Principal Data Analyst - £400 a day inside IR35 - London/ Hybrid - 3 month initial contract
Overall Purpose of Job
As a Principal Data Analyst, a large part of your role will be to assist the Lead Asset Manager to develop and deliver the council's collections of data relating to our social housing stock. Working with colleagues across the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) Capital Programme you will be responsible for translating the requirements for data collection and developing a cleaning strategy and tools as the Programme transitions from Keystone to ServiceConnect. You will assist in identifying emerging and changing requirements and forecasting and future planning across the Housing Capital Programme.
You will play a leading role in planning and coordination in the Asset Management Team to implement processes and design to ensure all stock condition data is accurate and updated and to assist with the cleansing of current data. You will provide support and expert guidance to the Asset Management Team.
You will also be involved in the analysis and reporting of the data gathered through our system, producing analytical tools which allow for structured, replicable analysis which will fulfil the regulator's requirements to a range of stakeholders, to include dashboards and capture of KPIs.
The role is a critical to taking a data and intelligence led approach to supporting and forecasting the HRA Capital Programme. Overall, this role will:
- Manage and run data systems and provide data reports, providing specialist advice to colleagues, making use of a variety of data to measure outcomes, inform decision making and improve service delivery.
- Effective engagement and collaboration with key stakeholders resulting in adequate understanding of data usage and reporting requirements.
- Proficient use of Microsoft technologies including Excel and PowerBI to deliver timely, reliable, and high-quality reporting and analytical solutions.
- Generating actionable insights and implementing data governance frameworks and best practices that ensure compliance and mitigate risks associated with data management.
- Support the Lead Asset Manager through the delivery of relevant data tooling which aligns to the Asset Management Strategy.
- Contribute to the administration and configuration of the Data System to ensure data models are up to date and accurate.
- Deliver advances to improve efficiencies and reduce dependencies on individuals across the Housing Capital Programme.
- Provide ongoing support and guidance for stakeholders that enables them to leverage data and reporting assets.
- Use data to predict demand, flag issues, identify solutions, initiate new ways of working, and contribute to delivery of actions to resolve them utilising detailed knowledge to provide advice across services.
EXPERIENCE:
- Understanding and application of statistical techniques.
- Understanding and application of research methodology.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and understanding data architecture and migration.
- Experience of building and structuring detailed performance reports using IT systems.
- Experience of collating data, analysis and using performance management systems to inform service re-design and improvement to support complex projects.
- Experience of leading on complex technical data issues including research, policy development and legislation or service changes.
- Experience of working with senior managers to identify business requirements for automated business intelligence reporting.
- Experience of using Keystone, Northgate, ServiceConnect or similar systems
- Specialist knowledge of building reports using Power BI and publishing & managing apps/workspaces in the Power BI Service
- Experience of working accurately with attention to detail and producing clear accurate written reports on time.
- Experience of presenting performance management data in accessible ways using different formats to a varied audience.
- Experience of processing and storing data securely and sharing information in accordance with the data protection legislation, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
- Understanding and experience of delivering the Equality Act and the Public Sector Equality Duty together with writing Equality Impact Assessments
- Experience of prioritising work to meet deadlines, demonstrating high level interpersonal skills and ability to work well with all levels of staff across the organisation and externally, and as part of a team.
InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.