B3/HEO Data Analyst (unaffiliated analysts)
Are you an analyst that excels at bringing data to life?
Do you want to use your skills and experience to help deliver excellence for our customers and the economy, collaborating with colleagues from across the whole agency?
Are you looking for ongoing professional development, varied work and the opportunity to improve an organisation’s data literacy and maturity?
We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled and adaptable people. We provide comprehensive training, a collaborative, innovative environment that encourages continuous self and professional development.
If you are looking to develop your skills, work on challenging and rewarding data and analysis projects, shape solutions and contribute to new thinking, all with a great work life balance we would love to speak with you.
This specific advert is for people that not currently members of analysis professions. Those that are already members of analysis professions should apply via advert reference 376946.
The Analysis and Performance team supports the Insolvency Service with data, statistics and analysis. Our work provides senior leaders with evidence to support operational delivery, policy development and improving performance. As a Data Analyst in the Analysis and Performance team, you will work within a multi-disciplinary team alongside other data and analysis professionals.
You will collect, organise and study data to provide business insight. Working collaboratively with others in Analysis & Performance across a broad range of areas, you will understand, manipulate, and accurately analyse data, providing insight, briefing internal and external audiences in ways that make the complex easy to understand, particularly for non-specialist audiences.
This role provides exposure to strategic decision-making across all areas of the Agency’s operations and the corporate centre. You will work primarily with our Analysis Business Partners to develop and improve the team’s outputs to maximise the value we get from our data.
The team is on a journey to automate data flows and products, and build capability in analysis and data visualisation. You will play a key role in this and will have the opportunity to learn and apply skills in Power BI, R and Azure Data Platform.
Responsibilities
As a Data Analyst you will:
- Produce regular performance reports and dashboards by analysing data to create compelling evidence-based and actionable data stories to share with stakeholders to drive decisions.
- Help develop robust performance frameworks to support the understanding of performance and help drive performance improvement.
- Carry out thoughtful, challenging and constructive analysis of data, to support the understanding of performance and help drive performance improvement.
- Use a range of analytical techniques such as exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics, time series analysis and correlation analysis to identify and predict trends in data.
- Work with a variety of qualitative and quantitative data, ensuring data and analysis is of high quality and accuracy.
- Provide challenge and collaborate with other digital and analytical professions, to provide collective insights.
- Continuously improve processes and systems referring to the Analysis Function Standards for example, the Aqua Book.
The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.
Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives.We have 10 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability & Health, FACES Network Group, Grass Roots, LGBT+, Mind Matters, No Limits, Part Time Workers, The Shed, and Women’s Network Group.
We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.
The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career!