Role: Senior Data Scientist
Location: Manchester, UK / Leeds, UK
Role Overview
As the client analytics team evolves, we are looking to onboard commercially savvy, independent Data Scientists to support and accelerate a predefined analytics backlog. The role requires strong technical capability, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate autonomously while driving measurable business impact.-defined analytics backlog. The role requires strong technical capability, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate autonomously while driving measurable business impact.
The Analyst/Data Scientist will design and deliver analytical solutions that help grow wallet share, increase market share, and improve customer engagement. They will also lead the creation of self-serve reporting and dashboards that enable stakeholders to track performance and key drivers.-serve reporting and dashboards that enable stakeholders to track performance and key drivers.


Key Responsibilities
*Develop insights and recommendations to increase wallet spend across key customer segments.
*Design and deliver initiatives aimed at growing market share, including tracking performance and conducting root cause analysis.-cause analysis.
*Build a self-serve dashboard to monitor market share, performance KPIs, and related contributing factors.-serve dashboard
*Own end to end delivery of analysis with minimal oversight—problem structuring, data extraction, modelling, and presentation.-to-end delivery of analysis with minimal oversight—problem structuring, data extraction, modelling, and presentation.
*Conduct data mining, manipulation, and validation using robust reconciliation practices.
*Identify and select relevant data points required for accurate and meaningful analysis.
*Build customer segmentations/profiles to inform commercial strategies and product decisions.
*Perform conversion and funnel analysis to understand customer behaviour and optimize interventions.
*Create business ready visualizations and structured reporting for senior stakeholders.-ready visualisations and structured reporting for senior stakeholders.
*Automate repetitive tasks, streamline data workflows, and improve analytical efficiency.
*Design and evaluate marketing campaign structures—targeting, proposition, test design, measurement based on statistical significance.
*Present insights confidently and manage stakeholder expectations through clear, proactive communication.
*Deliver high quality outputs at pace with minimal rework.-quality outputs at pace with minimal rework.


Skills & Experience Required
Technical & Analytical Skills
*Strong data mining, wrangling, and manipulation experience (SQL, Python, or equivalent).
*High competence in validation checks, reconciliations, and data quality assurance.
*Advanced data visualization capability (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
*Experience building dashboards and business reporting tools.
*Familiarity with optimization and automation techniques in analytics workflows.


Commercial & Domain Experience
*Debit payments or current account experience within UK Financial Services (desired).
*Understanding of banking profitability, product economics, and business case modelling.
*Background in customer profiling, segmentation, and behavioral analytics.
*Experience designing and evaluating commercial or marketing campaigns.
*Strong understanding of conversion metrics and commercial performance levers.


Behavioral Competencies
*Highly independent and proactive, able to manage workload and prioritization autonomously.
*Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence stakeholders.
*Delivers consistently to a high standard with minimal rework.
*Comfortable working in a fast paced, outcomes driven environment.-paced, outcomes-driven environment.