Data Scientist - Financial Services - London - Contract

Data Scientist / Data Analyst - Financial Services - London - Contract

Overview

A fantastic new opportunity for a Data Scientist / Data Analyst has become available to join a well established bank. The role is to be London based, on a contract basis for 3-6 months.

My client is looking for an experienced Data Scientist / Data Analyst to assist in providing useful credit market risk data insight to the bank from existing data sets.

The Data Scientist / Data Analyst will require knowledge of tools such as R and Matlab and will be working alongside a team of quant developers.

As a Data Scientist / Data Analyst you will need to communicate with both technical and business teams, therefore the successful Data Scientist / Data Analyst must have excellent communication skills.

Essential skills & experience:

- Experience with analysing large data sets and big data analytics
- Extensive statistical modelling skills
- Knowledge of statistical tools such as R and Matlab
- Expert SQL scripting skills
- Excellent communication
- A good mix of intellect and commercial awareness

Desired skills & experience:

- Any financial services experience with credit risk / market data
- A quantitative analytical background (quant developer / technical business analyst / data scientist etc)
- Awareness of emerging and new technologies and techniques within analytics
- A mathematical or scientific degree or PhD

To apply for this exciting opportunity please send your CV or call Braham on .

Data Scientist / Data Analyst - Financial Services - London - Contract