LIONS - Lead Data Quality Analyst

at  Ascential

We’re looking for a Lead Data Quality Analyst to join our team in London as part of our Data and Insight function.
Your Role: You take ownership of our data and maintain high levels of data integrity to ensure business decisions are made using accurate data. You will work closely with the Commercial, Awards, Content, Advisory teams to unlock the commercial potential of the rich data held by Lions.
You will be the guardian of our data integrity. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the completeness, accuracy and consistency of our data is maintained to enable effective decision making to drive business value

Key Responsibilities

• Data Quality Ownership – Own the data quality processes to ensure the highest level of data integrity is maintained across business critical data
• Data Quality Assessment and Monitoring – Build capabilities to analyse business data to identify and assess data quality issues in relation to completeness, accuracy and consistency.
• Data Cleaning – Implement strategies and techniques to clean data that falls below our agreed threshold.
• Data Quality Standards – Implement data quality standards to ensure data accuracy is maintained. Understand the data flows to identify issues in the process, to be resolved
• Reporting & Documentation – Be transparent by creating Data Quality reports to be shared with stakeholders, showing the outcomes from the Data Quality assessment and monitoring.
• Collaboration – Partnering with all the relevant teams to ensure data integrity is on everyone’s agenda.

Your Experience

• Attention to detail to ensure the data quality is maintained to the highest standards
• Experience in SQL, BigQuery and Looker
• Ability to analyse trends in data and perform root cause analysis to understand where the data is being corrupted
• Excellent communication skills, able to simply communicate complex analysis
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and adapt to shifting priorities and work calmly and with accuracy under pressureExperience of working with large datasets

If you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still encourage you to apply. At LIONS, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role we would still like you to apply.
Who are we?
LIONS Division showcases global best practice in creativity, effective and impactful marketing. We set the global benchmark in creative and effective marketing and, through our insight and advisory services, enable brands and their partners to reach and exceed it.
We provide a suite of solutions that connect, inform and unlock potential for people and businesses, covering events, intelligence, training and advisory services. Our five-day Festival in Cannes, France is the meeting place for the global marketing community and a celebration of the world’s most excellent and effective work.
LIONS Division is part of Ascential plc. Ascential takes the world’s leading brands to the heart of what’s next for their industries. We do this through our events, intelligence products and advisory services. Our 700 people serve a global customer base from more than 100 countries in the large and growing Marketing and Financial Technology sectors. Ascential plc is listed on London Stock Exchange.
Why Choose Us?
Two divisions. Three continents. One great culture.
We strive for the highest standards in everything we do. But that’s not just for our customers. We want working for Ascential to be the best career move you’ve ever made.
Ascential is a people-powered company, and we’re committed to supporting each and every one of them. We publish an annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Report that sets out our goals, commitments and progress so far. We invest in Employee Groups, empowering them to run educational events, support charities that they’re passionate about, and share experiences with colleagues. These groups include Able to Thrive, Ascential Pride, Black in Business and Empower Women’s Network. And our inclusive recruitment practices and early talent programmes help us to bring curious, passionate people from every walk of life into our team.
We’re committed to ensuring that the impact of our business on our environment - and the communities we operate in - is a positive one. That means making sure that each event we run is the most sustainable it’s ever been. We also default all of our pension plans to ESG options, so that our people’s savings are invested in ways that help rather than hinder our planet.
Helping people to connect and drive progress isn’t a business-only goal. We know that the world is a better place when we all lead with heart, supporting charitable causes that make a difference. We provide opportunities to give back through Volunteer Days, our Employee Groups and our charity partner, The Prince’s Trust.
We value output, not hours. Most of our roles ask for 1-2 days a week in your nearest office. But if that’s not possible for you, let’s talk. Flexible work conversations are actively encouraged here, and always will be.

Only you know what’s most important to you. That’s why we offer benefits packages that you can tailor to your needs. These include:

• 25 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/ sell upto 5 days
• Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection
• Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance, Critical Illness and the Ascential Shares Scheme
• Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme
• Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options
• Great learning and development opportunities.

We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.
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• Data Quality Ownership – Own the data quality processes to ensure the highest level of data integrity is maintained across business critical data
• Data Quality Assessment and Monitoring – Build capabilities to analyse business data to identify and assess data quality issues in relation to completeness, accuracy and consistency.
• Data Cleaning – Implement strategies and techniques to clean data that falls below our agreed threshold.
• Data Quality Standards – Implement data quality standards to ensure data accuracy is maintained. Understand the data flows to identify issues in the process, to be resolved
• Reporting & Documentation – Be transparent by creating Data Quality reports to be shared with stakeholders, showing the outcomes from the Data Quality assessment and monitoring.
• Collaboration – Partnering with all the relevant teams to ensure data integrity is on everyone’s agenda