Company Description

We're Together, a mortgage and secured loan provider based in Cheadle, Greater Manchester. Lending year-in, year-out for over 45 years, we've grown into one of the finance industry's best-kept secrets.

Our team of over 750 colleagues turn challenges into opportunities that make our customers’ financial ambitions accessible. We try to approach everything we do with good old-fashioned common sense. But in many respects we’re a lot like a start-up: growing fast, and shaking up the status quo.

Job Description

Due to continuing growth, we now have a requirement for a People Data Analyst to be based from our Head Office in Cheadle, Greater Manchester.

Reporting to the People Analytics Manager, the People Data Analyst will be a key individual in ensuring the completeness, accuracy, connectivity & robustness of all HR & Facilities related data, as well as supporting the company-wide People Costs budgets and forecasts.

The successful candidate will be a driven individual with a can-do attitude, have a keen eye for detail, good problem solving skills, and a flexibility of thinking.

We will give you the support, skills and tools that you need to be successful if you can bring the drive, personality and desire.

Key Responsibilities

• Production, maintenance and distribution of regular reporting;
• Development of MI and identifying areas of insight;
• Support the development and delivery of annual People Costs budget and quarterly forecasts working closely with business areas;
• Identify key data risks, proposing mitigation and controls within the department;
• Provide support and direction for colleagues in the rollout of new MI suites and dashboards;
• Streamline processes / data within HR & Facilities to ensure efficiency and compliance;
• Further automate existing manual reporting across all business areas;
• Ad-hoc reporting required by the business.

Qualifications

Essential Experience

• Proven working experience as a Data Analyst or analytical role;
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organise and analyse significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy;
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills;
• Highly proficient in the full Microsoft Office suite;
• Proficient at queries, report writing and presenting findings;
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with stakeholders at all levels;
• Highly organised, with a flexible approach to work, and the ability to multi-task effectively.

Candidates who are able to demonstrate the below will be given additional consideration:

• Knowledge of SQL, Power BI, Visual Basic (VBA);
• Experience working with costs / financial information / budgets etc.

Additional Information

We offer a range of company benefits, including 25 days holiday which can be flexed up/down, pension, life assurance, critical illness cover, health cash plan, private medical insurance, regular team/individual incentives, travel season ticket loans, Ride to Work scheme, free gym access and local bar/restaurant discounts.

Career development opportunities are excellent and where appropriate we offer sponsorship of relevant qualifications.

Please note that all successful applicants will be subject to a Criminal Records Bureau check, a credit check and a Fraud Prevention database check.

Company Description

We're Together, a mortgage and secured loan provider based in Cheadle, Greater Manchester. Lending year-in, year-out for over 45 years, we've grown into one of the finance industry's best-kept secrets.

Our team of over 750 colleagues turn challenges into opportunities that make our customers’ financial ambitions accessible. We try to approach everything we do with good old-fashioned common sense. But in many respects we’re a lot like a start-up: growing fast, and shaking up the status quo.

Job Description

Due to continuing growth, we now have a requirement for a People Data Analyst to be based from our Head Office in Cheadle, Greater Manchester.

Reporting to the People Analytics Manager, the People Data Analyst will be a key individual in ensuring the completeness, accuracy, connectivity & robustness of all HR & Facilities related data, as well as supporting the company-wide People Costs budgets and forecasts.

The successful candidate will be a driven individual with a can-do attitude, have a keen eye for detail, good problem solving skills, and a flexibility of thinking.

We will give you the support, skills and tools that you need to be successful if you can bring the drive, personality and desire.

Key Responsibilities

• Production, maintenance and distribution of regular reporting;
• Development of MI and identifying areas of insight;
• Support the development and delivery of annual People Costs budget and quarterly forecasts working closely with business areas;
• Identify key data risks, proposing mitigation and controls within the department;
• Provide support and direction for colleagues in the rollout of new MI suites and dashboards;
• Streamline processes / data within HR & Facilities to ensure efficiency and compliance;
• Further automate existing manual reporting across all business areas;
• Ad-hoc reporting required by the business.

Qualifications

Essential Experience

• Proven working experience as a Data Analyst or analytical role;
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organise and analyse significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy;
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills;
• Highly proficient in the full Microsoft Office suite;
• Proficient at queries, report writing and presenting findings;
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with stakeholders at all levels;
• Highly organised, with a flexible approach to work, and the ability to multi-task effectively.

