Data & Analytics Senior Manager - Asset and Wealth Management

A career in within Data and Analytics Technology services, will provide you with the opportunity to help organisations uncover enterprise insights and drive business results using smarter data analytics. We focus on a collection of organisational technology capabilities, including business intelligence, data management, and data assurance that help our clients drive innovation, growth, and change within their organisations in order to keep up with the changing nature of customers and technology. We make impactful decisions by mixing mind and machine to leverage data, understand and navigate risk, and help our clients gain a competitive edge.

PwC work with some of the largest UK and International Asset and Wealth management organisations. As the business and regulatory environment becomes more complex, these organisations are collecting and using more data than ever before. This introduces new and on-going challenges as they try to maximise the value of, and effectively use, this data. The Data and Analytics team works with clients through improved insight from Artificial Intelligence and advanced analytics/data visualisation, and by establishing the right controls, processes and structures to ensure that decisions are based on accurate information. In addition, we assure that information and data provided to regulators and third parties is accurate, complete and trustworthy.

Who we are looking for

If you are a Data Analytics savvy professional with experience in Financial Services focused on Asset Management or Wealth management this will be an excellent opportunity for you to join a successful team at a time of growth.

Our team focuses on helping Asset and Wealth Management clients leverage their data assets to better support their clients, understand their business, deliver on their regulatory requirements and become more efficient. We are currently looking for experienced senior managers to join our fast growing team in the Asset and Wealth Management business. We have ambitious plans and are looking for individuals who can develop and build our go-to-market propositions and excel in client delivery.

Your Main Responsibilities

• Managing projects including project delivery, budget and risk

• Actively contributing on client-facing project work, being self-starting and motivated to produce the required high standard of deliverables

• Developing and owning PwC propositions and delivery methodologies

• Building and maintaining relationships both internally within the PwC network and externally with clients

• Supporting sales through work on bids, proposal responses and developing opportunities

About You

• Experience of the UK Financial Services industry - ideally in Asset and Wealth Management

• Understanding relevant Financial Services regulation (eg MIFID II, EMIR, AML, Dodd-Frank, FATCA, and Solvency II)

• Understanding of the Business Value Chain

• Experience in building Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning models eg Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Generation (NLG), Deep Learning (Voice and Image recognition), Geospatial Prediction, Multi-layer Perceptron and other Neural Networks.

• Artificial Intelligence/Voice Technology experience eg IBM Watson, Amazon Echo, Google Home, Microsoft Cortana, Apple Siri.

• Experience in multiple tools/language/frameworks within the Big Data (Hadoop, Spark, Hive, MongoDB, Neo4j, Hbase, Cassandra)

• Understanding of Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Platforms (eg Azure/IBM/Google)

• Advanced data analytics, building models in Python, R, SAS programming languages and libraries

• Data analytics and visualisation products such as D3, Power BI, Qlikview, Tableau

• Strong SQL and data manipulation skills

• Data quality and data cleansing techniques

• Understanding of the principles of data governance

You will also need to have

• Track record of managing data project delivery and project teams including ability to meet deadlines, overcome challenges, manage stakeholder expectations and produce project deliverables

• Ability to develop new ideas into structured, deliverable proposals and projects

• Ability to identify and address client needs, develop and maintain meaningful client relationships

• Strong analytical and problem solving capabilities

• Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills

• Excellent presentation and report writing skills

Desirable Skills

• Understanding of statistical analytics methods and the ability to apply these in the appropriate circumstances

• Datamodelling and/or data architecture experience

• Knowledge of database and ETL technologies

• Experience of business analysis tasks and approaches

Desirable qualifications

• A technical background in Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Analytics or similar

• Ability to gain a UK Government Security Clearance

• SAS/SQL certified practitioner qualification

About PwC

We're one of the world's leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.