Job Title: Senior Development Analyst
Location: Solihull - Hybrid
Hours: Permanent - Full Time
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A bit about us:
At BNP Paribas Personal Finance, we’re part of a global bank and are proud to be a Top Employer UK, providing a great place to work in an open and inclusive environment.
We’re here to provide simple and straightforward consumer finance solutions and we work with many well-known retailers and brands to help their customers finance their purchases in a responsible way.
We care about making a positive impact for our colleagues, customers, partners, and the wider community. That’s why we live by our values of we're positive, we’re brave, and we own it.
Key Responsibilities
Development of new data extraction and reporting processes; ensuring that for each piece of work:
* A clear Brief (Terms of Reference) covering Objectives, Requirements, Deliverables, Timeframes, Milestones, Key points of interactions and Success Metrics are set
* Successfully delivering (on time, to scope and on budget); orientating each project / task to deliver maximum business benefit whilst adhering Data quality, Coding standards, Validation frameworks and documentation standards as set out by Data Office & Data Governance teams
* Ensuring any output (data, code, process) is aligned to the ongoing business strategies (i.e. future proofed)
Undertake a review and subsequently (where needed) redevelop, refactor & rationalise the legacy data and extraction & reporting jobs, code and processes
* Re-scoping, aligning and developing existing MI framework
* Designing & redeveloping those that bring the greatest efficiency improvements to the team
* Working with the recipient business units to ensure the new code meets their current business goals and is aligned to their future business plans
* Standardise routine processes for greater consistency, efficiency and control to deliver quality
Standardise routine processes for greater consistency, efficiency and control to deliver quality
* Review / create process documents that show key steps
* Review / create prototype programmes, reporting standards
* Incorporating appropriate check points, decision milestones, interactions
* Standardised central & standardised Reporting Folder Structure
People and Development
* Act as mentor/coach to more junior members of Data Office team
* Be a Technical Champion for data, SAS, SQL, Excel and all technical data & information related processes
* Identify any knowledge traps or single point of failure
* Identify opportunities to drive efficiency and cost reduction through effective use of resource, data & process automation
* Identify opportunities to drive efficiency and cost reduction through effective use of resource, data & process automation
Key Skills and Attributes
* Prior experience in working with large data sets in an analytics background.
* Knowledge of SAS, SQL, Python and other Data Tools
* Experience in managing projects with senior stakeholder involvement
* Creative / Innovative approach to problem solving