Candidates who are able to demonstrate the below will be given additional consideration:

• Knowledge of SQL, Power BI, Visual Basic (VBA);
• Experience working with costs / financial information / budgets etc.

Additional Information

We offer a range of company benefits, including 25 days holiday which can be flexed up/down, pension, life assurance, critical illness cover, health cash plan, private medical insurance, regular team/individual incentives, travel season ticket loans, Ride to Work scheme, free gym access and local bar/restaurant discounts.

Career development opportunities are excellent and where appropriate we offer sponsorship of relevant qualifications.

Please note that all successful applicants will be subject to a Criminal Records Bureau check, a credit check and a Fraud Prevention database check.

Currently recruiting for an Technical Specialist on behalf of an well known financial services organisation in Central Edinburgh.

This role is ideal for an individual who is passionate about Data Analytics & also wants to be a part of an growing organisation.

Experience required:

Financial services or Consultant background

Certifications in programming languages

SAS, SQL, Teradata or Python

Strong client facing & stakeholder management skills

If you feel you are an experienced Technical Specialist then waste no time in applying for this new role!

Currently recruiting for an Technical Specialist on behalf of an well known financial services organisation in Central Edinburgh.

This role is ideal for an individual who is passionate about Data Analytics & also wants to be a part of an growing organisation.

Experience required:

Financial services or Consultant background

Certifications in programming languages

SAS, SQL, Teradata or Python

Strong client facing & stakeholder management skills

If you feel you are an experienced Technical Specialist then waste no time in applying for this new role!

Company Description

The Rank Group is growing rapidly within both our Venues and Digital businesses. If you’re not sure who we are, you may be more familiar with us through our iconic brands; Mecca Bingo and Grosvenor Casino. We have most recently acquired Stride Gaming, which, together with our existing Digital business, forms Rank Interactive. We employ circa 8,000 people globally, with our UK office functions being located in Maidenhead (Head Office), Sheffield (Customer Solutions Hub), London (Digital) and a further office in Gibraltar, which is home to our existing Rank Digital function. We are evolving as a business and are adding some exciting new brands and concepts to our venues and digital offering. By joining an office-based or operational function with us, you’ll instantly be part of a high-performing and inclusive culture, which works closely to support our Customer-facing teams.

Job Description

As a Data Modeler within our Data and Analytics function, you will play a pivotal role in technically delivering our data and analytical product alongside a talented multi-disciplinary team comprising of business and data analysts, ELT developers, customer insight teams, data scientists and BI developers. You will be passionate about working with data and ensuring we build products that exposes the value of that data.

Main Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Transforming complex business structures, processes and activities into technical solutions
• Build out our data lake and transform our data into usable data views e.g. Target Data Model with a Single Customer view of the customer.
• Design, build and support scalable, high performance data applications, repositories and data governance related applications
• Contribute to the definition of data architecture standards and establish best practices for data management (including the handling of Personally Data)
• Design and implement logical and physical data models across platforms
• Manage equivalent, separate data sets across different development and staging environments as part of our release process
• Seek out opportunities to propose new concepts and ideas in 'Big Data’ and expand existing platforms or leverage new technologies to meet more complex business needs
• Help mentoring the more junior developers and analysts in data product development

Qualifications

• Degree qualified
• Proven project experience in modelling and evolving complex data structures
• Solid understanding of data warehousing principles, concepts and best practices (e.g. ODS, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Kimball, Zachmann, TOGAF)
• Solid experience of documentation ( Design documentation and Source to Target Mappings)
• Strong SQL/ T-SQL / SSIS and data profiling skills
• Previously worked on a "Big Data platform", enabling non-technical users to gain insight into key business metrics
• Hands on experience with modern "Big Data" systems (e.g. Azure Data Warehouse, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Factory. Snowflake is a bonus)
• Excellent knowledge of data formats including JSON, XML, CSV etc.
• Familiarity with a traditional BI application such as Power BI,
• Hands-on ELT experience using tools like WhereScape Red, WhereScape 3D
• Experience working with both modern compiled and dynamic / scripting languages: e.g. Python, R
• Strong problem solving and analytic skills
• Comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic environment with a certain degree of uncertainty
• Master Data Management and Data Governance experience.

