Data/BI Analyst (12 Month FTC)

This is an exciting opportunity for a data-driven professional to play a key role in transforming data into meaningful business insights. Working closely with business stakeholders, you will gather and understand requirements before modelling data and developing statistical queries, visualisations, and dashboards that provide the evidence and assurance needed to answer critical business questions.

A central aspect of the role involves preparing and managing data to support informed decision-making across the organisation. This includes data wrangling, cleansing, enrichment, and assessing data quality, while helping to identify and resolve issues within production and test environments that may impact analysis and reporting outcomes.

• Establish and manage key data management capabilities, including data quality assurance, metadata management, master data management, and data modelling.
• Support data governance controls and collaborate with business data owners to maintain high-quality data across the organisation.
• Contribute to data governance and control frameworks that ensure data quality, consistency, and integrity.
• Document and maintain source-to-target mappings, data flows, and data definitions, ensuring alignment with data standards and strategy.
• Design and facilitate user self-service solutions for tactical data requests and reporting, working closely with data analysts and business users.

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into actionable insights, dashboards, and reports.
• Re-engineer manual data processes to improve scalability and reporting efficiency, collaborating with departments such as IT to enhance data capture within source systems and meet analytical requirements.
• Develop accessible datasets that support self-service analysis and ensure the organisation has the appropriate data infrastructure to maximise value from its data.
• Help advance the organisation’s analytics capabilities through the use of tools such as Python, PySpark, and Machine Learning, applying statistical techniques to generate deeper business insights.

• Collaborate with Data Analysts, business SMEs, and cross-functional teams to support the successful delivery and growth of the data analytics function.
• Monitor team workflows, resource allocation, and project progress, while supporting the ongoing professional development of team members through training and development initiatives.

• Proven experience in a Data Analyst, data-focused Business Analyst, or similar role.
• Data modelling experience.
• Advanced data visualisation and reporting skills, including the creation of Power BI reports and dashboards.
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Experience in data cleansing and data enrichment.
• Advanced knowledge of SQL queries and joins.
• Knowledge and experience of data governance practices.