Data Analyst - York, United Kingdom - Candour Solutions

Description

Job Description

Data Analyst – Financial services – Hybrid York – up to £55,000 – Market leading benefits

This is an opportunity to join a leading insurance provider, that prides itself over exceptional business growth led by their talented teams. The team is the financial team within the business which consist of multiple business arms. Looking for a talented data analyst that has been immersed in financial data so far in their career to help them improve process and drive business growth. During their exciting technical and data transformation they are undergoing currently, joining this team means an opportunity to be using new technologies and processes, leaping your career forward and arming yourself with the best training and guidance to enhance your knowledge.

This is an ever-growing team with 2000+ people within the business and no signs of slowing down in their growth. This is an opportunity to join a team at the height of their success. In addition to a market-leading base salary, this team offers market leading benefits package plus fantastic bonus structure.

Benefits –

• 25 days annual leave plus two company days
• 4 week paid sabbatical after every 5 years of service
• Company and personal performance related bonus.
• Contributory pension.
• Money towards gym membership.
• Christmas gift.
• 4 x life insurance.

Technical job description and responsibilities

The focus for this role is to identify and analyse data issues or provide data support for new development of the core data warehouse and financial reporting solutions. The role requires 'hands on' investigation of technical data and will involve working closely with internal and external delivery teams, infrastructure, and 3rd party application teams to support. There will also be an element of development for their reconciliation and reporting environments. You will be responsible for the analysis, root cause and solution definition processes which will require you to:

• Conduct data interrogation activities across several SQL data instances

• Produce high quality deliverables, including materiality analysis and defect stories

• Build strong productive relationships with the business, IT teams and external 3rd parties to leverage their knowledge and skill to assist in your analysis

• Act as a focus for questions related to business usage of systems within your sphere of influence.

• Support the system and UAT test teams, helping with understanding of the change and reviewing test cases to ensure full coverage

• Support the on-going development of the Data Analyst function, having input to the standards, procedures, and knowledge transfer processes

• Adheres to the IT System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) standards and methodology and support delivery activities of full project life cycle, from inception to BAU handover

About you – skills and Experience

An Established data analyst

Due to the nature of the position, and the requirements from the get-go, the successful applicant will have a recent history of working as a Data analyst or data professional at a mid-level, that have been exposed to and used the following processes.

• MS SQL and AZURE
• Solution design
• Data warehousing
• Business intelligence
• Data Quality
• Speak with stakeholders, explaining technical issues to non-technical stakeholders with ease.
• Data preparation tools used such as Alteryx, SSIS, ADF or MS power platform

The role will be working with multiple streams of financial data in a data warehouse, this must be evident in your previous recent experience.

Interested? Apply today Interviews will be conducted ASAP.

Please note:

• Our client is not able to offer sponsorship for this position.
• This is a hybrid role, and applicant from the surrounding areas will be considered at this time, please ensure you are able to commute to York within an hour for this position
• We are experiencing a high number of applications, we will contact you as soon as we can regarding your application.