Data Analyst - Extend

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Package Description
Job Reference: 21063
Band:C
Salary:If a range is being advertised: £27,600 - £35,050 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Continuing/Permanent
Location: London – Broadcasting House - This is a hybrid role, and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

• Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
• Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
• Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.

This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either: the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010), or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.

We are committed to making the process of applying for this role as accessible as possible. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the application process, or have any questions about our Extend programme, please contact the BBC Extend team via the shared mailbox.

The BBC are fully committed to providing workplace adjustments to help eliminate barriers in the workplace that disabled people face. To do this, we have our own dedicated BBC Access and Disability Service that provides assessments and support throughout employment with us. If you are successful in applying for this role and require workplace adjustments, we will work with you to get your adjustments in place.

If you’d like more information on BBC Extend, please visit the BBC Extend webpage.

Job Introduction

We are currently recruiting for a Data Analyst to join our Business Information Team within the content division. Reporting into the Lead Data Analyst and working closely with a team of Data Analysts, the successful candidate will be responsible for providing accurate information and insight to the business, whilst also managing and coordinating a range of processes to support BBC reporting requirements.

Main Responsibilities

• Extracting and analysing data from BBC systems to prepare monthly reports.
• Producing ad-hoc report and data visualisation requests.
• Providing technical expertise and acting as a first point of contact for analytics queries from non-data-oriented colleagues, whilst also providing guidance on where analysis can help them with their day-to-day roles.
• Undertaking data quality checks on business data from various sources within the BBC, to ensure the timeliness, accuracy and quality of data within our reporting systems.
• Develop an understanding of BBC Content’s current systems and workflows, making suggestions on the constant need for process improvement; based on day-to-day observations and participation in structured projects as required.

Are you the right candidate?

• Passion for and demonstrable work experience in data analysis.
• High attention to detail and practical experience of analysing complex and confidential information.
• Ability to use and experience of data visualisation tools to create charts and dashboards (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, etc.).
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills – including Pivot Tables, Graphing, Complex Formulae.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Understanding of one or more data scripting language such as Python, SQL, VBA.

About The BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution

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