Location: Greenford, West London (On-site) or Bow Road (On-site)
Type of Contract: Fixed Term (6 months Maternity Cover)
Working Pattern: Full-Time, 40hrs per week
Salary Range: £34,500-£40,000pa
Our Vision: Changing lives through education
GBS is a higher education provider offering a range of sector-relevant courses across ten campuses in London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. Working in partnership with several of the UK’s leading higher education providers, we deliver vocational, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in finance, accounting, business, construction, tourism, healthcare, and more.
Our Vision: Changing lives through education.
The role: The Data Analyst (Statutory Returns) reports to the Head of Statutory Returns within the statutory returns team. This team is a subset of the larger registry team, which encompasses various functions including planning statutory returns, providing training, and auditing the maintenance of student records.
In this role, the Data Analyst is tasked with proactive engagement both internally with staff and externally with key stakeholders. The role requires authoritative knowledge of statutory reporting requirements to regulatory bodies such as OfS, HESA, and others. Working with internal stakeholders, you will use your expertise to gather existing and/or new data and undertake analysis to provide data insights across GBS.
By applying appropriate analytical techniques, you will present your findings through written reports or intuitive, self-serve dashboards, empowering colleagues to understand the key metrics that drive performance throughout the organization.
Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this position.
What The Role Involves:
* Collaborate with a team to understand and analyse statutory business needs, comprehend data content, and contribute to new data projects from end to end, including gathering requirements for implementation.
* Working with departments across GBS to communicate the data collection requirements for statutory returns.
* Involved with the production of student related statutory external returns i.e Data Futures for the Office for Students and the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
* Extract, audit, prepare and collate raw data from multiple sources (from within and outside the GBS) and analyse, interpret and edit data to produce customised reports / statistics.
* Recognise erroneous data and escalate to the appropriate individual in line with company procedure.
* Where data quality issues exist; reviewing processes and liaising with the relevant teams to improve processes and prevent persistent issues from occurring in the future.
* Work alongside colleagues across the institution to help evaluate if processes relating to data collection are meeting statutory requirements and to monitor data quality (with regards to external returns) within the student records.
* Training of staff across the institution with regards to statutory requirements and how their areas of work feed into them
* Build positive relationships with other professional services teams and academic staff and to coordinate and liaise regularly with key stakeholders in designated departments.
* Monitor and assist in audits for data quality, data integrity and data governance
* Prepare reports for internal and external audiences using appropriate reporting tools
* Work with & support colleagues across the organisation, building new & improving the existing data dashboards, graphs and visualisations.
* Assist in preparation of HESA Student Record Submission (Data Futures), Graduates outcome and NSS Survey data to be sent via various portals.
* Maintain a good understanding of relevant policy and legislation in relation to information governance, security, and compliance
Essential Skills and Experience:
* A good degree in a numerate subject
* Previous experience of HESA-Student Record (Data Futures) Submission and data analysis would be advantageous
* Detailed knowledge of statistical techniques and research methodologies
* Confidence in building relationships with internal and external stakeholders, with the ability to communicate complex data capability in a way which fully engages them in the services the Data and Information team provide
* Good/Excellent knowledge of advance excel skills and analytical tools including Microsoft Power BI
* A good understanding of data and model design, joins and views are preferable
* To show initiative, curiosity and drive through your work, effectively prioritising tasks and managing these to deadlines
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Desirable Skills and Experience:
* Experience with R/Python/SPSS or Stata
* Experience in presenting data in exciting and insightful stories via interactive dashboards or presentations
What We Offer
* 25 days annual leave, plus 8 public holidays
* 1-day extra leave per year of service, up to a maximum of 5 days
* Workplace pension scheme
* Tuition reimbursement for career development courses
* Flexible Benefits: Cycle to Work, Workplace Nursery, Techscheme and much more
* Perks@Work discounts platform, wellbeing centre and much more
* Reward and recognition programme
* £500 award employee referral scheme
* Discretionary annual performance bonus