Senior Data Analyst

Project overview

Senior Data Analyst - Breaks & Reconciliations

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Project details

London or Sheffield

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?? Contract: 6 months, with potential for extension

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Analyst to join a major Financial Services transformation programme, focused on improving and automating reconciliation processes.

The successful candidate will combine strong data analysis and SQL skills with hands-on experience investigating reconciliation breaks, exceptions and root causes. You'll work closely with Operations, Finance, Risk and Technology teams to identify recurring issues and help define requirements for a future-state automated reconciliation solution.

Key Responsibilities

Essential Experience

Desirable

Job Title: Senior Data Analyst

London, UK

Job Type: Contract

Trading as TEKsystems. Allegis Group Limited, Bracknell, RG12 1RT, United Kingdom. No. 2876353. Allegis Group Limited operates as an Employment Business and Employment Agency as set out in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. TEKsystems is a company within the Allegis Group network of companies (collectively referred to as "Allegis Group"). Aerotek, Aston Carter, EASi, Talentis Solutions, TEKsystems, Stamford Consultants and The Stamford Group are Allegis Group brands.

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• Analyse reconciliation breaks and operational exceptions
• Conduct root-cause analysis to identify recurring issues and control failures
• Analyse high-volume transactional and operational datasets
• Identify trends, anomalies and break patterns
• Perform data profiling and data quality analysis
• Define business and data requirements for reconciliation automation
• Develop recommendations to reduce manual reconciliation activity
• Work closely with Operations, Finance, Risk, Product, Engineering and Technology teams
• Strong Financial Services/Banking background
• Hands-on breaks and reconciliations experience
• Strong SQL and data analysis skills
• experience conducting root-cause analysis of operational exceptions
• experience working with complex data environments
• Strong business analysis and requirements gathering capability
• Payments operations experience
• Knowledge of settlements, transaction processing or cash management
• experience with reconciliation platforms and control frameworks
• Exposure to automation or data transformation programmes
• Advanced Excel
• Power BI, Tableau or similar visualisation tools
• Start: 2026-10-21
• Location: London, GB-ENG, UK, GB