Senior Performance Analyst
| Posting date: | 12 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | Bedford, MK42 9AW |
| Company: | Reed Talent Solutions |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | MaPS00606-293330 |
Summary
Senior Performance Analyst
c.£45,000 per annum
Bedford
Permanent
Hybrid Working
Are you a Senior Performance Analyst that has excellent analytical and problem-solving skills? Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) are looking for an experienced Senior Performance Analyst who is capable of presenting complex data to varied audiences. This role would suit somebody who comes from a business analysis background and has the ability to lead a team of analysts. Technical ability is also essential such as Advanced Excel and PowerBI.
The Money and Pensions Service vision is ‘everyone making the most of their money and pensions’. We are an Arms-Length organisation, sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions, with a joint commitment to ensuring that people have access and guidance to the information they need to make effective financial decisions over their lifetime. The organisation also engages with HM Treasury, which is responsible for policy on financial capability and debt advice. Working hand-in-hand with stakeholders throughout the UK, the Money and Pensions Service will ensure that money and pensions guidance is available to those that need it, adapting to people’s changing needs throughout their lives.
In this role you can expect to:
- Support the intelligent commissioning of services through performance management, analytics and data management
- Provide statistical analysis and data modelling using a wide range of tools and techniques on both internal and external datasets
- To provide data mining, modelling and visualisation expertise and leadership
- To interpret and communicate insights from complex data analysis in a meaningful and comprehensive way for both internal and external stakeholders
- To lead and manage a Business Intelligence executive
Responsibilities:
The Senior Performance Analyst will report directly to the Corporate Performance & Analysis Manager. In this role you will be responsible for the following:
- Identifying the analytical and data-modelling needs for projects and initiatives across the organisation
- Being an expert in data management, analysis and insight and ensuring the most effective use of tools and techniques available
- Providing analytic input to derive critical insight for strategic decision making
- Building and maintaining key relationships with internal and external stakeholders and delivery partners
- Establishing strong partnerships and advocating collaboration at every opportunity
- Pro-actively contributing to projects and initiatives across the organisation
- Working in a cross functional capacity with analysts across the organisation
This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of duties. The need for flexibility, shared accountability and team working is required, and the role-holder is expected to carry out any other related duties that are within the employee's skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed.
Experience:
You will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to present complex data to a wide variety of audiences
- Ability to analyse complex data, draw insight conclusions, produce reports and make recommendations to senior stakeholders and decision makers
- Ability to work with ambiguous, incomplete or missing data
- Experience of working with large geo-demographic and socio-economic datasets
- Excellent relationship management and communication skills.
- Experience of leading / directing a team of analysts
- Intermediate / advanced Excel: (Pivot Tables, Lookups, VBA)
- Experience in development, maintenance and usage of PowerBI (Desktop and Service) – or similar Data Visualisation platform
- Degree with a numerical or technical focus in mathematics, statistics or computer science and/or relevant experience in research and data analysis
If you’re already a MaPS employee, and as part of our Talent Strategy, we’re committed to strengthening opportunities for our people to learn, grow, progress, and thrive. For many of you, this may be preparing and applying for your next role with us, and we're passionate about ensuring you feel supported throughout your internal recruitment experience. Please get in touch if you want to know more about some of the ways in which we could support you by emailing recruitment@maps.org.uk
How To Apply:
To apply for this position, we kindly request that you submit a cover letter of up to 500 words. Give evidential points against the job description to demonstrate how you are closely aligned to the role and detail why you want to work for the Money and Pensions Service.
Information:
The Money and Pensions Service is based in Bedford and as a key employer in the town we work hard to ensure that we are an active part of the community. This is a great opportunity for you to join us in Bedford and to be an integral part of the Money and Pensions Service team.
We are already forging great relationships with Bedford Borough Council and other local organisations to ensure that we are an active part of the community and fully integrated to play our part in the Government’s “levelling-up” strategy. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to be one of the first colleagues to join us in Bedford and to be an integral part of helping us establish ourselves in the town.
At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people in and around Bedford to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves to our values: -
- Caring
We care about our colleagues and people whose lives we are here to transform. - Connecting
We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections. - Transforming
We are committed to transforming lives and make a positive societal impact.
About MaPS
At MaPS, we help people – particularly those most in need – to improve their financial wellbeing and build a better, more confident future. Working collaboratively across the UK, we make sure customers can access high-quality money and pensions guidance and debt advice throughout their lives, however and whenever they need it.
About our people
In our move to Bedford, we aim to attract and retain the absolute best talent, so we can achieve our objectives and continue to make a difference to millions of people’s lives. We are keen to encourage applications from individuals across the whole community with the skills, knowledge, and behaviours for the job, and who show a strong commitment to MaPS’ objectives, values, and vision. It is important to us that we continue our ambition to be a genuinely diverse and inclusive organisation, so that we reflect the people we are here to help.
Our inclusive working environment
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created.The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds.
We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”
By way of brief example, we have an enviable ethnic diversity mix, equal gender balance with a zero mean gender pay gap and thriving colleague and ally networks, including LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men's health, ethnicity, and diversity.
Information:
The Money and Pensions Service is based in Bedford and as a key employer in the town we work hard to ensure that we are an active part of the community. This is a great opportunity for you to join us in Bedford and to be an integral part of the Money and Pensions Service team.
We are already forging great relationships with Bedford Borough Council and other local organisations to ensure that we are an active part of the community and fully integrated to play our part in the Government’s “levelling-up” strategy. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to be one of the first colleagues to join us in Bedford and to be an integral part of helping us establish ourselves in the town.
At the heart of the Money and Pensions Service are our values – caring, connecting and transforming, which are the foundation of our success. They permeate every area of our work and define all our business relationships and the way we work with each other. We’re not only looking for the best people in and around Bedford to come and work for us, but we need people who align themselves to our values: -
- Caring
We care about our colleagues and people whose lives we are here to transform. - Connecting
We will transform lives through our ability to make positive connections. - Transforming
We are committed to transforming lives and make a positive societal impact.
About MaPS
At MaPS, we help people – particularly those most in need – to improve their financial wellbeing and build a better, more confident future. Working collaboratively across the UK, we make sure customers can access high-quality money and pensions guidance and debt advice throughout their lives, however and whenever they need it.
About our people
In our move to Bedford, we aim to attract and retain the absolute best talent, so we can achieve our objectives and continue to make a difference to millions of people’s lives. We are keen to encourage applications from individuals across the whole community with the skills, knowledge, and behaviours for the job, and who show a strong commitment to MaPS’ objectives, values, and vision. It is important to us that we continue our ambition to be a genuinely diverse and inclusive organisation, so that we reflect the people we are here to help.
Our inclusive working environment
By fostering our values, we are immensely proud of the inclusive working environment that we have created.The diversity of our people is a strength that we embrace and wish to build upon, so we are committed to attracting people of all backgrounds.
We work hard to ensure that we have a progressive approach to inclusion, equity and belonging. We really do want our colleagues to “bring their whole selves to work.”
By way of brief example, we have an enviable ethnic diversity mix, equal gender balance with a zero mean gender pay gap and thriving colleague and ally networks, including LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men's health, ethnicity, and diversity.
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