Data Analyst

Department: Business Services - IT

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Bristol

Compensation: £40,000 - £45,000 / year

Reporting to the BI Manager, this role will be the first point of contact for the end-to-end delivery of BI solutions services to our clients, our business teams and supporting services. The role is expected to assess current and future requirements expected of the BI team, achieved through a comprehensive understanding of our client’s strategies and priorities, our businesses products, organisation and operating model and the IT and data strategy.

The role will engage peer functions across client-facing and business services departments, and offer support and collaboration with stakeholders. The role balances organisational awareness with technical development experience, it requires practical application of business analysis and change management skills.

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• Working across the business to analyse new requirements and assess the impact on the business operationally and technically;
  
• Providing business analysis throughout the whole life cycle - requirements gathering, requirements analysis, writing functional specifications, development support and testing through to implementation and measuring business improvements;
  
• Building and maintaining key relationships throughout the business whilst working closely with project managers and stakeholders to deliver effective solutions;
  
• Acting as liaison between the business and technical staff;
  
• Key contact as a subject matter expert (SME) on BI systems, processes, services, and their link to wider Business Services and Client-facing teams;
  
• Support commercial tendering work, and the on-boarding of new clients into established IT and BI services;
  
• Identify continual improvement across the BI function, and engage appropriate resources to effect change;
  
• Report upwardly to BI Manager and IT Leadership team on performance, projects and initiatives;
  
• Is also willing to take ownership on any other tasks and responsibilities as required
  

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• Understanding and experience of legal business processes is highly desirable;
  
• Recent experience of business analysis, requirements engineering and process re-engineering;
  
• Strong analytical skills, able to think laterally to identify trends and make links between data from different sources;
  
• Solutions oriented and keen to take responsibility for delivery of effective solutions;
  
• Proficient with requirements capture and diagramming tools e.g. Visio;
  
• Experience of workflow, case management, management information and knowledge management systems;
  
• Excellent organisational skills together with an ability to ensure that tasks are delivered on time and to the required standard;
  
• Able to work under pressure as part of a team, prioritising a heavy workload and meeting challenging deadlines;
  
• A collaborative approach to working with others together with the willingness to take on additional responsibilities as required by the business;
  
• Knowledge of the following technologies highly desirable : SQL, SSRS, Azure Dev Ops;
  
• Experience of data extraction, migration, reporting and / or analytical projects.