Hmrc Higher Statistical Officer - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - HM Revenue and Customs

HM Revenue and Customs

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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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- £35,092 - £37,725

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Higher Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
HMRC
Customer Service
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HMRC

Trade Statistics and Customs Analysis Team
Type of role:

Analytical
Statistics
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
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Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle Upon TyneAbout the job

Job summary:

Discover a career in your hands at HMRC.

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Are you looking for a new challenge to stretch your statistical and analytical ability, as well as leading exciting projects?

Would you like to be at the heart of international trade statistics collection, production and analysis? This is very much the hot topic across Whitehall as we forge new links and partnerships with countries across the world following EU exit.

HM Revenue & Customs, Trade Statistics and Customs Analysis (TSCA) is currently recruiting Higher Statistical Analysts to lead TSCA in achieving its objective to become a world leader in international trade statistics and providing support to UK government in evidence-based policy making.

TSCA is responsible for producing National Statistics relating to UK international trade in goods, leading on customs analysis and data insight to support UK policy and operational performance measures for trade and borders.

Job description:

TSCA team is recruiting into 3 branches:
Publication & Delivery Branch (2 posts)
who are responsible for the production of key official statistics including the UK's Regional Trade in Goods Statistics (RTS). RTS is a quarterly publication which will give you the opportunity to train in producing official statistics. The work involves compiling, quality assuring, publishing, analysing, and presenting official statistics to wide range of users. The post will also give you opportunities to work with wide range of stakeholders including other Government departments. Additionally, you will be exposed to running analytical commissions in between the production cycles of RTS.
Higher Statistical officers in The Publication and Delivery branch are expected to be handson analysts responsible for carrying analyses for a diverse range of colleagues in TSCA or from other Government departments. You are expected to be an excellent team worker keen to learn from your colleagues and supporting others whilst rolemodelling Civil Service leadership behaviours. The role will also involve supporting production of other trade statistics related annual publications.
Analysis and Strategy branches (2 posts)
As a Higher Statistical Officer (HStO) in TSCA, you will be involved in supporting your line manager and colleagues across HMRC by running analytical commissions and compiling bespoke outputs using variety of trade data sources to support both internal and cross
Governmental policy making process

Person specification:

You will work on a breadth of projects which will require you to:
Produce official statistics publications, adhering to the principles set out in the Code of Practice for official statistics.
Support the delivery of highquality statistical advice and analysis given by self and or team.
Proactively engage early and often with the customers and stakeholders to share analytical results, and to discuss findings, taking data limitations into account.
Use the most appropriate methods and tools to deliver analysis, expertly adapting your approach as the need arises, to effectively manipulate a variety of data sources.
Share knowledge about data sources, data manipulation and appropriate innovations within own team or across business areas to build capability of others.
Have experience of, or the ability to learn, SAS analytics programming.

Essential Criteria:

Knowledge and experience of analysing data using SQL, SAS or similar software, which you can demonstrate through past work experience examples.

As well as:
- experience in a statistics related field, plus continuing professional development in a relevant area that leads to qualifications (for example the RSS Higher Certificate).

Or:

A 2:2 Degree in a numerate discipline such as mathematics, economics, psychology or geography. Your degree should contain some formal statistical training;

Or- A Graduate Diploma of the Royal Statistical Society or equivalent qualification.

Desirable Criteria:

Experience of using SAS programming language
- though formal and on-the-job tr