It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. Senior Data Scientist – Retail Banking Location: Manchester or Leeds Fractal is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal is building a world where individual choices, freedom, and diversity are the greatest assets. An ecosystem where human imagination is at the heart of every decision. Where no possibility is written off, only challenged to get better. We believe that a true Fractalite is the one who empowers imagination with intelligence. Fractal has been featured as a Great Place to Work by The Economic Times in partnership with the Great Place to Work® Institute and recognized as a ‘Cool Vendor’ and a ‘Vendor to Watch’ by Gartner. Role Overview As the client analytics team evolves, we are looking to onboard commercially savvy, independent Data Scientists to support and accelerate a predefined analytics backlog. The role requires strong technical capability, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate autonomously while driving measurable business impact. defined analytics backlog. The role requires strong technical capability, commercial acumen, and the ability to operate autonomously while driving measurable business impact. The Analyst/Data Scientist will design and deliver analytical solutions that help grow wallet share, increase market share, and improve customer engagement. They will also lead the creation of selfserve reporting and dashboards that enable stakeholders to track performance and key drivers. serve reporting and dashboards that enable stakeholders to track performance and key drivers. Key Responsibilities Develop insights and recommendations to increase wallet spend across key customer segments. Design and deliver initiatives aimed at growing market share, including tracking performance and conducting rootcause analysis. c ause analysis. Build a selfserve dashboard to monitor market share, performance KPIs, and related contributing factors. serve dashboard Own end to end delivery of analysis with minimal oversight—problem structuring, data extraction, modelling, and presentation end t o end delivery of analysis with minimal oversight—problem structuring, data extraction, modelling, and presentation. Conduct data mining, manipulation, and validation using robust reconciliation practices. Identify and select relevant data points for accurate and meaningful analysis. Build customer segmentations/profiles to inform commercial strategies and product decisions. Perform conversion and funnel analysis to understand customer behaviour and optimise interventions. Create business ready visualisations and structured reporting for senior stakeholders. ready visualisations and structured reporting for senior stakeholders. Automate repetitive tasks, streamline data workflows, and improve analytical efficiency. Design and evaluate marketing campaign structures—targeting, proposition, test design, measurement based on statistical significance. Present insights confidently and manage stakeholder expectations through clear, proactive communication. Deliver high quality outputs at pace with minimal rework, quality outputs at pace with minimal rework. Skills & Experience Required Technical & Analytical Skills Strong data mining, wrangling, and manipulation experience (SQL, Python, or equivalent). High competence in validation checks, reconciliations, and data quality assurance. Advanced data visualisation capability (Power BI, Tableau, or similar). Experience building dashboards and business reporting tools. Familiarity with optimisation and automation techniques in analytics workflows. Commercial & Domain Experience Debit payments or current account experience within UK Financial Services (desired). Understanding of banking profitability, product economics, and business case modelling. Background in customer profiling, segmentation, and behavioural analytics. Experience designing and evaluating commercial or marketing campaigns. Strong understanding of conversion metrics and commercial performance levers. Behavioural Competencies Highly independent and proactive, able to manage workload and prioritisation autonomously. Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence stakeholders. Delivers consistently to a high standard with minimal rework. Comfortable working in a fastpaced, out comes driven environment. If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us! Not the right fit? Let us know you're interested in a future opportunity by clicking Introduce Yourself in the top-right corner of the page or create an account to set up email alerts as new job postings become available that meet your interest!