Data Analytics Lead

Are you passionate about data? Are you an experienced data scientist ready for your next career move? Do you want to make a real difference to the public sector in Wales? If so, join Audit Wales as our Data Analytics Lead. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated person to be part of our energetic and innovative Data Analytics team. You will be confident in leading fast-paced, complicated data projects in an agile way. You will be skilled in maintaining relationships with stakeholders and you will be fully committed to working closely with users to understand their needs. And you will have a proven track record of managing teams and individuals.

Who are Audit Wales

Audit Wales is the independent public sector audit body within Wales. We hold a unique position within the Welsh public sector, where our role is to:

• Assure the people of Wales that public money is being managed well through our annual audit of public sector accounts.
• Explain how public money is being used and how it meets people’s needs through our Value for Money studies.
• Inspire and empower those with whom we work to continuously improve by sharing initiatives and best practice.

Working for us

Audit Wales is a dynamic and friendly place to work, with an incredibly supportive culture. We’re passionate about working with the Welsh public sector and making a difference to local communities.

We’re flexible

We work smarter, providing choices of how, when and where individuals and teams deliver their work – we trust you in making the right choice to deliver the task in hand while supporting you in your individual circumstances, be that caring responsibilities or managing disabilities. We also welcome a variety of working patterns, from full time, part-time and job share across the organisation.

We’ve got excellent terms

We genuinely care about our people and about providing an environment that encourages a positive work-life balance through our 35-hour working week, and our 33 days annual leave per annum (exclusive of public bank holidays). You can also purchase, sell, and put leave in the ‘bank’ to enable extended holidays.

We invest in our people

We’re advocates for personal and professional development and invest in our people to fulfil their career aspirations to be the best they can be. We offer a generous training package which is complimented by a blended approach of structured and unstructured learning.

We have excellent benefits

Alongside our generous salary package, we offer all employees opportunity to enter the Civil Service Pension Scheme which is considered to be one of the best employer contribution rates. Our staff benefits also include compressed hours, where you can compress up to 10% of your working hours over a two week period, typically this means working 9 days in 10, we also have an excellent cycle to work scheme, shopping discounts and the option to obtain a vehicle through our beneficial lease scheme among much more.

We’re proud to be accredited

Our excellent family friendly benefits and culture mean we are a proud Top Ten Working Families employer and have held this position for the past 3 years, we have also achieved Living Wage accreditation and recognise hidden disabilities among our workforce and with those whom we work alongside. We are growing a diverse workforce that is representative of the communities we work in and the skills, experiences, and perspectives they offer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We are also a member of the Disability Confident Scheme and guarantee to interview all disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role.

What it’s like to work in the Data Analytics team

Audit Wales’s data vision, Making Data Count, sets out an ambition for us to become a data literate organisation where good data is prevalent in our work. It aims to data-enable our audit work, saving time for auditors and improving audit quality by facilitating better decisions. And it aims for data-rich audit products to increase our reach to wider audiences, providing new depths of insight, and driving accountability, transparency and improvement in the public sector.

The DA team at Audit Wales is passionate about data and is responsible for providing expertise and leadership to drive delivery of the data vision. We work on a wide range of fascinating and innovative data projects, working closely in collaboration with our audit colleagues.

Our assessment process

If you are interested in applying for this role, please know your application will be sifted to determine suitability to progress through to interview and assessment.

The sift and subsequent interview and assessment stages will review the following criteria.

It would also be desirable for the role holder to demonstrate these criteria:

• An interest in artificial intelligence (AI), with experience of using AI models in their work.
• Experience of horizon scanning, demonstrating an ongoing interest in emerging technologies.
• Experience of using Microsoft Copilot, with a working knowledge of strengths and weaknesses

Find out more You can find out more about the responsibilities, skills and experience required for the role in the job description. For an informal discussion about this exciting opportunity, please contact Steve Lisle () or Helen Goddard ().