Additional Information

Personal Qualities

• Demonstrates sense of passion and pride about own work. Positive attitude and adapts well to change. Inspires passion and excitement around shared goals, promoting environment of achievement.
• Demonstrates the ability to motivate and influence teams and individuals with whom there is no direct or indirect management responsibility
• Able to articulate a compelling vision, and effectively manages self / others through ambiguity.
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communications skills
• Proven ability to evaluate business specifications, design in detail all data solutions necessary and provide technical guidance to other members of a project team
• Experience of working effectively with both business and technical stakeholders

Company Description

The Rank Group is growing rapidly within both our Venues and Digital businesses. If you’re not sure who we are, you may be more familiar with us through our iconic brands; Mecca Bingo and Grosvenor Casino. We have most recently acquired Stride Gaming, which, together with our existing Digital business, forms Rank Interactive. We employ circa 8,000 people globally, with our UK office functions being located in Maidenhead (Head Office), Sheffield (Customer Solutions Hub), London (Digital) and a further office in Gibraltar, which is home to our existing Rank Digital function. We are evolving as a business and are adding some exciting new brands and concepts to our venues and digital offering. By joining an office-based or operational function with us, you’ll instantly be part of a high-performing and inclusive culture, which works closely to support our Customer-facing teams.

Job Description

As a Data Modeler within our Data and Analytics function, you will play a pivotal role in technically delivering our data and analytical product alongside a talented multi-disciplinary team comprising of business and data analysts, ELT developers, customer insight teams, data scientists and BI developers. You will be passionate about working with data and ensuring we build products that exposes the value of that data.

Main Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Transforming complex business structures, processes and activities into technical solutions
• Build out our data lake and transform our data into usable data views e.g. Target Data Model with a Single Customer view of the customer.
• Design, build and support scalable, high performance data applications, repositories and data governance related applications
• Contribute to the definition of data architecture standards and establish best practices for data management (including the handling of Personally Data)
• Design and implement logical and physical data models across platforms
• Manage equivalent, separate data sets across different development and staging environments as part of our release process
• Seek out opportunities to propose new concepts and ideas in 'Big Data’ and expand existing platforms or leverage new technologies to meet more complex business needs
• Help mentoring the more junior developers and analysts in data product development

Qualifications

• Degree qualified
• Proven project experience in modelling and evolving complex data structures
• Solid understanding of data warehousing principles, concepts and best practices (e.g. ODS, Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Kimball, Zachmann, TOGAF)
• Solid experience of documentation ( Design documentation and Source to Target Mappings)
• Strong SQL/ T-SQL / SSIS and data profiling skills
• Previously worked on a "Big Data platform", enabling non-technical users to gain insight into key business metrics
• Hands on experience with modern "Big Data" systems (e.g. Azure Data Warehouse, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Factory. Snowflake is a bonus)
• Excellent knowledge of data formats including JSON, XML, CSV etc.
• Familiarity with a traditional BI application such as Power BI,
• Hands-on ELT experience using tools like WhereScape Red, WhereScape 3D
• Experience working with both modern compiled and dynamic / scripting languages: e.g. Python, R
• Strong problem solving and analytic skills
• Comfortable working in a fast paced dynamic environment with a certain degree of uncertainty
• Master Data Management and Data Governance experience.

Additional Information

Personal Qualities

• Demonstrates sense of passion and pride about own work. Positive attitude and adapts well to change. Inspires passion and excitement around shared goals, promoting environment of achievement.
• Demonstrates the ability to motivate and influence teams and individuals with whom there is no direct or indirect management responsibility
• Able to articulate a compelling vision, and effectively manages self / others through ambiguity.
• Excellent presentation, written and verbal communications skills
• Proven ability to evaluate business specifications, design in detail all data solutions necessary and provide technical guidance to other members of a project team
• Experience of working effectively with both business and technical stakeholders

Company Description

The Rank Group is growing rapidly within both our Venues and Digital businesses. If you’re not sure who we are, you may be more familiar with us through our iconic brands; Mecca Bingo and Grosvenor Casino. We have most recently acquired Stride Gaming, which, together with our existing Digital business, forms Rank Interactive. We employ circa 8,000 people globally, with our UK office functions being located in Maidenhead (Head Office), Sheffield (Customer Solutions Hub), London (Digital) and a further office in Gibraltar, which is home to our existing Rank Digital function. We are evolving as a business and are adding some exciting new brands and concepts to our venues and digital offering. By joining an office-based or operational function with us, you’ll instantly be part of a high-performing and inclusive culture, which works closely to support our Customer-facing teams.

