JUNIOR ANALYST - POSTGRADUATE YEAR PLACEMENT

JUNIOR ANALYST Postgraduate year placement as part of your degree (10 to 12-month temporary role)

Salary: Competitive

Location: Hybrid working: mostly based from home and 1dpw at our Leeds office

Placement Duration: To start August/Sep 2026 and run until Summer 2027.

About Jaywing

Founded in 1999, and now part of Stubben Edge Group, Jaywing’s heritage is in data science, predictive modelling and analytics that support both our risk and marketing clients. We collate, manage and analyse huge volumes of data to help businesses better understand their customers, optimise their lending strategies, and make the most of their marketing budgets. A large part of our work is in the support of bad debt (IFRS9) and capital (IRB) modelling and management.

Our Consulting team have many clients ranging from retail finance houses such as Frasers, to big banks like TSB, start-up lenders like Starling, and public sector organisations. We are seeing increased demand from our clients for our services, and this has created a vacancy for 2 postgrad placement year Junior Analysts. One role will focus on predictive modelling and analytics; the second would be more suited to candidates with a finance background and will cover IFRS9 and IRB concepts.

Jaywing has a unique working culture with a variety of projects that will keep you stimulated and give you experience of what it’s like to work for a data-driven consultancy. We put people at the heart of our business, an ethos that means our consultants stay with us for many years.

Role Purpose

The successful candidates will initially be allocated to support more experienced analysts and consultants on a large project for one of our clients. By the end of the placement, you can hope to leave with:

• A strong understanding of how to handle data and produce insight related to measuring credit risk.
• An introduction to how lenders manage credit risk, including:
• credit scoring
• modelling techniques
• IFRS9 and bad debt modelling
• IRB and Capital requirements
• An ability to work independently to produce and communicate meaningful data-driven insights and recommendations to a variety of stakeholders.
• More confidence in presenting your results to internal teams and potentially to clients (with support).
• The ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with colleagues.
• Skills necessary to support wider teams and collaborate on multi-disciplinary projects.

Skills Required

• Studying a relevant Masters/postgraduate degree such as: Mathematics and/or Statistics, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science, Big Data Analytics, Data analytics with Finance & Banking, etc.
• Strong coding skills in Python, R, SAS or SQL
• Problem-solving skills and good attention to detail.
• You’ll possess an analytical mind and excellent communication skills
• Inquisitive, enthusiastic and flexible – willing to take on whatever project comes your way.
• Able to organise your workload and keep colleagues and managers updated on your progress.
• Excited to work in a fast paced and intellectually stimulating environment where you will be given plenty of opportunity to develop and learn new skills.
• A basic understanding of some of the following tools would be helpful although not essential – Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Google Analytics, PowerPoint.
• Preference will be given to candidates who already have some relevant work experience, which could be a previous placement or full-time role.

Eligibility Criteria

• Must be studying an eligible course (Postgraduate course with placement year – in one of the subjects mentioned above).
• Have right to work in the UK.
• Have access to accommodation in or with easy access to Leeds.
• Bachelor degree in a numerate subject.

Key Accountabilities

Mentoring will be provided by our team of Analytical Consultants and you will also be assigned a work ‘buddy’ who will guide and support you. We have a flexible structure and approach which means the successful candidates will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects.

Projects will vary; typical requests may include writing some code to extract data, summarizing the results, and writing commentary on your findings. You may also work on longer-term projects such as supporting a model development / review. At all times you will be provided with appropriate support from project leads and colleagues.

We are professional without unnecessary formality, and both our people and clients welcome and enjoy this refreshing approach.

More Information

Jaywing employees are entitled to 25 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays) annually. Our contracted hours are 35 per week.