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Directorate: Core Services | Service: Business Intelligence
Salary: £42,839 - £46,142 Plus laptop
Working Arrangements: Hybrid
Hours per week: 37
Contract type: Permanent
We are happy to talk flexible working arrangements with you, please get in touch.
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Closing date: 03/10/2025 at 23:59
This post requires a Basic Criminal Record Check
Prospective employees will be required to give a reasonable account of any significant periods (6 months or more in the past 3 years) of time living abroad.
When applying, please ensure you are prepared to start work with all the necessary legal documents, such as a valid visa, relevant to the type of work you will be undertaking. Please be aware that our organisation does not possess a Home Office license and, as a result, is unable to provide sponsorship for anyone seeking a visa as a skilled or temporary migrant worker.
Pensions Regulations have provisions to reduce pension payments in certain circumstances of those who return to work within local government service. If you are in receipt of a pension upon commencing employment with the authority, this may affect your pension entitlements and you should therefore seek advice from the relevant Pensions Authority.
At Barnsley Council you can start a career that makes a real difference to people's lives, helping our council and residents to be the best they can be.
We're an award-winning council and one of the biggest employers in the borough, supporting around 243,000 people. We put people at the heart of everything we do, and that includes our employees. As part of the team, we offer lots of benefits and rewards to support you to thrive and grow, like flexible working, employee discounts, support for your health and wellbeing, and opportunities for training and development to grow your career and develop your skills.
There's so much happening in our thriving borough, and now's the perfect time to join our excellent Business Intelligence team as we work to make Barnsley the place of possibilities.
* We're an award-winning team and one of the biggest employers in the borough supporting around 243,000 people.
* Working at Barnsley Council means being part of a team that makes a real difference to people's lives, where you can develop the skills you need to make change happen.
* If you join the team you'll receive great pay alongside an excellent pension scheme. With flexible working we'll also support your work/life balance, helping you to adjust your hours and take time off when you need it.
* We'll help you to develop your career and grow your skills with opportunities for training and development.
* There's so much happening in our thriving borough and your talent and skills will help us make Barnsley the place of possibilities.
* Key to our success is working with our residents, partners, businesses and organisations and building these partnerships to bring about change in Barnsley.
About the Post:
Barnsley Council is a place of possibilities, and we are proud to be a double award-winning Council of the Year (LGC and MJ 2023), recognised for bold thinking, innovation, and delivering real impact for our communities. Now, we're inviting two talented and ambitious Business Intelligence Senior Analysts to join our BI service.
Why Join Us?
This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of data-led decision making in Barnsley.
We've been working hard as an organisation to ensure data is a recognised as a strategic asset and redefining how we use our data. To enable this, we've launched a new operating model for Business Intelligence. Our service is built on the principles of Enabling Barnsley-encouraging innovation, empowering services to self-serve, and allowing our BI experts to focus on high-impact work that delivers tangible benefits for our organisation and its communities.
We're not just about reporting - we're about predictive analytics, insight-driven continuous improvement and intelligence-led culture change. Our work has earned recognition from government departments and national bodies and we're proud to be seen as a centre of excellence.
We're excited to be moving to Microsoft Fabric in the coming months, unlocking new possibilities for single view and end to end analysis, automation and scalable insight delivery. Our team is already embracing Copilot and other AI driven tools, pushing the boundaries of what's possible in local government intelligence.
The role will include:
* Working with teams of data developers and analysts to lead projects that provide the best quality analysis and advice, extracting, integrating, and analysing complex data from multiple systems using advanced SQL
* Providing advice to senior leaders on strategic and operational performance management, identifying where performance insights can inform business decisions, drive improvement and shape future plans.
* Working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders to understand requirements in order to deliver complex pieces of work, gather insights and support the development of new mechanisms to assess impact and measure performance.
* Developing and presenting data visualisations, including analysis of key issues using tools such as Power BI, SSRS, Visual Studio, and Excel
* Producing high quality, user friendly reports and dashboards that display complex information and statutory data, including analysis that draws on a range of sources and uses the most appropriate medium to visualise data to tell compelling and actionable stories with clear recommendations to improve outcomes for local people and organisational effectiveness.
* Ensuring that performance management information is timely and robust and used to improve data quality, share insights and strengthen accountability across the organisation.
* Enabling data to be accessed by colleagues through the development of 'self-serve' capabilities.
Requirements:
* You are a proactive and analytical individual with a passion for using data to drive improvement
* Substantial experience of using data visualisation tools and specialist technical business intelligence solutions to provide information to a variety of technical and non technical stakeholders.
* Significant experience in conducting data quality assessment, data cleansing and data profiling techniques from multiple sources, to integrate and transform data
* You possess excellent communication and story telling skills, and able to tailor messages and deliver these to diverse audiences
* Experience of presenting information verbally at meetings, undertaking formal presentations and confident in using modern technologies and digital tools to enhance performance.
* You have strong interpersonal skills and can build effective relationship across the organisations in order to communicate complex information clearly to a range of audiences
* A level 6 qualification (or equivalent experience) in a relevant field
Deadline – Friday3rd October
Interviews – week commencing 13th October
For informal enquiries, please contact: Helen Richardson, Business Intelligence Manager at
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Please use the documents below to help support you with your application form.
Job Profile: Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
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Why work for us?
Please ensure you view the job profile for this role, as you will need to demonstrate in your application form how you meet the required criteria.
We welcome the opportunity to have a chat about the role and are happy to address any questions you may have about flexible working arrangements, including as a result of caring responsibilities.
We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued and everyone truly feels able to be themselves. If you have any support needs during the recruitment process, please let us know.
CV's are not accepted for this role.
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