Job Description

Provide insightful, actionable analyses through PowerBI dashboards, and reports, to impact our revenue, productivity, acquisition, attrition, operational efficiencies, cross-sell strategies, customer behavior, and segmentation.

You will be working within the Chief Data Officers team. The team is responsible for data across Rank brands globally. You will help develop strategic data solutions through reporting, BI and MI. Working alongside your peers - Data Analysts, Data Governance, Data Quality, Business Analysis and Program management.

Main Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• This role comes with a high rate of exposure to various parts of the business due to regular senior stakeholder engagement.
• Works with existing and new technologies to shape the development of analytical insight delivery through PowerBI dashboards.
• Translates customer, transactional and behavioural data into key insights and business deliverables.
• Presents findings to key stakeholders, and inputs to negotiations on strategies to drive performance across the business.
• Collaborating with team members and stakeholders to build data products that enable others to work with reporting effectively and inform decision-making that solve business problems with data.
• Engage with Key stakeholders to develop key metrics to measure business performance.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified.
• Demonstrated ability to build solutions and user-friendly visualisations, dashboards and reports using PowerBI.
• Experience manipulating data stored in relational databases using SQL/Python/R.
• Experience Engaging with Key stakeholders.
• Ability to work as part of a team delivering solutions that can be deployed into production.
• Ability to take initiative and work independently to manage and deliver end-to-end BI solutions
• At least 5 years’ experience working in a data driven environment
• Familiar with Agile methodology (JIRA).
• Ability to gather requirements and map business needs to KPI dashboards.
• Creative, innovative thinker with outstanding problem-solving and numeracy skills
• Meticulous and thorough, with a healthy respect for quality & standards
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate results to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure ( Data Warehouse and Analysis Services) would be a plus.

Company Description

The Rank Group is growing rapidly within both our Venues and Digital businesses. If you’re not sure who we are, you may be more familiar with us through our iconic brands; Mecca Bingo and Grosvenor Casino. We have most recently acquired Stride Gaming, which, together with our existing Digital business, forms Rank Interactive. We employ circa 8,000 people globally, with our UK office functions being located in Maidenhead (Head Office), Sheffield (Customer Solutions Hub), London (Digital) and a further office in Gibraltar, which is home to our existing Rank Digital function. We are evolving as a business and are adding some exciting new brands and concepts to our venues and digital offering. By joining an office-based or operational function with us, you’ll instantly be part of a high-performing and inclusive culture, which works closely to support our Customer-facing teams.

Job Description

Provide insightful, actionable analyses through PowerBI dashboards, and reports, to impact our revenue, productivity, acquisition, attrition, operational efficiencies, cross-sell strategies, customer behavior, and segmentation.

You will be working within the Chief Data Officers team. The team is responsible for data across Rank brands globally. You will help develop strategic data solutions through reporting, BI and MI. Working alongside your peers - Data Analysts, Data Governance, Data Quality, Business Analysis and Program management.

Main Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• This role comes with a high rate of exposure to various parts of the business due to regular senior stakeholder engagement.
• Works with existing and new technologies to shape the development of analytical insight delivery through PowerBI dashboards.
• Translates customer, transactional and behavioural data into key insights and business deliverables.
• Presents findings to key stakeholders, and inputs to negotiations on strategies to drive performance across the business.
• Collaborating with team members and stakeholders to build data products that enable others to work with reporting effectively and inform decision-making that solve business problems with data.
• Engage with Key stakeholders to develop key metrics to measure business performance.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified.
• Demonstrated ability to build solutions and user-friendly visualisations, dashboards and reports using PowerBI.
• Experience manipulating data stored in relational databases using SQL/Python/R.
• Experience Engaging with Key stakeholders.
• Ability to work as part of a team delivering solutions that can be deployed into production.
• Ability to take initiative and work independently to manage and deliver end-to-end BI solutions
• At least 5 years’ experience working in a data driven environment
• Familiar with Agile methodology (JIRA).
• Ability to gather requirements and map business needs to KPI dashboards.
• Creative, innovative thinker with outstanding problem-solving and numeracy skills
• Meticulous and thorough, with a healthy respect for quality & standards
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to communicate results to non-technical audiences.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure ( Data Warehouse and Analysis Services) would be a plus.