City St George's, University of London
Senior Planning and Assurance Analyst (Maternity Cover)
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City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice, and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science, and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.
Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice, and has a positive impact on the world around us.
Background
The Strategic Planning and Performance (SPPU) directorate plays a critical role within the University to inform and facilitate the delivery of the Strategy and enable evidence-based decision-making. SPPU operates centrally in the University, reporting directly into the University’s Deputy President (Operations) and working closely with the University Senior Leadership team.
The directorate’s activities include strategy formation and deployment, academic and financial planning, business intelligence, student management information, statutory assurance, performance, benchmarking, and league tables analysis.
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Responsibilities
The Senior Planning and Assurance Analyst role supports activities relating to statutory assurance and league table submissions and analysis. The specific responsibilities include:
- Analysing and validating the accuracy of key statutory returns
- The optimisation and submission of information to league tables
- Enhancing key processes through automation
The post-holder will work in close collaboration with the broader SPPU team, supporting the wider operations of the directorate including the production of dashboards on the university’s Tableau platform to support business intelligence.
Person Specification
Candidates will have good knowledge of how statutory Higher Education returns are used for compliance and reputational purposes, including their use in league tables. You will be highly numerate with experience of analysing a range of different types of data (student/staff/financial) and influencing organisational decision making. You will have experience of using different technological platforms and systems to manipulate and analyse large, complex datasets as well as knowledge of designing and creating data visualisations and dashboards.
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Additional Information
- Closing date for applications: 02 August 2026 at 11:59pm
- The selection process will involve an interview and an assessment (data analysis using Excel). Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage.
City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme, and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.
City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students, and visitors.
We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background. City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.
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