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Working at EY UK

  • Company employees
    400000
  • Gender diversity (m:f)
    52:48

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Join EY in London as a Forensic Data Analyst - Senior, where you will deliver end-to-end advanced data analytics solutions for high-profile forensic investigations and financial crime matters. This full-time role offers a competitive remuneration package with flexible working support and a culture dedicated to continuous career development.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Awareness across other programming languages such as R, C#, and JavaScript.
  • Strong critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and excellent communication abilities.
  • Domain knowledge of Financial Crime, Market Abuse, or fraud is ideally preferred.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Python & SQL: Carry out reactive and proactive data analysis of large structured and unstructured datasets to detect fraud, bribery, and corruption.
  • Azure & Databricks: Build scalable data engineering solutions and handle end-to-end ETL processes across the full project lifecycle.
  • Data Visualization: Develop supporting materials using visualization software like Power BI, Tableau, or Spotfire to clearly present analytical insights to clients.
  • Leadership & Supervision: Supervise the work of junior team members, ensure quality control, and scope projects through effective client communication.
  • Potential transition routes: People from data engineering, business intelligence, or financial risk analytics roles may bring strong technical programming and problem-solving skills, alongside meeting the analytical requirements for this forensic role.

Job description

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

At EY, you’ll 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 we’re 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:

  • Work with 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
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EY UK

Assurance - Financial Services - Forensic Data Analyst - Senior - London

London
Competitive remuneration package
  • 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, you’ll 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 you’ll 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 that’s right for you

    About EY:

    As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve 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.

    Make your mark.

    EY | Building a better working world

    EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

    Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

    EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

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