B3/HEO Data Analyst (badged analysts)

at  Insolvency Service

JOB SUMMARY

Are you an analyst that excels at bringing data to life?
Do you want to use your skills and experience to help deliver excellence for our customers and the economy, collaborating with colleagues from across the whole agency?
Are you looking for ongoing professional development, varied work and the opportunity to improve an organisation’s data literacy and maturity?
We are looking for enthusiastic, skilled and adaptable people. We provide comprehensive training, a collaborative, innovative environment that encourages continuous self and professional development.
If you are looking to develop your skills, work on challenging and rewarding data and analysis projects, shape solutions and contribute to new thinking, all with a great work life balance we would love to speak with you.
This post is open to all, including those that are already badged members of one of the analysis professions, for example statistics, operational research or social research.
This specific advert is for people that are already members of analysis professions. Those that are not members of analysis professions should apply via advert reference 377015.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Analysis and Performance team supports the Insolvency Service with data, statistics and analysis. Our work provides senior leaders with evidence to support operational delivery, policy development and improving performance. As a Data Analyst in the Analysis and Performance team, you will work within a multi-disciplinary team alongside other data and analysis professionals.
You will collect, organise and study data to provide business insight. Working collaboratively with others in Analysis & Performance across a broad range of areas, you will understand, manipulate, and accurately analyse data, providing insight, briefing internal and external audiences in ways that make the complex easy to understand, particularly for non-specialist audiences.
This role provides exposure to strategic decision-making across all areas of the Agency’s operations and the corporate centre. You will work primarily with our Analysis Business Partners to develop and improve the team’s outputs to maximise the value we get from our data.
The team is on a journey to automate data flows and products, and build capability in analysis and data visualisation. You will play a key role in this and will have the opportunity to learn and apply skills in Power BI, R and Azure Data Platform.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• You will be assessed against the HEO criteria for your analysis profession.

Benefits
Alongside your salary of £34,399, Insolvency Service contributes £9,965 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We want you to have a good work-life balance and want to support you in all that you do, so we offer a great benefits package including:

• flexible working arrangements and flexi-time
• full time new entrants to the Civil Service and those Civil Servants on modernised terms and conditions will be entitled to 25 days leave increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• in addition to this you are entitled to 8 public/bank holidays plus an additional day of privilege leave
• competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
• 5 days paid leave for learning and development
• 5 days paid for volunteering
• a Cycle to work scheme
• staff have access to an employee assistance programme, Workplace Wellness, for confidential, independent support and advice during difficult times in either their professional or personal life
• a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of at least 28.97%

Your pension is a valuable part of your total reward package where the employer makes a significant contribution to the cost of your pension. Your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken. This means, if you pay tax, your take-home pay will not be reduced by the full amount of your contribution; and your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire. For more information, visit www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk
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SELECTION PROCESS DETAILS

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete 750 words personal statement, technical skills and behaviours. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Your personal statement should be no more than 750 words and should explain how you meet the requirements in the job description and person specification. Please tailor your statement to show how you have used your skills as an analyst to support decision making or generate new insights from data. Please specify your membership of an analysis profession.
Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using the Personal Statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to interview.
We will test your behaviours, and experience as part of the sift process, and if successful, you will be invited to a short interview where we will test your behaviours and technical skills. Full details of the selection process will be made available to shortlisted candidates once the sift has been completed.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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TYPE OF ROLE

Analytical
Architecture and Data
Business Management and Improvement
Digital
Operational Delivery
Operational Research
Social Research
Statistics

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Data Analyst you will:

• Produce regular performance reports and dashboards by analysing data to create compelling evidence-based and actionable data stories to share with stakeholders to drive decisions.
• Help develop robust performance frameworks to support the understanding of performance and help drive performance improvement.
• Carry out thoughtful, challenging and constructive analysis of data, to support the understanding of performance and help drive performance improvement.
• Use a range of analytical techniques such as exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics, time series analysis and correlation analysis to identify and predict trends in data.
• Work with a variety of qualitative and quantitative data, ensuring data and analysis is of high quality and accuracy.
• Provide challenge and collaborate with other digital and analytical professions, to provide collective insights.
• Continuously improve processes and systems referring to the Analysis Function Standards for example, the Aqua Book.

The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.
Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 10 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability & Health, FACES Network Group, Grass Roots, LGBT+, Mind Matters, No Limits, Part Time Workers, The Shed, and Women’s Network Group.
We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.
The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career!

We want you to have a good work-life balance and want to support you in all that you do, so we offer a great benefits package including:

• flexible working arrangements and flexi-time
• full time new entrants to the Civil Service and those Civil Servants on modernised terms and conditions will be entitled to 25 days leave increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• in addition to this you are entitled to 8 public/bank holidays plus an additional day of privilege leave
• competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
• 5 days paid leave for learning and development
• 5 days paid for volunteering
• a Cycle to work scheme
• staff have access to an employee assistance programme, Workplace Wellness, for confidential, independent support and advice during difficult times in either their professional or personal life
• a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of at least 28.97