Ambitious Graduate Business Analyst wanted to drive real impact in Financial Services from Newcastle.

A fast-growing financial services startup is building the tools that let smaller lenders and advisers compete with the big institutions. Regulation keeps tightening, client expectations keep rising, and the firms that win are the ones who can turn raw numbers into decisions fast. This Graduate Business Analyst role sits right at that pressure point, in Newcastle, with a team small enough that your work gets noticed in week one.

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

- Pull apart financial and operational data to spot where processes are losing time or money
- Build clear, usable reports and dashboards for people who don’t have time to dig through spreadsheets
- Sit in on client and stakeholder conversations, then translate what they actually need into requirements
- Support product and ops teams testing recent features before they go live
- Document processes properly, something most startups skip and later regret
- Flag risks and inconsistencies in data before they become somebody else’s problem

Here are the skills you’ll need:

- A degree in business, economics, finance, maths or something equally numbers-heavy
- Comfortable in Excel at a minimum. Any exposure to SQL or BI tools is a bonus, not a requirement
- Curiosity.



You should want to know why a number looks wrong, not just report that it does
- Written communication that doesn’t waffle. Analysts who can’t explain findings simply aren’t much use
- A genuine interest in financial services, not just a CV line
- Comfortable with ambiguity. Early-stage companies rarely hand you a finished brief

Key perks and benefits:

- Salary of £24,000 to £28,500, depending on experience
- Equity in the business. You’ll own a piece of what you help build
- Flexible working hours around a core office day in Newcastle
- Learning and development budget, so you’re not funding your own growth
- A flat structure where graduates speak directly to founders, not through three layers of management

Why pursue a career in Financial Services?

Financial services has absorbed more technology change in the last five years than the previous twenty, and firms need analysts who understand both the numbers and the systems behind them. Newcastle has quietly become one of the UK’s stronger regional hubs for this kind of work, with lower living costs than London and genuine career ladders inside growing companies. Start as a Graduate Business Analyst here and you’re learning a trade that stays in demand regardless of what the economy does next.

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