Data Analyst
Castle Point Borough Council
Temporary, Full Time
£350.00 per day umbrella
Location: Castle Point
Closing Date: 17th January 2025
Why Castle Point? Castle Point Borough Council is a statutory body responsible for employing nearly 350 staff, and delivering over 150 council services, both statutory and for the community's well-being and benefit. Castle Point Borough Council aims to provide high-quality and financially sustainable services while prioritising outstanding customer service, transparency in decision-making, and promoting local democracy. Additionally, the council seeks to transform, modernize, and improve its performance, as well as support and enable the communities within its jurisdiction to be strong, healthy, and thriving.
Our values: Trust, Respect, Improving and Learning, and Customer Focus
The Opportunity
This is a temporary opportunity for an experienced Data Analyst to join the council on a 6-month contract. This is a key role that requires candidates who enjoy working at pace within a team-based environment. The role is being offered on a hybrid working basis with the requirement of 2 day a week on site.
Accountabilities
- Partner closely with stakeholders to deliver in-depth, actionable insights
- Conduct advanced analyses on large datasets
- Make data-driven recommendations to improve products, processes, and services
- Maintain a high standard of data quality
- Create insightful and impactful dashboards and reports using Pentana and other systems
- Report bugs and support functional signoffs
- Conduct advanced data analysis on large datasets
- Partner closely with stakeholders to deliver actionable insights
- Make data-driven recommendations to improve products, processes, and services
- Stay updated on new tools, technologies, and methodologies
The Experience You Will Bring
- A degree with Experience as a Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst or a similar role
- Strong experience in MySQL for querying, managing, and optimising databases
- Ensure high standard of data quality for all data used in operations or analysis
- Strong communication skills to share insights and collaborate with the wider team to support business objectives
- Knowledgeable in using statistical methods to enhance data analysis and interpretation
- Experience with server-side scripting languages like PHP or Python
- Capable of supporting and mentoring others
- Ability to analyse data and provide operational and strategic insight
- Ability to align data requirements to necessary outputs
Castle Point Borough Council is proud to be a disability confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.
Castle Point Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email louise.butler@essex.gov.uk