Data Analyst - Finance Focus

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fixed-term: 24 months

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a Data Analyst to join the Strategic Change Service within the Corporate Services Group.  The successful candidate will be joining us at a critical time in our development and at the start of a new portfolio of strategic change. We need someone who is happy talking to stakeholders at all levels of our business and find the right people in a complex environment.  We need you to have the experience to ensure projects deliver quality but also to help us shape and continually improve how our team works.

As a Data Analyst you will be aligned to a couple of the Projects specifically focused around our Oracle platform looking at finance and HR data. The Data Analyst will be essential in ensuring that the data challenges are understood, solutions are defined and delivered.  You will also ensure that stakeholder expectations are managed across the full project lifecycle.  The successful candidate will bring some excellent experience in data analysis, particularly in the finance space.  We need you to be good at sourcing and modelling data to provide options to solve business problems and meet reporting needs.  But we don’t just want an order taker, we need someone who is happy to dig into the needs and truly understand the business outcomes that we are trying to achieve.

The data analysis capability is new to the Strategic Change Service, so this role will be key in developing our ways of working within our team.  Along with our Senior Data Analyst you will support the development of standards for how we perform data analysis going forward.

We are an expert team of professionals advising, coordinating, supporting and co-producing strategic initiatives and improvements in partnership with our colleges and services, and their constituent schools and departments.  We are driven by a commitment to deliver positive outcomes that benefit those who work, study and partner with the University.

The role holder will line managed by the Head of Business Analysis and will play a significant part in the delivery of a high-quality Analysis services to the Strategic Change Service Team and our broader University network of stakeholders who support the delivery of portfolio. 

You can access information on our current portfolio on our Strategic Initiatives webpage.

This role is hybrid but it is expected that this role requires 2 – 3 days per week in varying offices across our campus.

Your skills and attributes for success: 

• Significant experience of business analysis using a range of tools and techniques
• Experience of coordinating and delivering complex process redesign initiatives
• Experience of coaching and coordinating teams of Business Analysts
• Excellent relationship building and engagement with a wide variety of stakeholders 
• Experience with Project software (e.g., MS Visio, Miro, JIRA)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Detail-oriented but with a strategic mindset
• Excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

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