Lead Insight Analyst – Savings

Location: Bradford, Petersfield, London Or Chatham

Working Pattern: Our working style is hybrid, but we recognise the importance of collaborative working with our working with our colleagues often 2 days per week in one of our offices . More office-based working may be required during project rollouts or when we have a higher number of users in the office.

Benefits: Discretionary annual bonus, 25 days holiday up to 30 days (depending on service), pension scheme with matched company contributions up to 10%, 1 paid day to ‘give back’

Don’t hesitate to apply for a role even if you don’t meet all the criteria; your unique strengths and eagerness to learn can be just as valuable.

You and Your Team:

As a Lead Analyst, you will play a key role in developing the practices and supporting the development of the Bank’s savings business and providing management information (MI) that enables decision making at a strategic level.

Savings is a critical aspect of the Bank and Group funding plans, and this role is highly visible within Vanquis Banking Group Customer and Treasury teams.

In your day-to-day role, as a Lead Insight Analyst - Savings, you will:

• Apply critical thought processes in analysing data for accuracy and completeness, cleansing as necessary to ensure it remains fit for purpose.
• Drive continuous improvement to the design and creation of savings MI utilizing own initiative and committee feedback.
• Demonstrate independent thought and analysis to help management make better decisions through targeted analysis, forecasting and challenging current understanding and practice.
• Through application of previous experience, you will proactively engage with the Finance Team to develop and improve budgeting and forecasting models to assist management with decision making for the deposit taking function.
• Create and deliver regular data for insight reports.
• Constantly review, recommend, and build the right metrics, developing MI or requesting MI from strategy owners.
• Present conclusions and recommendations clearly and concisely, both written and verbally, highlighting key trends, interactions, risks, and recommendations.
• Ensure clear documentation and commented code in place for all analysis, logs of challenges and outcomes are well maintained.

What will make you stand out?

• Reporting systems experience, preferably Power BI
• Coding experience, preferably SAS and SQL
• Ability to solve complex problems
• Ability to operate independently and objectively
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint capability
• Highly numerate with strong analytical and reporting skills, and thorough attention to detail and presentation.
• Analytical thinking with the ability to interpret complex factual and qualitative information to filter and prioritise decisions.
• Analytical approach to creating data, developing MI, and providing clear and concise conclusions and recommendations.

Our average process takes up to 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team throughout the process.

As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.

Your working life: If you prefer to work part-time, we'll make this happen whenever we can - whether this is to help you meet other commitments or strike a great work-life balance. A fear of losing your current working flexibility shouldn't hinder you from applying for new opportunities, which is why we aim to match your existing flexible working arrangements where possible.

Why work for us?

Back in 1880, our founder, JK Waddilove started to provide factory workers in Bradford, with essentials, when others wouldn’t, like coal and clothing.
Times have changed since then, society has moved on, and our market and customer needs have evolved. What has not changed though, is our long-established desire to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.
Today we have stayed true to our purpose, just as we’ve always done, in our communities, for our customers, in an evolving and changing world.
It’s why we are here, it’s how we will stay, and as Vanquis Banking Group, we can look to the future, and look back at our past with pride.

At Vanquis Banking Group we believe in looking after our colleagues, so we do our best to create a rewarding, engaging, and supportive work environment across our various divisions.

We let our colleagues know we appreciate their hard work by offering competitive salaries, benefits, and a Group wide recognition scheme. All colleagues are eligible to join a pension scheme, and, after six months’ service, you can join our ‘Save as you Earn’ and 'Buy as you Earn' schemes.

We offer a range of training and development opportunities to help each of our colleagues maximise their potential, whatever their role. From your first day working with us, we’ll help you settle into your new role and are happy to talk to you about your career aspirations.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Here at Vanquis Banking Group, we embrace everyone’s unique strengths and identities to be themselves at work. Regardless of how you identify yourself, your sexual orientation, martial or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national background, faith, disability, or age – your experiences and background help enrich our teams, and most importantly help support our customers in the best way possible. At the end of the day, its our people that help us to fulfil the reason why we’re here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available to help. You can contact us at talent.acquisition@vanquisbankinggroup.com

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