Description
Job Title: Principle Data Analyst
Salary: £400 - £450 per day (Inside IR35)
Contract Type: 3 months with view to extend
Location: London (Remote working)
Industry: Insurance
Responsible for championing the MI Data Warehouse, Reporting tools and Data Governance capabilities. The Principal Data Analyst will work with business users in order to identify their data requirements for the data warehouse and reporting solutions, look at developing data governance capabilities while owning large pieces of delivery. They will lead the acceptance and user testing phases of projects and provide ongoing post implementation support. The Principal Data Analyst should encourage and support the other Data Analysts within the team.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Be aware of the Data Strategy in order to appropriately align effort with this direction
- Contribute to the development of the Data & MI team's direction and strategy in order to maximize value
- Positively promote the department and company as a whole, in order to maximize brand leverage and develop team profile
- Participate in internal meetings, as required, in order to share and develop knowledge and best practice
- Facilitate the design, development and implementation of a fit-for-purpose data solutions via small teams with little support
- Manage and respond to data related questions and enquiries, using available data tools and procedures and ensuring adherence to our defined processes and best practice guidelines
- Build and maintain strong productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure service delivery meets business needs
- Support the identification and documentation of data requirements for work
- Engage with third party suppliers, as appropriate, in the delivery of analysis to support business requirement definition
- Provide technical support to our end users on the use and application of data warehouse information and educate them in the usage of the reporting and analytical tools
- Deliver and maintain a capability that preserves the integrity of the warehouse and does not compromise data quality or the operation of the warehouse and reporting layer
- Ensure appropriate reconciliations are performed and where exceptions are flagged manage the investigation and remediation in a timely manner
- Operate appropriate data processes in support of monthly/weekly/daily loads
- Responsible for supporting the operation of an efficient and timely monthly close process that supports our customers user of EI for core reporting functions, as measured by take up and roll-out of EI across the business
- Lead and mentor Analysts in the team in the achievement of their objectives
- Lead the investigation and resolution of any data related queries/issues (in line with Data Policy), in order to produce accurate management information to enable effective decision making
- Keep up to date with data subject developments to promote continuous improvement within the team
- Support the technical aspects of Master Data Management (MDM) and provide the business lead in proactively resolving undefined data
Required Education:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
Preferred Competencies/Skills:
- Experience in designing full and complete solutions, producing specifications detailing solutions for approval by users and for technical use by developers and testers would be beneficial
- BI tools and experience in designing end user reporting solutions
- Experience using structured analytical techniques
- Experience within a data management environment with a hands-on business role or in an IT equivalent operational background
- Hands-on experience of database tools or languages (SQL/PL/SQL/Oracle/Sybase) and a wide variety of (large volume) data sources
- Previous experience in insurance, preferably Lloyd's based
- Solid experience in a customer facing/support environment
- Solid experience training end users in data usage
- Strong experience working with business representatives to identify and document business requirements
- Strong skills in the development and remediation of business/Data Governance processes and services
- Strong soft skills in the management of people
- Solid experience of working with a variety of methods and software tools to analyse and measure data