Data Analyst - Finance Focus
Data Analyst - Finance Focus
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Job Description
Grade UE07: 40497 - 42882per annum
CSG / Strategic Change Service
Full-time: 35 hours per week
Fixed-term: 24 months
The Opportunity:
We are looking for a Data Analyst to join the Strategic Change Service within the Corporate Services Group. The successful candidate will be joining us at a critical time in our development and at the start of a new portfolio of strategic need someone who is happy talking to stakeholders at all levels of our business and find the right people in a complex environment. We need you to have the experience to ensure projects deliver quality but also to help us shape and continually improve how our team works.
As a Data Analyst you will be aligned to a couple of the Projects specifically focused around our Oracle platform looking at finance and HR data. The Data Analyst will be essential in ensuring that the data challenges are understood solutions are defined and delivered. You will also ensure that stakeholder expectations are managed across the full project lifecycle. The successful candidate will bring some excellent experience in data analysis particularly in the finance space. We need you to be good at sourcing and modelling data to provide options to solve business problems and meet reporting needs. But we dont just want an order taker we need someone who is happy to dig into the needs and truly understand the business outcomes that we are trying to achieve.
The data analysis capability is new to the Strategic Change Service so this role will be key in developing our ways of working within our team. Along with our Senior Data Analyst you will support the development of standards for how we perform data analysis going forward.
We are an expert team of professionals advising coordinating supporting and co-producing strategic initiatives and improvements in partnership with our colleges and services and their constituent schools and departments. We are driven by a commitment to deliver positive outcomes that benefit those who work study and partner with the University.
The role holder will line managed by the Head of Business Analysis and will play a significant part in the delivery of a high-quality Analysis services to the Strategic Change Service Team and our broader University network of stakeholders who support the delivery of portfolio.
You can access information on our currentportfolioon our Strategic Initiatives webpage.
This role is hybrid but it is expected that this role requires 2 3 days per week in varying offices across our campus.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Significant experience of business analysis using a range of tools and techniques
- Experience of coordinating and delivering complex process redesign initiatives
- Experience of coaching and coordinating teams of Business Analysts
- Excellent relationship building and engagement with a wide variety of stakeholders
- Experience with Project software (e.g. MS Visio Miro JIRA)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Detail-oriented but with a strategic mindset
- Excellent leadership communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
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Application Information
Please ensure you include the following documents in your application:
- CV
- Cover letter
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary
- An exciting positive creative challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits such as a generous holiday entitlement competitive pension schemes staff discounts and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on ourstaff benefits page(opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits
Championing equality diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on ourright to work webpages(opens new browser tab).
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is 4th August 2025.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Interviews will be held during week commencing 11th August 2025.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
