Lead Data & Insights Analyst

Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

Our vision is to put data at the heart of everything we do, to unleash its potential across the business and enable data-leading decisions that will increase the value of our services to clients, colleagues and communities.

As a lead member of the analytics team, you will be a key advocate for data insights, promoting data-driven decision-making by engaging with stakeholders. You will be a key bridge to the Marketing, BD and Client Experience teams for data and analytics. You will be expected to develop solutions to business challenges and enhance the team's capabilities through coaching and mentoring.

The Lead Data & Insight Analyst will also lead significant projects, improve existing products, and work with various business stakeholders to turn information into useable intelligence and knowledge.

You will be expected to deliver high-quality, clear, and timely analytics, reports and dashboards to meet stakeholders' needs.

• Play a lead role in developing capability across the analytics team, either technical proficiency or expertise in a key domain in the business.
• Support the delivery of the Analytics strategy within the team, plus also in the delivery to key business areas, in particular the Marketing, Business Development and Client Experience teams.
• Translate Marketing, Business Development and Client Experience business challenges into clear data and analytics requirements and vice versa translating analytics outputs into business recommendation and action.
• Apply extensive experience to identify ways to visualize and present information in a user-friendly manner, and develop the capability of other analytics team members.
• Manage own workloads, and those of other analytics team members, to deliver projects at pace and to a high quality.
• Lead development of analytics solutions that solve challenges highlighted by the business.
• Promote and encourage a Data-driven culture, artfully choosing which measure we think the business should focus on, whilst providing self-service solutions.
• Collaborates and leads colleagues from across the business, ranging from simple analytical requests to building and maintaining complex business processes via Power Apps
• Develop an understanding of the business, its services and how the business works to identify opportunities for improvement based upon data and analytics, and to ensure that actions and recommendations from analytics and insight provides can be identified.

About You

• Very strong domain knowledge within the business and successfully deal with all levels of internal stakeholders or role modelling capability (at Market level) in technical disciplines
• Extensive Power BI, or other data visualisation tools, experience with a firm understanding of visualisation best practice
• Significant experience of working with SQL and experience of working with relational databases
• Experience of digital analytics tools such as Google Analytics
• Microsoft Office skills with an ability to become familiar with firm-specific programs and software
• Significant experience of using analytical skills to driving insight and action in a commercial, operational or financial setting
• Experience of working within a Professional services firm
• Some experience of Python or R programming languages

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.