing, and documenting models in production environments. Python - Comfortable using and editing existing scripts; familiar with core concepts. Git - Solid understanding of version control and team-based workflows. Strong communicator - Able to translate technical topics for non-technical audiences. Team player - Collaborative, curious, and happy to work in a self-organising, fast-paced environment. Nice-to-Have Skills: Experience with GCP/BigQuery or other cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift). Familiarity with data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow). Experience with data visualisation platforms (such as Preset.io/Apache Superset or other). Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitLab CI. Background working with media, marketing, or advertising data. The Opportunity: Work alongside smart, supportive teammates who genuinely care about data, performance, and growth. Play a key role in a business that's investing in its data capabilities for the long term. Huge emphasis on training and development Contribute to an evolving data platform and a top 1% dbt codebase that sets standards others aspire to. Be part of a company with a strong Data for Good ethos, where your work helps drive real-world results with purpose. If you're ready to develop up your analytics career, working with top-tier tools and a brilliant team, we want to hear from you. Alternatively, you can refer a friend or colleague by taking part in our fantastic referral schemes! If you have a friend or colleague who would be interested in this role, please refer them to us. For each relevant candidate that you introduce to us (there is no limit) and we place, you will be entitled to our general gift/voucher scheme. Datatech is one of the UK's leading recruitment agencies in the field of analytics and host of the critically acclaimed event, Women in Data. For more information, visit our website: (url removed)
Dec 03, 2025
Full time
Analytics Engineer - DBT & SQL Location: London - Hybrid (3 days/week central London office) Salary: 40,000 depending on experience Ref: J13038 Please note sponsorship is not available now or in the future. An exciting opportunity has opened up at one of the UK's fastest-growing independent media agencies. An Analytics Engineer is needed to help shape the future of data in a business where performance, innovation, and impact come together. You'll sit at the heart of the Marketing Intelligence team, transforming complex data into clean, trusted, and highly usable products that inform real-time marketing strategies for some of the UK's most recognisable brands. This is a role for someone who doesn't just write SQL, but builds scalable, structured models that empower analysts, marketers, and data scientists to move faster and smarter, all while contributing to a Data for Good ethos that drives meaningful, measurable outcomes. Build and maintain robust data models in DBT, transforming raw data into high-quality, trusted sources for analytics and activation. Manage onboarding of new data feeds from discovery to documentation, collaborating with both technical and business stakeholders. Champion data quality, creating tests and alerts to ensure confidence and consistency in our outputs. Work closely with senior leaders across data and marketing to align models with business objectives. Contribute to and evolve our Python tooling, adapting scripts and automations to support the wider data platform. Collaborate with teams across analytics, data science, and visualisation to make sure data is accessible, meaningful, and impactful. Take ownership of projects from design through to deployment, following agile best practices. You're a curious, proactive problem-solver who's passionate about clean, well-documented data. You care about data quality, team collaboration, and making a measurable difference in how data is used across a business. Must-Have Skills: SQL - Confident in writing clean, performant queries; understands ANSI SQL principles. dbt - Experienced with building, testing, and documenting models in production environments. Python - Comfortable using and editing existing scripts; familiar with core concepts. Git - Solid understanding of version control and team-based workflows. Strong communicator - Able to translate technical topics for non-technical audiences. Team player - Collaborative, curious, and happy to work in a self-organising, fast-paced environment. Nice-to-Have Skills: Experience with GCP/BigQuery or other cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift). Familiarity with data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow). Experience with data visualisation platforms (such as Preset.io/Apache Superset or other). Exposure to CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitLab CI. Background working with media, marketing, or advertising data. The Opportunity: Work alongside smart, supportive teammates who genuinely care about data, performance, and growth. Play a key role in a business that's investing in its data capabilities for the long term. Huge emphasis on training and development Contribute to an evolving data platform and a top 1% dbt codebase that sets standards others aspire to. Be part of a company with a strong Data for Good ethos, where your work helps drive real-world results with purpose. If you're ready to develop up your analytics career, working with top-tier tools and a brilliant team, we want to hear from you. Alternatively, you can refer a friend or colleague by taking part in our fantastic referral schemes! If you have a friend or colleague who would be interested in this role, please refer them to us. For each relevant candidate that you introduce to us (there is no limit) and we place, you will be entitled to our general gift/voucher scheme. Datatech is one of the UK's leading recruitment agencies in the field of analytics and host of the critically acclaimed event, Women in Data. For more information, visit our website: (url removed)
