Data Analyst, Data Collection

Financial Conduct Authority

Data Analyst focusing on designing data collection methodologies and improving data quality. Working at the FCA to support data-driven decisions in financial regulation.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £43,100 - £59,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PythonSQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build effective working relationships with stakeholders across the FCA to support alignment with data collection best practice, while applying appropriate challenge
Evaluate data collection proposals to assess quality, value, proportionality, and risk, while providing constructive feedback to enhance outcomes
Develop clear, reusable data collection processes, documentation, and templates to enable consistent and scalable self-service approaches
Apply analytical thinking to identify and assess issues in data collection design, improving data quality, consistency, and decision making
Use data tools and techniques including SQL, Python, and visualisation tools to validate and interrogate datasets, ensuring accuracy and integrity
Identify data issues and implement reproducible analytical approaches to support consistent and reliable management information reporting
Contribute to continuous improvement of end-to-end data collection processes by identifying opportunities to enhance tools, processes, and reporting capabilities
Provide clear guidance within established frameworks, promoting best practice across the FCA to improve data collection approaches

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience translating business or regulatory needs into structured processes and solutions, applying data or business analysis techniques where appropriate
Proven experience working with data to investigate issues, produce clear reporting, identify risk and opportunities for improvement, with a strong understanding of how data is collected, managed, and used
Experience in effectively communicating with and engaging stakeholders, with the ability to support and influence outcomes, as well as to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
Experience with data collection and management information reporting, delivering clear outputs aligned to reporting requirements
Contributed to the development and improvement of processes, documentation and standardised approaches, enhancing consistency and efficiency
Demonstrated high levels of accuracy and attention to detail in analysing, producing, and quality assuring outputs
Ability to understand and document data requirements, including user needs, data needs, processes, and flows
Knowledge of Financial Services Regulation, including regulatory reporting and compliance context
Intermediate proficiency, or clear ability to develop proficiency, in SQL, Python and data visualisation tools such as Tableau, to support data interrogation and reporting
Familiarity with workflow and delivery tools such as JIRA for task tracking, as well as familiarity with AI productivity tools, including responsible use of Copilot or similar for drafting and automation

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders)
Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance
35 hours of paid volunteering annually
A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLPythondata visualisationdata analysisdata collectiondata managementanalytical thinkingquality assuranceprocess documentationreporting

Soft Skills

stakeholder engagementcommunicationinfluencingattention to detailconstructive feedbackproblem-solvingcollaborationprocess improvementguidanceadaptability