Assurance Financial Services Forensic Data Analyst Senior London

At EY youll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are with the global scale support inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And were counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself and a better working world for all.

About the team:

As part of the Forensics & Integrity Services our Forensic Data Analytics team provides advanced analytics services to support high profile and sensitive client matters such as real time fraud detection / prevention fraud investigations financial crime disputes and litigations. Our work involves developing data and analytics solutions to regularly ingest and monitor data to detect regulatory and compliance risks such as fraud bribery and corruption money laundering sanctions breaches know your customer failings (KYC) price fixing mis-selling of financial products employee misconduct trader and market abuse (surveillance) and much more. This is achieved by combining deep forensic investigation knowledge with advanced data engineering and data science techniques such as investigative data linking social network analysis statistics machine learning and large language models.

Your key responsibilities:

• Workwith financial services clients fraud strategy fraud analytics fraud investigators internal and external auditors lawyers and regulatory authorities in sensitive situations
• Communicate with clients to scope projects and gather requirements
• Highlight and explain the outputs of our analytics to clients in the context of their business
• Be responsible for end-to-end delivery of projects across the full lifecycle - Data extraction transformation loading (ETL) analysis visualisation deployment and client delivery
• Handle a large amount of structured and unstructured data from a variety of data sources
• Carry out reactive and proactive data analysis of large datasets using a wide range of technologies such as Python SQL and Power BI.
• Supervise the work of junior team members and be responsible for quality control of work products from the team
• Develop algorithms and solutions to detect respond prevent continually monitor and investigate areas of fraud bribery & corruption misconduct and financial crime
• Apply analytic techniques to prevent detect monitor or investigate potentially improper transactions events or patterns of behaviour related to misconduct fraud and non-compliance issues
• Develop supporting material using a suite of visualisation software to clearly present the benefits of the analysis to clients
• Align to various strategic teams in the areas of technology innovation and business development

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Strong academic qualifications with a degree in a STEM discipline (Computer Science Engineering Statistics Mathematics etc.) or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrable proficiency in SQL Python Azure data factory and/or Databricks and Visualization techniques and awareness across other programming languages such as R C# JavaScript
• Ability to work independently manage work products and mentor junior team members
• Strong critical thinking problem-solving skills understanding of algorithms and appreciation of working with data
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex analytical concepts to stakeholders from different backgrounds

Ideally youll also have:

• Domain knowledge of Financial Crime Market Abuse Mis-selling remediations accounting fraud bribery and corruption or sector specific knowledge or experience
• Organisational ability people skills and project management potential
• Previous consulting experience and experience with:
• Relational databases e.g. SQL Server PostgreSQL Oracle MySQL;
• Data visualisation software: Spotfire Tableau or Power BI;
• Azure cloud computing platform;
• Big data technologies such as Spark Elasticsearch Hadoop;
• Statistical techniques (regression clustering etc.);
• Machine learning and pattern recognition;
• Front-end web development e.g. HTML JavaScript;

We are looking for tenacious and curious individuals with a desire to get to the bottom of things. You will be intellectually rigorous with extremely strong analytical skills have a passion for data be adaptable and show an ability to build strong relationships.

What working at EY offers:

We offer a competitive remuneration package where youll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs covering holidays health and well-being insurance savings and a wide range of discounts offers and promotions. Plus we offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way thats right for you

About EY:

As a global leader in assurance tax transaction and advisory services were using the finance products expertise and systems weve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join however long you stay the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people we are dedicated to making EY the best employer.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above please contact us as soon as possible.

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