Associate Data Scientist (Wholesale Financial Mark...

Opportunity Overview: We are currently supporting the UK's financial regulator to recruit for an Associate Data Scientist. The role will sit in a team at the very heart of wholesale financial markets. You will assist in building and designing a comprehensive suite of market monitoring and risk analysis tools to supervise market trends and identify potential risks.

Key responsibilities include

• Working closely with the other analysts on the team, delivering analytics in collaboration with stakeholders across the directorates.
• Assisting in building and designing a comprehensive suite of market monitoring and risk analysis tools to supervise market trends and identify potential risks.
• Creating dashboard visualisations (Tableau) or data applications (streamlit/dash) to enable colleagues across the division to interact with them.

The ideal candidate would have

• Strong Python programming skills, as evidenced by previous experience in a relevant field.
• Proven experience of cleaning, transforming, and analysing large-scale data sets (ideally, but not necessarily, financial data sets)
• Genuine interest for wholesale financial markets
• Experience with core Python libraries (Pandas, NumPy, Statsmodels, Scikit-learn)
• Experience working with financial data.
• SQL experience (ideally PostgreSQL)
• Exposure to cloud computing (AWS preferred, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with data visualisation tools (Tableau, QlikView, Spotfire, Power BI etc.)

Interested candidates should apply at the earliest.