Junior Data Scientist: Finance & Market Analytics

• On this programme, you’ll experience working in London within a Financial Services company.

• After, you will move to the client site, helping to deliver key outcomes alongside industry professionals.

• You will work closely with senior data scientists, product managers, and brokerage desks to design solutions that optimise trade lifecycle efficiency, enhance market data quality, and automate legacy workflows.

• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines using Python and SQL to ingest, process, and store real-time and historical market data.

• Analyze internal operational metrics (e.g., trade processing times, system latency, and STP/Straight-Through Processing rates) to identify bottlenecks and operational improvements.

• Assist in developing machine learning models and predictive analytics for post-trade services, compliance monitoring, and data quality assurance.

• Partner with global sales, broking, and technology teams to understand business requirements and translate them into robust data models.

• Create intuitive data visualisations and automated reporting dashboards (e.g., using Tableau, Power BI, or Python-based UIs) to provide actionable insights for operations management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Finance, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Strong coding skills in Python, alongside proficiency in querying and managing data with SQL.
• Familiarity with data manipulation libraries (Pandas, Num Py) and machine learning frameworks (Scikit-Learn, Tensor Flow, or PyTorch).
• Basic understanding of version control (Git) and BI/visualisation tools.
• Advanced Excel capabilities are highly valued for trading desk integration.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with a high degree of attention to detail and data integrity.
• Knowledge of financial markets (Fixed Income, OTC derivatives, or FX) and an understanding of front-to-back trading operations are significant advantages.

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Hard Skills

• Python
• SQL
• data manipulation
• Pandas
• Num Py
• machine learning
• Scikit-Learn
• Tensor Flow
• Py Torch
• Excel

Soft Skills

• analytical skills
• problem-solving
• attention to detail
• data integrity