AMS PSR

On behalf of National Savings and Investments, we are looking for a Remediation Data Analyst for an 18 Month Inside IR35, Hybrid contract – up to 2 days per week in London

An active SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. (Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.)

Purpose of role in the organisation

•    Act as an expert in NS&I data, including how it is structured, interpreted, manipulated and quality assured to support remediation activity.

•    Produce and undertake data-related activities, including data extracts, to support delivery of the remediation programme.

•    Produce analysis and reporting that provides stakeholders with clear, accurate insight and information relating to remediation activities.

Key Responsibilities

Remediation data activities

•    Develop and maintain the data, code and processes that support remediation, including optimisation, documentation and quality assurance of the existing code base.

•    Maintain expert knowledge of relevant data structures, content, capabilities, limitations and known quality issues.

•    Interrogate and interpret remediation and wider data in NS&I analytical data repositories using appropriate tools, analytical techniques and quality controls.

•    Provide analytical support to the remediation programme, producing insight and evidence to inform decisions and delivery activity.

•    Explain analysis clearly to stakeholders with varying levels of data literacy, including non-technical audiences.

Remediation population management

•    Undertake updates to the remediation population as required, ensuring changes are controlled, tested and documented.

•    Understand how the remediation population is created, including the data features, controls and testing used to reduce delivery and data quality risk.

Regular, repeatable processes and reporting

•    Undertake regular data-related processes at the required frequency, applying appropriate controls and following established, documented procedures.

•    Validate and assure work undertaken by other members of the team

Remediation data development

•    Identify and recommend changes or enhancements that improve efficiency, control, quality or repeatability of remediation data processes.

•    Translate remediation programme needs into clear specifications for data, process and reporting enhancements.

•    Test new data items as they are added, confirming they meet requirements and raising issues through the appropriate route.

•    Raise, track and support resolution of data issues, ensuring impacts and actions are clearly recorded.

•    Document processes as they are amended, enhanced or newly developed.

Development

•    Take ownership of ongoing development, maintaining expertise in relevant data sources, tools and operational processes.

Essential qualifications

•    Degree-level qualification, or equivalent experience, in a numerate, analytical or statistical subject.

Essential skills and experience

•    Experience delivering data outputs that support business-critical, operational or remediation activities.

•    Experience handling operational, case-level data with appropriate attention to accuracy, control and confidentiality.

•    Working-level knowledge of R or Python and their respective ecosystems, including experience writing, developing and optimising code for complex programmes and scripts.

•    Working-level knowledge of business intelligence or data visualisation tools, such as Tableau or Power BI, and experience applying a range of visualisation techniques to communicate insight clearly.

Essential technical knowledge

•    Expert-level knowledge of Excel, including advanced formulas, data manipulation and quality checking techniques.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the Department for Business and Trade guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Dept for Business and Trade guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".