Senior Data Analyst
The Cabinet Office and HM Treasury operate at the heart of the UK government. These iconic departments are responsible for ensuring the effective running of government, maintaining control over public spending and working to achieve strong and sustainable growth for the UK.
The Cabinet Office & HM Treasury (COHMT) Commercial team has the vision to be a top-performing commercial function in government, setting best practices for others to follow. It offers a unique challenge to commercial professionals who want to work on some of the UK’s most important policy issues.The team partners with all business areas, providing a commercial service that covers planning, commercial strategy, sourcing and contract management on circa £1bn of third-party spend.
The COHMT Commercial team operates with our core values in mind, which are:
We are Curious, Collaborative and Kind; we act with Integrity and are Focused on value for money.
We are looking for a Senior Data Analyst to join our team, who will be responsible for developing in Excel and/or a programming language a wide range of data products to be used across the directorate and wider departments to support the delivery and transform the commercial service to the departments.
Role Overview
The Cabinet Office HM Treasury Commercial team has recently changed its operating model. It is now organised into spend category teams, supplemented by business partners and embedded commercial teams in specialist areas and programmes. The Directorate is supported by a central team, Commercial Strategy & Performance, responsible for the overall strategy and enabling functions.
You will be part of the Commercial Strategy & Performance team, enabling continuous improvement in commercial practices and adherence to Government Commercial Standards.
This is an excellent opportunity for a passionate and experienced Data Analyst to join a supportive and committed team and provide Management Information to help the directorate realise its vision of being a top-performing commercial function in government.
We are looking for someone ambitious, driven and curious about trends who knows how to collect and leverage data and will inspire others to use data to drive improvements.- This role requires an experienced professional with a solid analytical background who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
- To create optimised data collection and analysis systems to drive visibility, efficiency and data led decision making.
- Identifying opportunities for innovation in what and how data is used in the Directorate and leading on implementation and adoption.
- Applying data analysis tools, techniques and visualisation to develop and design reports to meet business needs and allow data-led decision-making.
- Extracting, cleaning, aggregating and manipulating data from various systems and sources to provide insightful and actionable reports to the CO HMT Commercial team.
- Leading the delivery of collecting data from various sources and systems, quality assurance to produce monthly reports to senior officials and CO HMT Commercial Boards.
- Working with various stakeholders to scope requirements for new management information products and drive continuous improvement.
- Leading data and analytical projects to support strategic priorities from requirement gathering to testing and implementation.
- Automating data management activities where possible.
- Contributing data and insights to papers and reports, including suggesting where data and data systems can drive more efficient data led decision making.
- Ensuring that the analysis is robust and communicated effectively.
- Choosing and employing appropriate statistical techniques and visualisation tools to deliver impactful analysis and engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Supporting the development of the CO HMT Commercial Contract database, ATAMIS, focusing on driving and improving management information.
- Leading initiatives to improve the data quality in the CO HMT Commercial Contract database, ATAMIS and other data sources.
- Champion and lead data innovation, using tools and techniques available to you (such as Atamis, PowerBi, etc) to contribute to a suite of analytics solutions that will increase the usage of data and draw out meaningful insight.
- Creating, developing and improving dashboards to transform data into valuable insight for Commercial.
- Supporting senior colleagues in raising awareness and understanding of commercial transformation in a broader departmental and functional context.