Senior Data Analyst
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Role title: Senior Data Analyst
TPR grade & pay group: R&O 8 - specialist
Directorate: Strategy, Policy and Analysis (SPA)
Starting salary: Salary from £52,611 per annum, dependent on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Brighton/hybrid (6 days per month in the office)
Responsibilities
Do you have a strong passion for using analysis and evidence to influence policy and regulatory decisions? If so, you will support the delivery of better saver outcomes through impactful evidence, research, and analysis.
You will be responsible for delivering analytical projects across a range of regulatory areas. Examples of the type of work you may deliver include:
- Helping TPR understand the future size and shape of the Defined Benefit and Defined Contributions pensions landscape.
- Undertaking analysis to support new policy and regulation implementation (e.g., the Value for Money framework).
- Developing new statistical publications.
As TPR’s regulatory needs evolve, you will flexibly pivot to focus on new work areas.
We are looking for collaborative analysts comfortable working with stakeholders across TPR. You will also work with junior analysts, providing leadership and guidance on scoping projects and analytical delivery.
Role Criteria
- Proactive and flexible.
- Problem solving and analytical skills.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Personable and a team player.
- Ability to prioritise and use initiative.
- Postgraduate education in a relevant subject (e.g., numerical or subject with a significant component of statistics) or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience in using own judgement to define and deliver analytical projects and develop insights in a regulatory or policy environment.
- Strong communication skills to explain how analysis and evidence can inform regulatory strategy and operations.
- Experience of developing analysis in collaboration with stakeholders and working effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Proficiency in R or Python.
- Experience handling large datasets and at pace understand the structure of complex data warehouses, and assess data limitations.
- Knowledge and understanding of the UK pensions industry.
- Practitioner level knowledge of Git.
- AzureDevOps, and AGILE or Dev / DataOps workflow methodologies.
Team
The Strategy, Policy, and Analysis directorate plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of the pensions market by developing a regulatory framework that enables market innovation, and for strategic development and implementation across TPR.
As our creative engine, it brings together strategy, policy, economics, external risk, and analysis, and user insights generated from our colleagues in Compliance & Enforcement Group and Market Oversight, as well as external sources, to evolve our regulatory framework and best direct our resources towards mitigating risks and delivering good saver outcomes.
Reward and Benefits
We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime.
We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. The dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.
Our Culture
TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, prioritising people’s growth and well-being, offering learning, secondment and development opportunities, supporting flexible working, and fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us; we strive to give everyone equal opportunity to succeed.
Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park; they are two floors of a shared building facility and follow the government’s workplace design guide ensuring accessibility by design.
About The Pensions Regulator
With a career at TPR, you’ll join an organisation with real purpose and a diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact millions of people. We keep more than £2 trillion of savings safe.
Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with changes in the pension landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital for good decision-making and positive saver outcomes.
Applications
We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. Once the vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Current TPR employees who want to apply should first contact their line manager.
We welcome applications on a part‑time and job‑share basis.
Selection and interview
If you are shortlisted, we’ll contact you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application; however, due to the large volume, this may not always be possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, assume you have been unsuccessful this time.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities; candidates who declare a disability and meet the criteria outlined will be offered an interview.
Diversity and inclusion
TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, supported, represented and able to do their best work.
We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and identities to apply.
Further information
Please visit our website to learn about our culture, interview process and commitment to employees.
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email .
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