Top Analyst Jobs in Edinburgh

Reconciles investment portfolio data from external sources with an internal web-based system, investigates discrepancies, updates reporting data, meets daily deadlines, and communicates issues and resolutions to clients, data providers, and internal stakeholders. The role requires applying financial and accounting concepts, maintaining accurate documentation, and using advanced Excel tools to support reconciliation and reporting processes.

Manages real-time workforce operations in a high-volume contact center, including intraday performance monitoring, schedule creation and maintenance, workflow allocation, staffing updates, incident response, and operational communications. The role uses workforce management tools and data analysis to protect service levels, coordinate resources across channels, and align stakeholders on timely operational actions. It is office-based with rotational shifts between 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Conduct real-time monitoring, analysis, containment, remediation, malware analysis, and incident response across Windows, macOS, and Linux environments. Develop detection and response processes, communicate findings to customers, mentor junior analysts, provide technical escalation and quality assurance, manage programs or teams, and contribute to security thought leadership and process improvement.

Supports global investment clients by resolving investment and accounting inquiries, coordinating with internal teams, and delivering accurate responses. Reconciles portfolio data from external sources against Clearwater’s web-based system and provides timely daily status updates. The role requires strong communication, organization, problem-solving, computer, and analytical skills, along with a finance-related or analytical bachelor’s degree and enthusiasm for continuous learning.

Provides operational and client support for investment accounting and financial reporting inquiries. Responsibilities include managing client requests, validating investment data, reconciling transactions, completing account setup and compliance tasks, navigating internal tools, prioritizing workflows, and collaborating with clients and internal teams to resolve issues and improve the Clearwater user experience.

Supports Finance and Go-To-Market departments by designing data recording systems, monitoring data quality, enforcing governance, analyzing large datasets, producing concise reports, and recommending process improvements. The role translates complex findings into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders and supports Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success objectives.

Analyze large-scale security telemetry, threat intelligence, endpoint, and detection data to identify trends, anomalies, and emerging threats. Build dashboards, reports, data pipelines, and KPI frameworks using SQL, Python, LogScale, or similar tools. Collaborate with data engineering, product, and engineering teams to ensure data quality and translate complex findings into actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nine-week summer internship focused on analytics, project management, and process improvement. Interns analyze data, support strategic decisions, coordinate projects, identify workflow inefficiencies, use AI-enabled tools, communicate with stakeholders, and help implement measurable business improvements.

Partners with People & Culture stakeholders to gather and document business requirements, define user stories and acceptance criteria, map processes, and support Agile solution delivery. Acts as the liaison between business stakeholders, product owners, and technical teams while identifying process improvements, dependencies, risks, and impacts across HR technology solutions, particularly SAP SuccessFactors.

Monitors and maintains client asset and securities data, validates accuracy against market sources, evaluates data vendors, and supports reference data products. The role responds to data inquiries, documents workflows, performs basic SQL analysis, maintains real-time investment data, ensures risk and control compliance, and analyzes information flows between accounting and custody systems. It also develops expertise in fixed income, equities, corporate bonds, and related investment processes.

Support project risk activities: identify, assess and prioritise threats and opportunities; maintain trigger points and risk budgets; develop measurable mitigations; monitor exposure; produce risk reports; perform quantitative risk assessment using tools like Safran, @RISK or PRA; and use web-based reporting tools such as ARM, Xactium, Predict, Tableau and Power BI.

Perform laboratory analysis of raw materials, intermediates, finished products, cleaning verification samples, and other materials under cGMP and GLP requirements. Document and report results, investigate deviations and out-of-specification results, maintain laboratory compliance and safety, conduct housekeeping and audits, and assist with training less experienced QC staff. The role requires shift work, laboratory equipment use, PPE, and handling chemicals and heavy objects.

Conduct real-time security monitoring, alert analysis, incident response, malware analysis, and remote remediation across Windows, Mac, and Linux environments. Develop detection and response processes, communicate findings to customers, provide technical escalation and mentorship, oversee analyst quality, manage programs or teams, and contribute to security thought leadership and process improvements.

