Lead Data Analyst

Job title: Lead Data Analyst (12 month FTC)

Location: Edinburgh, Leeds, Bristol

Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 DOE

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at any of our above offices.

About this opportunity:

In a sector seeing unprecedented changes brought about by shifts in technology, changing customer preferences and evolving regulatory environment we're adapting, innovating, and responding at pace to become the best bank for customers.

Our Insurance, Pensions & Investments (IP&I) division has a strong heritage of protecting what our customers’ value and helping them to plan for their futures. We're a leading provider of home insurance, pensions and retirement planning and operate under iconic brands such as Halifax, Lloyds and Scottish Widows.

The Data & Analytics team is a multi-disciplined team of about 80 colleagues sitting within the IP&I COO team. Our roles range from Data Governance and Management to Data Science, developing Business Insight and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) using a variety of data platforms to provide the services our business needs.

As a Lead Data Analyst, your role is instrumental in delivering rapid data analysis to advise critical decisions. Your purpose is to decipher sophisticated data, uncover trends, and deliver actionable insights to customers. With your deep understanding of people and processes, you play a pivotal role in optimising IP&I management strategies and contributing to the bank's operational excellence.

What you’ll be doing:

• Your foremost responsibility is Data Analysis and Interpretation. You extract, clean, and transform IP&I data, deriving relevant insights to drive evidence-based decision-making.
• Build different products for data use cases collaborating with Data visualisation and Data Science teams.
• You'll engage with teams, business leaders, and multi-functional partners to comprehend their data needs, ensuring your analyses align with their objectives and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• You'll provide Rapid Insights Delivery. Analysing data at pace equips internal customers with timely information for informed choices.
• Supporting continuous improvement by refining analytical methodologies and data quality.
• Extract insights from IP&I datasets, identifying trends, anomalies, and opportunities for optimisation.
• Transform complex IP&I data into clear, concise, and actionable insights, aiding internal customers' decision-making processes. Generate reports, presentations, and visualisations that optimally convey data-driven insights to non-technical stakeholders.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too!

What you’ll need:

• Data Analysis: Proficiency in conducting detailed and efficient data analysis using tools including SQL.
• Stakeholder Engagement: experience of collaborating optimally with teams and Senior business stakeholders.
• Rapid Insights Delivery: proven track record of swiftly transforming data into actionable insights, meeting fast-paced business demands.
• Data Warehousing: Familiarity with concepts and tools with exposure to Insurance domain and/or Cloud environment.
• Leading a team: Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment managing a team of Analysts.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares!
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.