Data & Analytics - Senior Associate

Job Description

A career within Risk Data and Analytics services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients develop a strategic and sustainable approach to harness the value of their data and drive business results. We work with organisations across industriesto develop customised, cost effective technology solutions that focus on delivering the relevant, actionable intelligence that executives need to understand operations and manage critical risks.If you are a Data Analytics savvy professional with experiencein Financial Services focused on Asset Management or Wealth management this will be an excellent opportunity for you to join a successful team at a time of growth.PwC is strengthening our data and analytics capabilities in Financial Services as our clientsface significant shifts in the regulatory environment. A core component of the regulatory agenda is leveraging data assets to better manage the constantly shifting and demanding regulatory requirements. The use and governance of data is becoming more and moreimportant to our clients.To meet this growing demand, we are significantly investing in our Data & Analytics practice globally in Financial Services using the latest tools and technologies to help companies make better decisions and get faster results throughthe use of strategic design, operating model change, analytics, and tools.Our team focuses on helping Asset and Wealth Management clients leverage their data assets to better support their clients, understand their business, deliver on their regulatory requirementsand become more efficient. We are currently looking for experienced senior associates, managers and senior managers to join our well established, dynamic team in the Asset and Wealth Management business. We have ambitious plans and are looking for individualswho can develop and build our go-to-market propositions and excel in client delivery.About Our TeamPwC work with some of the largest UK and International Asset and Wealth management organisations. As the business and regulatory environment becomes more complex,these organisations are collecting and using more data than ever before. This introduces new and on-going challenges as they try to maximize the value of, and effectively use, this data.The Data and Analytics team works with clients through improved insightfrom Artificial Intelligence and advanced analytics / data visualisation, and by establishing the right controls, processes and structures to ensure that decisions are based on accurate information. In addition, we assure that information and data providedto regulators and third parties is accurate, complete and trustworthy. What makes PwC stand out is our ability to combine data analytics and assurance with our offerings in regulatory compliance, technology assurance and risk management, to offer truly innovativeservices and solutions to our client.About the roleOur vision for Data and Analytics aligns with our Firms goal of being a pre-eminent management consulting firm. As trusted advisors to senior level executives, we seek to assist them in maximising value fromtheir data assets to reduce risk, improve efficiency, ensure compliance and identify and develop new business opportunities.We support our clients with a range of services:Developing and implementing information led data transformation programmesCreating InnovationHubs for clients - changing the way they thinkDesigning and developing dashboards, visualisations and metrics to improve understanding of business processes, identify potential weaknesses and provide operational resilienceDeveloping data analytics routinesto test detection scenarioDesigning automated and data-driven controls to better manage and protect data assetsValidating and testing data and reports submitted to regulatory bodiesAssessing and optimizing data governance processes and operationsYour MainResponsibilities:Managing projects including project delivery, budget and riskActively contributing on client-facing project work, being self-starting and motivated to produce the required high standard of deliverablesDeveloping and owning PwC propositionsand delivery methodologiesBuilding and maintaining relationships both internally within the PwC network and externally with clientsSupporting sales through work on bids, proposal responses and developing opportunitiesAbout YouIn order to be successful youwill ideally need to show ability in the following areas but if you believe you are particularly strong in any one of these and feel you want to learn some of the others we would also like to hear from you:Experience of the UK Financial Services industry -ideally in Asset and Wealth ManagementUnderstanding relevant Financial Services regulation (e.g. ESG, MIFID, EMIR, AML, Dodd-Frank, FATCA, and Solvency)Understanding of the Business Value ChainExperience in building Artificial Intelligence and Machine learningmodels e.g. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Generation (NLG), Deep Learning (Voice and Image recognition), Geospatial Prediction, Multi-layer Perceptron and other Neural Networks.Artificial Intelligence / Voice Technology experience e.g.IBM Watson, Amazon Echo, Google Home, Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri.Experience in multiple tools/language/frameworks within the Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, MongoDB, Neo4j, Hbase, Cassandra)Understanding of Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Platforms (e.g.Azure / IBM / Google)Advanced data analytics, building models in Python, R, SAS programming languages and librariesData analytics and visualisation products such as D3, Power BI, Qlikview, TableauStrong SQL and data manipulation skillsData quality and datacleansing techniquesUnderstanding of the principles of data governanceYou will also need to have:Track record of managing data project delivery and project teams including ability to meet deadlines, overcome challenges, manage stakeholder expectations andproduce project deliverablesAbility to develop new ideas into structured, deliverable proposals and projectsAbility to identify and address client needs, develop and maintain meaningful client relationshipsStrong analytical and problem solving capabilitiesStrongstakeholder management and interpersonal skillsExcellent presentation and report writing skillsDesirable Skills:Understanding of statistical analytics methods and the ability to apply these in the appropriate circumstancesData modelling and/or data architectureexperienceKnowledge of database, Snowflake, Data Vault and more traditional ETL technologiesExperience of business analysis tasks and approachesDesirable qualificationsA technical background in Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Analytics or similarAbilityto gain a UK Government Security ClearanceAzure PAAS architecture/build experienceSAS / SQL certified practitioner qualificationLocationLondonThe skills we look for in future employees All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that supp