Senior Data Analyst

Forward Role Recruitment
Manchester
1 day ago
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Senior Data & Insights Analyst | 12-Month FTC | Up to £60K DOE | Hybrid (1 day per week) | Manchester

We're working with a well-established professional services business currently in the middle of a significant technology transformation. Multiple large-scale projects are running simultaneously creating a genuine and immediate need for an experienced data professional to come in and make an impact from day one.


This is a 12-month FTC and a brilliant opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys variety, and wants to work somewhere that truly values what good data and insight can do for a business.


What's in it for you?

  • Salary up to £60,000 DOE
  • Hybrid and flexible working: 1 day per week in office across any office including Manchester, Sheffield or Leeds
  • Real exposure to enterprise-level transformation across systems, processes and reporting
  • Health Cash Plan
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Life Assurance
  • Critical Illness cover
  • Group Income Protection
  • Pension — 5% employer / 3% employee contribution
  • Cycle to Work Scheme

Key Skills

  • Solid Power BI skills and a strong eye for how data should be presented to different audiences
  • Confident with SQL and comfortable working across relational databases
  • Familiarity with MS Dynamics and/or Power Platform environments
  • Experience in a professional services or sizeable corporate setting
  • Strong communicator — able to work with stakeholders at all levels and translate business needs into analytical solutions
  • A good understanding of data governance and data security principles
  • Some exposure to Python or R
  • Desirable: Databricks, Azure, or an interest in data science and AI

Day to Day

  • Designing and delivering dashboards and reports that give the business clear, usable insight
  • Getting under the skin of what stakeholders actually need and building solutions that answer the right questions
  • Contributing to systems rollout activity — user behaviour analytics, data quality monitoring and product reporting
  • Picking up documentation, testing and data transformation work as part of broader change programmes
  • Supporting and mentoring colleagues in the analytics team
  • Championing better use of data across the organisation and helping move the business towards more self-service reporting

Key Projects

  • Supporting the rollout of a new case management platform across the business
  • Contributing to a finance system upgrade including data migration and transformation
  • Ongoing cloud adoption — helping shape new reporting infrastructure as the business moves to modern tooling
  • Rationalising and improving the existing reporting suite to drive consistency and quality

This is 1 stage interview process, and they’d like someone to start ASAP.


Interested? APPLY NOW or email


*This is a 12 month FTC not a day rate contract*


Senior Data & Insights Analyst | Professional Services | 12-Month FTC | Up to £60K DOE | Hybrid ( 1 day pw) Manchester / Sheffield / Leeds / London


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