Business Intelligence Analyst
Location: Agile (1 day per week at Middle Engine Lane)
Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference?This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Corporate Development Department as a Business Intelligence Analyst.
Our Business Intelligence team is transforming how Northumbria Police access and use data.
We are looking for someone with excellent analytical and communication skills; with the ability to build rapport and understand the needs of internal customers, make the best use of data and analytical methods, and then effectively communicate findings to inform business decisions.
What you’ll do- Provide advice and guidance to stakeholders at all levels across the organisation to identify creative, analytical solutions that support effective data-led decision making.
- Use knowledge and understanding of statistical and other analytical approaches to deliver high quality products that bring substantial business benefit.
- Extract, manipulate and interrogate data to obtain insight; building, validating and testing analytical models.
- Design and build Qlik Sense interactive dashboards; enabling the organisation to use data to gain insight, identify trends and areas for improvement.
- Contribute to the evaluation of force business change initiatives through the analysis of information and research.
- You will be responsible for Qlik scripting, ideally with experience of optimisation and Qlik security model.
- Highly numerate, ideally including statistical experience.
- Proven experience in data analysis, data modelling and data visualisation.
- Experience of using advanced concepts – probability, statistical analysis, operational research, predictive modelling and mathematics and programming.
- Proven planning and dependency management skills including the ability to prioritise across multiple complex work-streams and initiatives.
We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact Joanne Ishida, Corporate Development Manager, by email at joanne.ishida@northumbria.police.uk
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Business Intelligence Analyst with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by an interview and an exercise. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process.Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a 6-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.