Senior Data Analyst - Portfolio Management Unit, London/Belfast

Allied Irish Banks
London
1 month ago
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Location/Office Policy: London/Belfast with 2 days in-office per week.

  • Do you want to use data insight to drive better business decisions?
  • Are you comfortable presenting ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders?
  • Are you looking for a hands-on role with a focus on problem solving and presentation?

What is the Role:

The UK Portfolio Management Unit supports the AIB UK business strategy by providing timely analysis and MI related to the credit portfolio and driving forward-looking analysis and insight. This is a key role that supports this work and involves extracting, analysing, and reporting portfolio data; communicating findings of analysis in written and verbal form; and working across the business to enhance data quality and completeness and ensure effective data governance.

This is a hands-on role that requires attention to detail and self-motivation, and will provide practical experience within our small team to a range of credit risk and strategic concepts. The role will give opportunities to work on high profile projects within the Bank and exposure to senior committees and stakeholders.

Key accountabilities:

  • Interpreting complex data analysis requirements and leveraging the data warehouse or dashboards to identify and build appropriate solutions
  • Communicating analytical findings to senior stakeholders effectively in both written and verbal form
  • Analysing and interpreting credit portfolio data and external data, supporting a range of asset quality and performance monitoring activities (for example, to support ongoing enhancement of Early Warning Indicators)
  • Establishing collaborative relationships across UK and ROI functions to develop and deliver on reporting solutions
  • Enhancing the automation, efficiency, and control environment around existing regular reports

What you Will Bring:

  • Strong demonstrable ability to craft a story around data and contribute content towards senior committees and board/regulatory papers.
  • Strong communication (both written and verbal) and stakeholder management skills, including an ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences to deliver high quality and well-controlled reporting solutions
  • Familiarity with lending / credit risk principles and concepts
  • Strong demonstrable experience of manipulating data to draw insights by using various tools (Excel, Qlikview, Tableau, etc.) to analyse complex datasets, draw conclusions, and present insights/findings/solutions
  • Knowledge of SQL/SAS/databases (automation, report generation, root cause analysis, writing complex queries) is advantageous
  • Education: Relevant Degree or Postgraduate qualification in a financial or numerical discipline (e.g. Economics, Finance, Data Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics etc.) and/or 3+ years applied experience (preferably in a Banking/Finance setting)

Why Work for AIB:

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.

Some of our benefits include:

  • Variable Pay
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Family leave options

Key Capabilities:

  • Customer First
  • Ensures Accountability
  • Customer Communication
  • Data Insight

If you are not sure about your suitability based on any aspects of the role advertised, we encourage you to please contact the Recruiter for this role, Aoife Donoghue, at for a conversation.

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at .

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