Senior Data Analyst

Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday, 8.30am – 5.30pm

We’re an award-winning, market-leading3PL specialising in high-qualityorder fulfilment and delivery services. ILG customers are premium brands, many in the beauty, fashion and wellbeing sectors. Our mission is to help them succeed. ILG is a people business – we invest in training and development, recognising and rewarding our people’s achievements and creating opportunities for them to progress within our business. So, if you want to develop an exciting career, learn from a friendly team and realise your full potential in a fast-growing company, this is the role for you.

The role

The Senior Data Analyst role is a senior position in the Finance Support Team, reporting to the Data Analyst Supervisor. You will support the finance function ensuring shipment data is accurately recorded and our customers are invoiced correctly. Working autonomously to tight deadlines this role requires a numerate, logical thinker who enjoys investigating and resolving variances. Responsible for ensuring data is processed and corrected on a weekly basis whilst identifying trends, highlighting process improvements and working as part of a larger finance function, providing support and leadership to the rest of the finance support team and in other areas as required.
Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Importing and manipulating large volumes of carrier data, and investigating variances arising between invoiced charges and accruals within our internal systems
• Validation of carrier charges against agreed tariffs and taking corrective actions where appropriate to ensure cost accruals and pricing to the customer is correctly stated
• Providing support to the Data Analyst Supervisor with managing the finance support team to ensure the above is achieved as a collective target, managing workload of the team and rolling out new processes as required
• Provide support and training to the Finance Support team
• Review and report on team targets and deadlines
• Participating actively in continuous process improvement projects, seeking ways to develop current working processes

Please note that this role will initially be based in Burgess Hill but will move to East Grinstead in 2026.

What we are looking for

• Strong working knowledge of Excel, including functions such as lookups, pivot tables and if statements
• Strong experience of manipulating data, reporting and problem solving in Excel
• Demonstrable experience of high levels of accuracy and attention to detail
• An effective problem solver who enjoys seeing tasks through to completion
• Enjoys working in process driven environment and becoming an expert in their field
• Ability to prioritise, manage own workload and proven experience of working to tight deadlines
• Able to work successfully as a team leader and as part of a team
• Knowledge of the logistics industry, reconciliation and previous experience dealing with couriers and industry suppliers is desirable but not essential

Job Application Requirements – We welcome your application and look forward to considering you for this role. Please note the following important requirements for all applicants:

• Right to Work in the UK & Basic DBS Check – You must have the legal right to work in the UK, (we are not able to sponsor you). If successful, you will also need to pass a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before starting employment. We use a third-party checking service for each of these, so you will need to provide them with relevant information if offered a role with us.
• References – We reserve the right to request two or more references, to cover the past five years of your employment history. Please ensure you can provide accurate contact details for each of your referees.
• English Language – You must be able to work in English; enough to fully understand spoken and written work instructions, follow health and safety guidance and participate in discussions with your manager or colleagues.

If you meet the role requirements, as well as the above, and are ready to take the next step in your career, we encourage you to apply.

Please be aware we will be considering applications as we receive them and arranging interviews accordingly. Depending on the volume of applications we receive we may close this advert ahead of the advertised closing date.

• Following successful probation period, opportunity for hybrid working in line with ILG policy up to 50/50 remote/office working
• Pension, Life Assurance, Healthshield Cash Plan and Discount Perks
• 22 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays) increasing to 25 days after 2 complete holiday years, with the option to buy/sell holiday
• Birthday leave
• Free on-site parking, with electric car charging at certain locations
• Range of employee awards
• Employee assistance programme to promote mental health wellbeing

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