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Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

Lloyds Bank plc
Edinburgh
3 days ago
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End DateMonday 20 October 2025Salary Range£43,803 - £48,670Flexible Working OptionsHybrid Working, Job Share, Reduced HoursJob Description SummaryBusiness Intelligence is changing – with artificial intelligence and Gen BI emerging to provide even more personalised self-service analytics across Group Finance. You’ll be a key team member as we evolve our delivery, bringing data to life through smart data preparation, fantastic visualisations or amazing prompt instructions.Job DescriptionKey DetailsJOB TITLE: Senior Business Intelligence Analyst – Fixed Term Contract until 31/03/2027****SALARY: as per pay rangeLOCATION: Edinburgh Princes ExchangeADDITIONAL LOCATION(S): Bristol Harbourside, Halifax Trinity Road, Leeds Wellington PlaceHOURS: Full Time, 35 hours per week****WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at leasttwo days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sitesThere are two vacancies available, one Northern based and one Southern (Bristol).About this OpportunityGroup Finance is central to Lloyds Banking Group and data is a key enabler to satisfying the needs of our internal and external customers. The Data Analytics team, within the Finance Platform, are empowering our customers through trusted data.Opportunities are emerging around us. Business Intelligence is evolving – from reports to dashboards, and now the new game changer - Generative Business Intelligence!The Data Analytics team works with end users across Finance to understand their data needs to support the business. We take their questions and provide answers in the form of amazing analysis, inventive data manipulations and logic, followed by clear data outputs – reports, dashboards or data storytelling.Our customers’ needs are diverse and wide. We support Finance across all of the Bank business Divisions. Consequently, we could use data from any system, for any product, and for any customer. We’re closely involved in the move to Google Cloud Platform and the construct of Data Products to control the data.We source, prepare and output the data. Where we’d previously have used a visualisation tool – Tableau or Power BI – we’re exploring how we can set up Gen BI to enable users to ‘ask questions’ to get their answers. This role helps the team establish and grow this capability, whilst still protecting the reporting we already have and the customers that serves.Why Lloyds Banking GroupIf you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.Day to day responsibilitiesYou’ll be part of a team across Edinburgh and Leeds/Halifax. We work to an agile fortnightly cadence. You’ll be assigned work – likely a small discrete piece of work or a component of a bigger project. Where necessary you’ll be buddied with another from the team as you learn new skills, new technologies and new data topics. At various points in the month you’ll support regular BAU data activities.We’ll help introduce you to customers to support their requirements and, where necessary, link you with other teams – whether that’s the Engagement team to provide progress updates, Data Management to help keep our data safe, or Data Engineering to support with any data you need.We’ll support your assessment and development of the data into customer outputs – as you bring it to life by creating intuitive stories, adding valuable insight, aiding their own jobs with new perspectives into their data.You’ll take responsibility for your own personal growth, but we’ll support you too – with any training, support, mentoring or guidance you need. We want to make Finance Platform a fantastic place to work – supporting our agenda on inclusion, growth and having fun – and there’ll be lots of opportunities for you to get involved, be seen and to make a real difference.What you’ll need****Team player – you’ll be amongst other highly capable data professionals. You’ll often work together and share what you’ve been working on. You’ll complete work that’s tasked to you and others will review this as you learn. You may seek informal coaching and training from the team too.* The team will work across multiple work tasks simultaneously. You’ll play your part by providing progress updates using JIRA and following an agile methodology.Data literate – you’ll ‘get’ data. You may have had formal roles with data in the past. You’ll certainly be able to show your extended interest in data and data storytelling. You’ll understand the power of strong data-led insight and have an appetite for learning and developing. And you’ll bring other banking or industry knowledge with a customer perspective.* You’ll work with customers to mature their requirements and then build great data products to drive insight. The team have recently built outputs for Finance and the Business to explain the costs of running our businesses.Great interpersonal skills – you’ll be comfortable liaising with customers and building new relationships across Finance. You’ll not know everything up-front, but the team will help you. But you’ll be confident listening to the needs of the customer and shaping solutions for them* You’ll have built strong relationships in the past and shown your value to previous teams. You’ll be ready to work with any of our customers across Finance.Growth and development – you’ll keep an eye on the future – your own, the Bank’s and the technology landscape. You’ll grow to understand the structure of Lloyds Banking Group and the role of Finance within it. You’ll help the team explore new opportunities to use data and technology. And you’ll be hungry to learn and develop yourself.* You’ll may have experience working on transformation projects or bringing new technology into your team. Our LBG General Ledger is migrating from SAP to Oracle, and the bank has a strategy to move most of our data for insight to a single Cloud platform.Super values and behaviours – and all the time you’ll show great values and behaviours – incorporating the Lloyds Banking Group Values of being Bold, Trust, People First, Inclusive and keeping Sustainability at the forefront of all we do. You’ll work to make LBG better and enrich your direct team and the wider team to be a great place to work* You’ll have examples of getting involved with wider initiatives. We have great local events, learning opportunities and groups bringing the team together on key focus areas.About working for usOur ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%* An annual performance-related bonus* Share schemes including free shares* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping* 28 days’ holiday, with
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