Senior Lead Analyst

Senior Lead Analyst

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London, Greater London, GB, EC2V 8

Final date to receive applications: T22:17:22.743

Senior Analyst / Project Lead - Asset Management Strategy & Data (£85-90k + bonus) A specialist advisory business is growing its Asset Management practice and looking for a Senior Analyst / Project Lead to work directly alongside one of its senior leaders, acting as the engine room behind live client engagements with global Asset & Wealth Managers. This isn't a generic "support" role.

You'll be the right hand to a senior leader who is winning and running high-profile benchmarking and strategy work - which means real ownership of delivery, direct exposure to client stakeholders, and a front-row seat to how a growing practice gets built.

If you're currently at a Big 4 firm, a specialist like Alpha FMC, or working inside an Asset Manager's strategy/operating-model function, you may recognise these frustrations:

• You do the analytical heavy lifting, but someone more senior takes the client credit.
• You're one of many on a large team, with limited visibility of the bigger picture.
• You want more client-facing exposure and commercial awareness, not just deliverables.
• Career progression feels slow and hierarchical, rather than earned through impact.

This role fixes that. You'll work closely with one senior leader (not a layered team structure), see how deals are won, and directly influence the quality and speed of delivery for high-profile clients.

• Act as the delivery engine on Asset Management client engagements - benchmarking, market sizing, operating model, and fee/pricing analysis.
• Own the data: building, cleaning, analysing and interpreting datasets that underpin client recommendations.
• Work directly with clients to gather information, test hypotheses, and present findings - this is not a back-office analyst role.
• Support the shaping of new proposals and pitches, bringing a commercial eye and a nose for spotting opportunities as they emerge in client conversations.
• Partner closely with a senior leader as their go-to person for getting things done, right across the project lifecycle.

• Genuine Asset Management experience is essential - either from a consulting background (Big 4, Alpha FMC or similar specialist firms) working with AM clients, or from an in-house strategy, operating model, or product/solutions team at an Asset or Wealth Manager.
• Strong technical/data skills: comfortable building and interrogating models, structuring data, and translating numbers into a clear narrative.
• Confidence operating with clients directly - this isn't a role for someone who only works behind the scenes.
• A commercial instinct: you notice opportunities and naturally think about what else a client might need, even without a BD target attached to your role.
• A self-starter mentality - you won't be trained on Asset Management fundamentals, so you need to already speak the language of the industry.

• More exposure. Direct access to senior leadership and clients from day one, not buried in a large project team.
• More impact. Your data work directly shapes the advice given to major Asset Managers.
• More trajectory. As the practice scales, so does your opportunity to grow with it.
• Real ownership, without the bureaucracy of a larger firm.

• Base salary: £80,000-£90,000
• Bonus: performance-linked
• Location:
  
  London (hybrid)