Head Of Data & Analytics M/F/D

Head Of Data & Analytics

£750-£850pd

London- (x2 Days in Office)

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are currently looking for dynamic individual to join our Data Practice as Head of Data & Analytics.

The Head Of Data & Analytics will understand the needs of the business and manage the team, take ownership of processes, develop an understanding of the outcomes and build out strategic data and reporting solutions for the business.

The role:

• Overseeing / leading a team Of Data analysts and data developers to build and maintain a suite of reports, dashboards and information assets that inform, satisfy internal and external stakeholders across the business.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with the executive leadership of the organisation. Work closely with leadership to support their Data needs.

• Confidently communicate at senior leadership level to provide clear messages about the team’s work and priorities, to listen to and understand the challenges being faced by the business, and to provide options for solutions

• Constant focus on satisfying business priorities in the most clear and efficient way.

• Provide challenge to the members of the team to enforce a culture of continuous development and improvement.

• Lead the team to deliver the highest possible quality of outputs and reports. Do this by defining clear and consistent standards for how reports and insights should be structured and upkept, how data should be interpreted and how metrics should be calculated.

• Design and develop the approach to organising, cataloguing and marketing data insights and reports. Make this the place that all users in the organisation go to find out what insights are available, how to access it and how to interpret the information within it.

• Work with developers within the business to bring their solutions into this central framework and clearly communicate the value it delivers to the business.

• Based on the needs of the business, determine the features and capabilities the tools and platforms use, need to have.

• Work with the technical experts to ensure that the best possible tools are procured and stood up in a way that enables us to deliver top quality output.

• Be responsible for developing and implementing a unified approach to tooling and best practice frameworks for use and implementation: having a strategy around which tools to use for what, and best practices around how tools should be used and how output should be delivered.

• Work closely with the wider D&A organisation and the technical teams that support it, to ensure that the end solutions being built and maintained by this team are informing upstream requirements such as data capture, architecture, data quality, data governance and data product builds such that manual workarounds, downstream fixes and other forms of technical debt are minimised in all reporting solutions that are built.

• Directly manage and develop the technical, administrative, and managerial skills of the Data Insights team through coaching, educational offerings, work assignments, and other developmental opportunities.

Key Skills and Experience:

To succeed in this role you will need:

• Significant and relevant experience in relevant roles preferably in the insurance industry

• Strong leadership skills – ability to lead a team and to unite them to deliver towards business objectives

• Exceptional communication skills – a key part of this role will be working collaboratively with business stakeholders across all levels of seniority and functions. Being able to communicate clearly to a variety of audiences and work collaboratively will be key to the success of this role.

• Have a deep understanding of how to effectively communicate messages through data and MI. Understand the appropriate structures for reports, metrics and visualisations to deliver maximum impact.

• Understanding Of Data management frameworks and AGILE ways of working.

• Technical knowledge around technology and tools used in support Of Data visualization preferred SQL, T-SQL, AWS.

• Ability to prioritise effectively, adapt as necessary based on business priorities, re-factor plans as required by changing priorities and communicate impact of changes to key stakeholders.

• Strong oral and written communication skills and proven ability to win confidence of business partners and influence outcomes.

• Strong ability to work with technical teams and multiple work streams with dynamic priorities

Our people

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

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