Senior Data Analyst - Financial Services (Contract)

Senior Data Analyst — Financial Services — Contract (Remote, Brazil)

Santiago Consult is a UK-based data and AI consultancy. We build data platforms, pipelines and AI systems for clients across the UK and Europe, and we're expanding our delivery capability in Brazil.

We're building a network of senior contract data analysts with financial services experience, ready to bring onto client projects as they start. This is a talent pool ahead of upcoming engagements, so we want to talk to strong people now even if a project isn't live on day one.

The work

Financial analysis carries a different weight. Numbers have to reconcile, definitions have to hold up under scrutiny, and someone will always ask where a figure came from. You'd be working directly with the founder on client delivery — turning transactional and financial data into analysis that stands up.

Typical engagements involve:

• Analysing transactional, customer and product data across banking, payments or lending
• Building models in dbt on top of BigQuery or Snowflake
• Designing dashboards for finance, risk and operations teams
• Cohort, retention, churn and customer-value analysis
• Reconciliation, control and data-quality reporting
• Defining metrics rigorously and documenting them properly
• Presenting findings to client stakeholders, including senior and non-technical audiences

What we're looking for

• Analytical experience in financial services, banking, fintech, payments or insurance
• Strong SQL — window functions, complex joins, performance awareness
• Real analytical judgement: knowing which question matters, not just answering the one you were asked
• Experience with BigQuery or Snowflake in production
• dbt experience, or a solid grasp of analytics engineering practice
• A BI tool in anger — Looker, Power BI, Tableau, Metabase or similar
• Comfortable working in English with UK-based clients, including client-facing conversations
• Understanding that in financial data, "close enough" isn't

Nice to have

• Regulatory or management reporting experience
• Risk, fraud or credit analytics
• Python for analysis (pandas)
• Git and a review workflow
• Forecasting or predictive modelling
• Exposure to UK or European financial regulation
• Experience working in a consultancy or agency

Practical details

• Fully remote, contract basis (PJ)
• Project-based work, typically several weeks to several months
• Good overlap with UK hours (Brazil is 3–4 hours behind, so the working day lines up well)
• Paid in GBP or BRL, your preference

How to apply

Send your CV or LinkedIn profile, and please include:

1. Your day rate expectation (BRL or GBP — whichever you work in) — applications without a daily rate expectation won't be considered

2. A short note on one analysis you've done that changed what the business did — what you found, and what happened next

3. Your availability and current commitments

4. Whether you invoice as PJ

We read everything and reply either way.