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Senior Data and Insights Analyst
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Senior Data & Insight Analyst
Location: London (Greenford or Stratford), Manchester, or Leeds
Contract: Permanent, Full Time
Department: Data & Information
A leading higher education organisation is seeking a Senior Data & Insight Analyst to join its central Data & Information team. The role will provide high-quality reporting, analysis, and actionable insights to support senior leadership, business operations, and strategic decision-making across the organisation.
This is a hands-on position combining data analysis, business intelligence, reporting, stakeholder engagement, and data governance. You will play a key role in taking data projects from initial requirements through to solution development and implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead data projects from requirements gathering through to the development and implementation of reporting solutions.
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements, challenge existing processes, and recommend effective data-driven solutions.
- Extract, prepare, combine, and analyse data from multiple internal and external sources.
- Develop and maintain interactive dashboards, analytical tools, reports, and visualisations.
- Produce accurate and timely reporting for internal and external audiences, including regulatory reporting.
- Use Power BI, Excel, and DAX to develop reporting and business intelligence solutions.
- Monitor and improve data quality, integrity, governance, and consistency across reporting environments.
- Design and analyse organisational surveys, translating findings into meaningful insights.
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting processes, data capabilities, and operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with teams across the organisation to develop new dashboards and enhance existing data products.
- Communicate complex analytical findings and technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Maintain awareness of relevant information governance, data security, and compliance requirements.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to colleagues, supporting the development of data and analytical capability across the team.
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Skills & Experience
- Degree in a numerate or analytical subject.
- Strong knowledge of statistical techniques and data modelling.
- Solid understanding of relational database architecture and querying.
- Experience working with and integrating diverse datasets from multiple sources.
- Strong T-SQL skills for data querying and transformation.
- Extensive experience developing reports and dashboards using Power BI, including strong DAX capability.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data concepts into clear business insights.
- Experience managing data projects from requirements through to implementation.
- Experience with data quality, governance, and information management.
- Experience coaching or mentoring colleagues and sharing technical knowledge.
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Desirable Experience
- Experience within higher education or another regulated environment.
- Strong Python skills.
- Knowledge of machine learning and advanced analytical techniques.
What’s on Offer
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 public holidays.
- Additional annual leave based on length of service.
- Workplace pension.
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities.
- Flexible benefits, including Cycle to Work, workplace nursery, and technology schemes.
- Employee discounts and wellbeing benefits.
- Reward and recognition programmes.
- Employee referral incentives.
- Discretionary annual performance bonus.
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