Role: Statutory Data Returns Manager

Location: Hybrid
Salary: Up to 55K

Who You Are

You are an experienced, analytical data professional with expertise in statutory returns, data quality and compliance, and the ability to lead teams and manage complex datasets.

About Us

Regent College London is a leading independent higher education provider, offering flexible and inclusive learning across multiple London campuses. We are student-focused, digitally forward, and committed to academic excellence.

The Role

Lead the preparation and submission of statutory student data returns, ensuring data quality, regulatory compliance, and effective collaboration across Regent College London.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the team to deliver statutory data returns, ensuring compliance with timescales and deadlines.
• Being an expert on the uses and implications of institutional data within regulatory returns.
• Understanding the data required from the institution to meet statutory data requirements, including data flows across systems.
• Ensuring college systems can collect the right data by working across the data and technology landscape.
• Identifying data quality issues within statutory data and working with data owners, stewards, and producers to find resolutions.
• Defining and delivering an assured statutory dataset for insight and analysis, including providing data definitions and quality assurance.
• Leading the preparation, validation, and submission of statutory data returns, including HESA, OfS, Data Futures, Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey, Provider Profile, Discover Uni, NSS, and Graduate Outcomes.
• Ensuring the accuracy and completeness of data by implementing robust data quality checks and validation processes.
• Collaborating with internal departments to gather and compile necessary data.
• Staying updated on changes in statutory data reporting requirements to ensure institutional compliance.
• Interpreting and implementing data reporting guidelines from regulatory bodies.
• Advising senior management on compliance issues and potential impacts of regulatory changes.
• Analysing data to identify trends, anomalies, and areas for improvement.
• Developing and maintaining documentation of data processes, methodologies, and definitions.
• Conducting regular audits to ensure data integrity and compliance with reporting standards.
• Liaising with external bodies, including regulatory agencies and auditors.
• Collaborating with academic and administrative staff to enhance data collection processes.
• Providing training and support to staff involved in data collection and reporting.
• Identifying and implementing enhancements to data collection and reporting systems.
• Working with IT and other departments to optimize data management systems and tools.
• Leading and managing projects related to statutory data returns, ensuring timelines and deliverables are met.
• Preparing reports and presentations for senior management on the status and outcomes of data return submissions.
• Managing and supporting a small team of data analysts, ensuring effective resource allocation.
• Providing leadership on the implications for statutory returns of major Office for Students and Government initiatives.
• Contributing to a collaborative work environment by supporting decision-making on BI and data warehouse solutions.