Data analyst

Randstad Delivery
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Last week
£15 – £16 ph

Salary

£15 – £16 ph

Job Type
Contract
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Posted
21 May 2026 (Last week)

Job Description: Business Change Analyst (Data Warehouse & Reporting)

Contract:5 months

Role Overview

We are seeking a Business Change Analyst to support the delivery of a new enterprise data warehouse solution. The role will focus on gathering and documenting incoming data requirements, analysing business reporting needs, and ensuring alignment between business stakeholders, data teams, and technology delivery teams.

The successful candidate will play a key role in translating business requirements into functional data and reporting specifications to support strategic decision-making and operational reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Engage with business stakeholders to gather, analyse, and document data requirements for the new data warehouse.

Identify and define source system data inputs, transformations, business rules, and data quality requirements.

Analyse current and future-state reporting requirements across departments.

Produce functional specifications, process maps, data mappings, and reporting requirement documents.

Work closely with Data Engineers, BI Developers, Architects, and Project Managers to ensure requirements are understood and delivered accurately.

Support the design and validation of reporting outputs, dashboards, and KPIs.

Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, and requirement review sessions.

Assist with data validation, user acceptance testing (UAT), and change management activities.

Ensure traceability between business requirements, data models, and reporting deliverables.

Identify risks, gaps, and dependencies related to data and reporting processes.Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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