Senior Analyst - ECM Hybrid London Office 60 - 70 K Depending on Experience + Bonus + Benefits About the Company We're talking about a forward-thinking consumer finance business, delivering products that genuinely put customers in control. Innovative. Ethical. Customer first. No jargon. No unnecessary complexity. Just fair, transparent lending and smart, data led decision making. If you like the sound of shaping strategies that make a real difference. Read On. The Role We're looking for a commercially minded Senior Analyst to join a collaborative analytics team, working at the heart of customer engagement and portfolio performance. The opportunity sits within an Existing Customer Management' analytics environment. This is a hands-on, data-driven role where you'll shape strategies that deepen customer relationships, improve profitability, and reduce losses, all while keeping customer outcomes front and centre. Expectations Lead on credit, pricing, and marketing strategies that drive engagement and reduce losses. Work daily with SQL, Python/R, Tableau, and Alteryx to turn raw data into actionable insight. Take a test and learn' approach, challenging the status quo to find better outcomes. Translate portfolio trends into strategies that shape customer journeys. Collaborate with stakeholders across product, finance, and operations to deliver measurable impact. About You You're not just about the numbers, you know how to use them to tell a story and influence change. You're confident in keeping communication sharp and to the point, while still being respectful, helping save time and keep things running smoothly for everyone You thrive in fast-paced environments, balance detail with big picture thinking, and love seeing your work deliver tangible results What You'll Bring Degree in Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Business, or similar. 3+ years in analytics, with lending or risk experience,credit card background is a big plus. Strong SQL skills, plus confidence with Python/R, Tableau, or Alteryx. Credit Card industry experience A proactive mindset and the ability to juggle priorities without dropping the ball. Bonus Points For MySQL, AWS, or other big-data platform experience. Proven track record in consumer finance strategy. Experience linking analytics to commercial decisions. What's on Offer Competitive salary, annual bonus, and regular pay reviews. Hybrid working with London office presence. Great benefits package: pension, private medical, life cover, enhanced leave, and more. This is your chance to join a growing, purpose driven business, and to see your work make a direct impact on customers. APPLY NOW
Oct 08, 2025
Full time
Senior Analyst - ECM Hybrid London Office 60 - 70 K Depending on Experience + Bonus + Benefits About the Company We're talking about a forward-thinking consumer finance business, delivering products that genuinely put customers in control. Innovative. Ethical. Customer first. No jargon. No unnecessary complexity. Just fair, transparent lending and smart, data led decision making. If you like the sound of shaping strategies that make a real difference. Read On. The Role We're looking for a commercially minded Senior Analyst to join a collaborative analytics team, working at the heart of customer engagement and portfolio performance. The opportunity sits within an Existing Customer Management' analytics environment. This is a hands-on, data-driven role where you'll shape strategies that deepen customer relationships, improve profitability, and reduce losses, all while keeping customer outcomes front and centre. Expectations Lead on credit, pricing, and marketing strategies that drive engagement and reduce losses. Work daily with SQL, Python/R, Tableau, and Alteryx to turn raw data into actionable insight. Take a test and learn' approach, challenging the status quo to find better outcomes. Translate portfolio trends into strategies that shape customer journeys. Collaborate with stakeholders across product, finance, and operations to deliver measurable impact. About You You're not just about the numbers, you know how to use them to tell a story and influence change. You're confident in keeping communication sharp and to the point, while still being respectful, helping save time and keep things running smoothly for everyone You thrive in fast-paced environments, balance detail with big picture thinking, and love seeing your work deliver tangible results What You'll Bring Degree in Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Business, or similar. 3+ years in analytics, with lending or risk experience,credit card background is a big plus. Strong SQL skills, plus confidence with Python/R, Tableau, or Alteryx. Credit Card industry experience A proactive mindset and the ability to juggle priorities without dropping the ball. Bonus Points For MySQL, AWS, or other big-data platform experience. Proven track record in consumer finance strategy. Experience linking analytics to commercial decisions. What's on Offer Competitive salary, annual bonus, and regular pay reviews. Hybrid working with London office presence. Great benefits package: pension, private medical, life cover, enhanced leave, and more. This is your chance to join a growing, purpose driven business, and to see your work make a direct impact on customers. APPLY NOW