Senior Data & Analytics Strategy Analyst

Senior Data & Analytics Strategy Analyst

Location: Edinburgh

Salary : £42,120 to £46,800

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Minimum of 2 days a week in the office

About this opportunity

This is your chance to apply your experience and knowledge of data disciplines to help shape the data culture within our organisation.

As a Senior Data & Analytics Strategy Analyst you'll grow and learn in an environment that recognises the importance of data and the value it can bring to an organisation. This is crucial work, ensuring we have accurate, complete and consistent data that we can use with confidence to support our business decision making.

You'll take your place within our Payments Services Platform - a supportive and diverse community where we're passionate about collaboration and growing together. Here, you'll work with engineers and analysts to assure the quality of service data maintained on our IT Service Management (ITSM) tool ServiceNow. This data will be utilised to gain an understanding of our application and technology estate and draw insights into our efficiency and effectiveness at supporting the production service.

You day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Working with multiple business and technology teams across the organisation to assure data quality

• Interrogating and visualising data to drive insights and support strategic decision making

• Taking ownership of specific data-related problems and solving them

• Acting as an enthusiastic data advocate, promoting data management and governance

What you'll need

• Data Management & Governance: Applying data management policies and approaches to ensure data quality and foundations, reducing data risk, and providing integrated, trusted and timely data from which reporting and analytics can be performed

• Business Intelligence & Visualisation: Gathering, cleansing, analysing and developing visual representations of data to help explore, understand and communicate data, and performing analytics for informed decision making

• Collaboration: Working together and sharing information with, within and across boundaries, to achieve a common goal, thereby collectively maximising potential, at pace

• Problem Solving: Defining a situation that is difficult or undesirable, and then identifying and prioritising the best solution to fix it

• Impactful Communication: Engaging in an open, transparent and inclusive way through a range of communication methods

• Active Learning: Learning, driven by curiosity and desire, to gain new experiences

And any experience of this would be really useful

• ITSM Concepts: Exposure to ITSM tooling, such as ServiceNow, and an awareness of ITSM constructs and processes, such as application portfolio management, technology portfolio management, incident management, problem management and change management

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure that we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background identity or culture.

We were one of the first organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes. Just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

* An annual performance-related bonus

* Share schemes including free shares

* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

* 28 days holiday with bank holidays on top

* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?

Apply today and find out more.