Senior Data Analyst – Portfolio Management Unit, Belfast/London

Role: Senior Data Analyst – Portfolio Management Unit, AIB UK.

Location: London / Belfast (Hybrid, 2 days in office)

This role is being offered on a full-time basis.

• Are you interested in using your SQL and analytical skills to enhance credit portfolio reporting and insights?
• Are problem-solving and developing robust processes strengths of yours?
• Can you work with a wide range of stakeholders to enhance data quality, completeness, and governance?

About the Role:

The UK Portfolio Management Unit supports the AIB UK business strategy by providing timely analysis and MI related to the credit portfolio. 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.

Successful candidates will demonstrate a desire and ability to design and deliver responses to data analysis requests from internal and external stakeholders, to refine existing and design new reporting processes, and to work closely with a number of other AIB UK and AIB Group functions (both technical and non-technical) on the longer-term enhancement of data quality and completeness. 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.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Interpreting complex data analysis requirements and leveraging the data warehouse to identify and build appropriate solutions
• Enhancing the automation, efficiency, and control environment around existing regular reports
• 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)
• Communicating analytical findings to senior stakeholders effectively in both written and verbal form
• Taking a lead role in defining data requirements and driving data definition, extraction, and transformation logic 
• Establishing collaborative relationships across UK and ROI functions to develop and deliver on data/reporting solutions

What you will bring:

• Strong demonstrable knowledge of SQL databases (automation, report generation, root cause analysis, writing complex queries)
• Demonstrable experience using statistical packages (SAS, Teradata, Excel etc.) to analyse complex datasets, draw conclusions, and present insights/findings
• 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
• Education: Relevant Degree or Postgraduate qualification in a numerical discipline (e.g. Data Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Information Management etc.) and/or 3+ years applied experience (preferably in a Banking/Finance setting)

Life at AIB

At AIB, we have a clear purpose – to back our customers to achieve their dreams and ambitions. We want to be at the heart of our customers’ financial lives by giving them an exceptional experience. That goes for our employees too.

We are building a culture that breaks the conventions of what our customer and employees expect of a bank.

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live.  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.  More details on our hybrid working arrangements and expected office attendance for your role will be provided to you during the recruitment process.

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 celebrate diversity and believe in a culture of inclusion where all our employees can succeed. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities. 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 [email protected].

If you feel you have what it takes, click apply and fill in the online application form. If you would like more information please contact the Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected]

By when?  Closing date Friday 5th April 2024

Disclaimer:

Unsolicited CV’s sent to AIB by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.