Adults Senior Data Analyst

LB RICHMOND UPON THAMES & LB WANDSWORTH; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in London is looking for a Senior Data Analyst to transform complex social care data into impactful visual insights. The role involves leading data-driven decision-making and working collaboratively across departments. The ideal candidate should possess strong quantitative analytical skills, excellent communication abilities, and proficiency in tools like SQL and Power BI. This position offers a fixed-term contract for 18 months with a focus on delivering better services to residents.

Qualifications

• Enjoy working in a constantly changing and busy environment.
• Be a self-starter who is also comfortable working individually as well as part of a team.
• Have an inquisitive mindset, with a strong eye for detail.
• Be comfortable planning, leading, and delivering complex data solutions.
• Have a strong quantitative analytical background.
• Be an excellent communicator.
• Have good project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Transform complex social care data into impactful visual insights.
• Lead social care managers to data-driven decision-making.
• Work within a committed Adult’s Performance Team.
• Deliver performance monitoring and reporting.

Skills

SQL

Power BI

R

Python

PowerQuery

Job description

Senior Data Analyst

£40,737 - £49,365

Fixed Term or Secondment 18 months

Full Time

Richmond, Wandsworth and at least 40 percent office based

Are you passionate about data and business intelligence? Then become a key player in transforming complex social care data into impactful and effective visual insights that tell our story. Utilise your Power BI and coding skills to lead our social care managers to data-driven decision-making. We will help you to channel your passion towards making a positive impact on the lives of vulnerable adults and carers in Richmond and Wandsworth.

We are pleased to offer a fixed term opportunity for a Senior Data Analyst to join the Assurance and Innovation Division in the Adult Social Care and Public Health Directorate. You’ll work within a committed and passionate Adult’s Performance Team, and alongside a wide range of colleagues from operational services, IT, and commissioners, to help deliver performance monitoring and reporting, from our social care systems. You will also use a wide range of other national and local data sources so that we have excellent visibility of our performance, and service user experience.

About the role

As the Senior Data Analyst within the team, your skills will make a difference by helping us become more efficient in telling our story with our data, and insights. This will help us to know where we’re doing well but also where we need to improve service delivery to our residents.

You will be joining adult social care at a time when there are lots of exciting changes happening so this will be an ideal opportunity for you to be part of a journey where you will have the opportunity to use your skills and to develop them further.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

You will:

• Enjoy working in a constantly changing and busy environment.
• Be a self-starter who is also comfortable working individually as well as part of a team.
• Have an inquisitive mindset, with a strong eye for detail.
• Be comfortable planning, leading, and delivering complex data solutions to improve performance and to deliver better services for our residents.
• Have a strong quantitative analytical background and be able to draw out key messages from large datasets.
• Be an excellent communicator, able to explaindata concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Have highly developed IT skills that includes using tools such as SQL, R or Python, PowerBI and PowerQuery.
• Have good project management skills with experience of working collaboratively with colleagues across large organisations.

There are developmental opportunities within the team where you will have freedom to be creative by using your existing skills and by developing new ones in the use of data visualization tools and analysis techniques.

Closing Date: 16th November 2025.

Shortlisting Date: 17th November 2025.

Interview Date: 24th or 28th November 2025.

Test/Presentation:assessments on PowerBI, SQL, Excel

For an informal conversation please contact Carl Fenty - Performance Manager Adults via [e-mail]

We may close this vacancy early once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).