We are currently looking for a Business Data Analyst for our public sector client in Glasgow to work in their Financial Analysis team.
*Salary: £49-57K
*Annual Leave: 41 Days
*Pension: Generous Public Sector Pension
*Work Type: Hybrid, 2-3 Days in the Office
Duties Include;
*Develop and maintain complex financial models to forecast benefits including cost avoidance, efficiency gains, return on investment, user experience and student satisfaction amongst others.
*Partner with our Planning Insight & Analysis function to understand historic data/performance and identify key trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
*Prepare and present detailed financial reports and dashboards to senior management, providing actionable insights and recommendations.
*Collaborate with stakeholders to understand projects from concept to completion and create the relevant business case and performance metrics at each stage.
*Deploy good interpersonal skills including negotiating, motivating, influencing, and building credible relationships with stakeholders.
*Provide specialist advice and guidance to translate business requirements into tangible, measurable outcomes.
Essential Skills/Experience Required;
*Demonstrable ability to quickly understand and distil projects into measurable outcomes, being creative with data analysis to problem-solve given many projects have no like-for-like comparison within the institution as a baseline.
*Effective communication and presentation skills to interact with the different types of Stakeholders
*Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish effective working relationships
*Comfortable to manage and analyse large data-sets - for example experience with BI tools, extracting and manipulating data
* Experience working as a Business Data Analyst within a large, complex organisation.

* Experience creating business cases, and doing options appraisal, across a number of projects concurrently.

* Significant experience of working with complex datasets, completing dataset reconciliations and translating into end user reporting.

* Demonstrable background planning and analysis role experience in a complex environment.

* Demonstrable delivery of insightful business information and reporting.

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual’s skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.