Monitor and analyze security alerts, investigate and respond to incidents across Windows, macOS, and Linux, perform malware and forensic analysis, remotely remediate threats, and improve detection and response processes. The analyst communicates findings to customers, mentors junior analysts, provides quality oversight, manages teams or programs, serves as a technical escalation point, and contributes to security thought leadership and process development.

Monitor and analyze security alerts, investigate and respond to incidents across Windows, macOS, and Linux, perform malware and forensic analysis, remotely remediate threats, improve detection and response processes, and communicate findings to customers. The role also involves developing security expertise, contributing to public thought leadership, and using AI technologies to improve decision-making and workflows.

Leads OT security monitoring and triage operations, investigates suspicious activity across industrial networks, validates detections, and escalates findings to incident responders and threat hunters. Maintains the Dragos Platform for customers, including asset classification, vulnerability management, detection tuning, and hardening recommendations. Produces incident reports, mentors analysts, collaborates across cybersecurity teams, and develops expertise in ICS protocols, adversary tactics, and industrial threat intelligence. The role includes shift-based coverage and occasional weekend or on-call work.

Supports UK Treasury activities including daily cash and liquidity management, cash forecasting, funding coordination, treasury operations, risk and control monitoring, reporting, and process improvement. The role partners with finance teams and senior stakeholders across regions, prepares liquidity and cash-flow insights, maintains banking records and treasury documentation, supports audits and governance, and helps implement treasury systems and automation.

Provide technical expertise to Scottish local authorities and climate partners; support climate-plan tracking through ClimateView; analyze Scotland-wide datasets for policy insights; identify best practices; coordinate climate-action delivery; lead workstreams; and help develop data services. The role also supports measuring the wider economic and social impacts of climate action.

Supports digital transformation by researching operations, gathering business requirements, documenting functional specifications, improving processes, and helping implement automated workflows and reporting solutions. The role collaborates with stakeholders, IT, and project managers; develops project documentation, tracks KPIs, analyzes trends, and recommends improvements aligned with strategic goals.

Lead the implementation, configuration, and ongoing development of FactSet across investment, performance, risk, and reporting processes. Manage data integrations, reconciliation, governance, reporting, analytics, user onboarding, training, issue resolution, and vendor relationships. Translate investment business requirements into platform configurations and workflow solutions, manage concurrent delivery workstreams, provide progress reporting, and support investment technology improvements.

Manage and oversee policyholder investment portfolios, including asset allocation implementation, multi-asset fund performance monitoring, proposition development, governance reporting, and stakeholder management. The role requires expertise in strategic asset allocation, investment markets, fund management, operating models, fund structures, asset classes, policyholder governance, and relevant legal, tax, and regulatory environments.

Support and enhance Aberdeen’s Oracle ERP Finance platform across Supplier Portal, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable. Configure processes, lead patching and quarterly releases, troubleshoot data, integrations, reporting, access, and scheduled-process issues, and coordinate testing, documentation, service requests, incidents, and change management with Finance, technology teams, vendors, and Oracle support.

Manage and integrate detailed project and programme schedules using Microsoft Project. Establish baselines, dependencies, milestones, critical paths, resource plans, forecasts, and progress tracking. Identify schedule risks and variances, produce reports and dashboards, support PMO governance and stage gates, and provide planning insights to project and programme managers. The role also contributes to RAID logs, highlight reports, quality assurance, and stakeholder communication across a high-profile M&A programme.

Produces quantitative insights and bespoke analytics for investment teams, develops financial datasets and reproducible workflows, and enhances an Investment Intelligence platform using AI, machine learning, large language models, and agentic systems. The role supports portfolio construction, investment decisions, and alpha generation while collaborating with investment, technology, data, risk, trading, and operations teams.

Supports the Research Accountant and Research Grants Team by preparing detailed financial award reconciliations, resolving legacy grant issues, identifying root causes, and implementing remedial ledger actions to support grant closure and post-award financial administration.