Reporting Analyst

Job title: Reporting Analyst

Location: Northampton (Hybrid)

Contract length: 6 month contract (Scope for extension)

Pay rate: £400 - £450 per day (PAYE only)

Overall purpose of role:

People Analytics & Culture is responsible for providing data-led insights to our customers to drive decision-making. Our current focus is on simplifying our technology and building a comprehensive Reporting & Analytics Centre of Excellence. Analytics will be core to HR’s planned digital agenda and will also be used to measure the success of HR Initiatives.

About HR 

HR is helping to make Barclays a better place to work by delivering an HR service that is simple, efficient and insightful by focusing on four priority areas: Data, Process, Technology and MI & Analytics. Barclays are recruiting for 

About People Analytics & Culture

People Analytics & Culture is responsible for providing data-led insights to our customers to drive decision-making. Our current focus is on simplifying our technology and building a comprehensive Reporting & Analytics Centre of Excellence (CoE).  Analytics will be core to HR’s planned digital agenda and will also be used to measure the success of HR Initiatives.

Overall purpose of role

• To provide a first class Customer Service for Business Clients, Employees, Managers and HR Colleagues.

• To collate data extracts, test, and present findings with regards to data assurance, quality and accuracy.

• Manage the end to end lifecycle of all testing aspects through regular development to ensure data continues to support key business questions

• Deliver data & MI in line with governance, legal and policy expectations

• Support key projects, continuous improvements, small change activity and testing 

Key Accountabilities

• Data quality and peer reviewing

• Support key business challenges through the use of our current technology stack

• Resolve customer queries by analysing the root cause and owning through to resolution

• Confirm correct levels of authorisation are in place before undertaking work.

• Support colleagues in self-serving key data through our reporting tools 

• Manage the provision of a wide range of ad hoc MI reports and datasets to numerous customer groups so as to enable them to achieve their objectives

Stakeholder Management and Leadership 

The role holder’s key clients will be internal PA&C and senior business stakeholders.

Decision-making and Problem Solving 

The role holder must act as a central point of contact for data testing, reporting and MI development and queries.

Risk and Control Objective 

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, enterprise wide risk management Framework and internal Barclays policies and policy standards.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Extensive experience of using MS Excel, including Power Query and other MS (standard) applications in a reporting and testing capacity.

• Experience in the testing phases of data extracts during the project lifecycle, with the key focus on data quality, security, risk, controls and governance.

• Excellent & proven communication skills - verbal, written & presentation.

• Excellent Customer Service skills and experience – ability to deal with a varied customer base, including business customers & senior stakeholders, and explain findings clearly to both a technical and non-technical audience.

• Analytical thinking and understanding of data and basic business analysis to be able to collate, capture and present data as information, with clear recommendations to the end user.

• Ability to work under pressure, coordinate and prioritise activities, self-discipline and motivation.  

• Team player who naturally shares best practice and knowledge to help achieve business and personal objectives of other Team members.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of HR processes

• Business Objects

• Qlik Sense/Qlik View

• Workday

Purpose and Values 

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.

Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect

We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.

Integrity

We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.

Service

We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.

Excellence

We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.

Stewardship

We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.

Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Empower 

Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.

Challenge

Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.

Drive

Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.