We are currently looking for a Business Data Analyst for our public sector client in Glasgow to work in their Financial Analysis team.
* Salary: £49-57K
* Annual Leave: 41 Days
* Pension: Generous Public Sector Pension
* Work Type: Hybrid, 2-3 Days in the Office
Duties Include:
* Develop and maintain complex financial models to forecast benefits including cost avoidance, efficiency gains, return on investment, user experience and student satisfaction amongst others.
* Partner with our Planning Insight & Analysis function to understand historic data/performance and identify key trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
* Prepare and present detailed financial reports and dashboards to senior management, providing actionable insights and recommendations.
* Collaborate with stakeholders to understand projects from concept to completion and create the relevant business case and performance metrics at each stage.
* Deploy good interpersonal skills including negotiating, motivating, influencing, and building credible relationships with stakeholders.
* Provide specialist advice and guidance to translate business requirements into tangible, measurable outcomes.
Essential Skills/Experience Required:
* Demonstrable ability to quickly understand and distil projects into measurable outcomes, being creative with data analysis to problem-solve given many projects have no like-for-like comparison within the institution as a baseline.
* Effective communication and presentation skills to interact with different types of stakeholders.
* Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish effective working relationships.
* Comfortable to manage and analyse large data-sets - for example experience with BI tools, extracting and manipulating data.
* Experience working as a Business Data Analyst within a large, complex organisation.
* Experience creating business cases, and doing options appraisal, across a number of projects concurrently.
* Significant experience of working with complex datasets, completing dataset reconciliations and translating into end user reporting.
* Demonstrable background planning and analysis role experience in a complex environment.
* Demonstrable delivery of insightful business information and reporting.
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