Senior Data Analyst

Nottingham Community Housing Association Ltd
Nottingham, United Kingdom
4 days ago
£40,620 – £45,726 pa

Salary

£40,620 – £45,726 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
29 May 2026 (4 days ago)

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

Senior Data Analyst

Nottingham

£40,620 - £45,726 per annum

Are you a Senior Data Analyst who wants your insights to genuinely improve services and customer outcomes?

At NCHA, data isn’t just reporting, it’s how we improve performance, shape services, and deliver better homes for our customers. As our next Senior Data Analyst, you’ll use your expertise in SQL, Power BI and data analytics to drive smarter decisions across the organisation.

If you’re passionate about turning complex data into meaningful insight and influencing real change, this could be the role for you.

About the role

As a Senior Data Analyst, you’ll take a business partnering approach, working closely with stakeholders to understand needs, design impactful reporting, and deliver insight that drives decision-making.

You’ll play a key role in developing performance reporting frameworks, dashboards, and data quality standards, while supporting the evolution of our data warehouse and business intelligence capability.

What you’ll be doing

  • Driving improvements in performance reporting - designing and enhancing frameworks, dashboards and reports to support operational and strategic decision making
  • Producing high-quality regulatory and benchmarking returns, ensuring outputs are accurate, timely and audit-ready
  • Developing and maintaining Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions, underpinned by strong SQL data extraction and transformation
  • Working closely with business teams to deliver customer-focused insight that supports service improvement
  • Driving data quality improvements, working with business leads to strengthen validation, governance and accountability
  • Translating complex datasets into clear, meaningful insight for customers
  • Supporting the development of data warehouse, BI tooling and reporting infrastructure
  • Managing and developing analysts within the team and deputising for the Information & Intelligence Manager where required.

What you’ll bring

Technical skills

  • Strong experience delivering management information, reporting and analytics
  • Advanced SQL skills and strong experience with Power BI and Excel
  • Experience working with or developing data warehouse technologies
  • Strong analytical capability - confident working with large datasets to identify trends and insights and problem solving

Skills & approach

  • You simplify complex data into clear, actionable insight
  • You build strong relationships and confidently influence stakeholders
  • You take a proactive approach - identifying opportunities and driving improvements end-to-end
  • You maintain high attention to detail, with the ability to work to tight deadlines, particularly for regulatory reporting

You’ll be innovative and willing to challenge how things are done, bringing energy, drive and a strong focus on making a real impact. You are also committed to NCHA’s values of Caring, Learning, Enthusiastic, Accountable and Resilient, and demonstrate these in how you work and collaborate with others.

Why join NCHA?

At NCHA, you’ll have the opportunity to use your data expertise to drive real decisions and improve customer outcomes, while playing a key role in shaping our data and analytics strategy. You’ll be part of a collaborative and supportive team environment, where you can influence how services are delivered across the organisation, alongside access to a competitive benefits package.

Ready to apply?

If you’re passionate about using data to improve performance and deliver meaningful outcomes for customers, we’d love to hear from you.

Interviews will be taking place at our head office in Clifton on Friday 26th June 2026.

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