Business Data Analyst Regulation & Strategy · Hatfield ·

Affinity Water; Hatfield; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

26–30 days leave

Pension scheme

Wellbeing centre

Tap4Perks discounts

Affinity volunteering days

Job summary

Affinity Water is seeking an experienced Business Data Analyst to join our Data Analytics & Governance team on an 18-month fixed-term contract. You will bridge business and technical teams, shaping data solutions and improving governance and reporting.

With 4-5 years of relevant experience, you will lead workshops, map processes, and develop data mappings and data lineage while ensuring data quality across key systems.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years' experience in a Business Data Analyst, Data Analyst or BI Analyst role.
• Proven experience gathering, documenting and validating business requirements across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and management skills, with the ability to challenge constructively and influence outcomes.
• Extensive experience facilitating workshops, requirements gathering sessions and stakeholder reviews.
• Advanced SQL skills with experience interrogating large and complex datasets.
• Proven experience producing data mappings, data flow diagrams, data lineage documentation and data dictionaries.
• Strong understanding of data quality, data governance, data warehousing, ETL processes and data architecture principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead business and data requirements gathering workshops with stakeholders across the organisation.
• Analyse, document and validate business requirements, ensuring clear understanding and stakeholder agreement.
• Create business process maps and current/future state models, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, reporting and data quality.
• Develop and maintain data mapping, data lineage and data flow documentation.
• Use SQL and data analysis techniques to explore, interrogate and validate complex datasets.
• Work closely with data engineers, data architects and technical delivery teams to translate business requirements into effective data solutions.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops, playback sessions and solution reviews throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support the development and enhancement of dashboards, reports and analytical products that drive business decision-making.
• Identify data quality issues, risks and opportunities for improvement across key business processes.
• Support data governance initiatives and help establish best practice for data management and reporting.
• Build strong relationships across the organisation, influencing stakeholders and supporting successful delivery of change.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Business process mapping

SQL-based data analysis

Data quality assurance

Data governance knowledge

Analytical thinking

Tools

Power BI

Qlik Sense

Python basics

Job description

We're embarking on a transformational two-year programme to enhance our data, reporting and insight capabilities and are looking for an experienced Business Data Analyst to join our Data Analytics & Governance team on an 18-month fixed-term contract.

You'll work closely with stakeholders across the business to understand challenges, gather and document requirements, map business processes and data flows, and translate business needs into effective data solutions. Combining strong business analysis skills with technical data expertise, you'll play a key role in improving data quality, reporting, governance and decision-making across Affinity Water.

We're looking for someone with 4-5 years' experience in a Business Data Analyst, Data Analyst or BI Analyst role, with proven expertise in stakeholder management, requirements gathering, process mapping, SQL-based data analysis, and data mapping within a complex data or transformation environment.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Business Data Analyst, you'll act as the bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring data-led solutions are aligned to business needs and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead business and data requirements gathering workshops with stakeholders across the organisation.
• Analyse, document and validate business requirements, ensuring clear understanding and stakeholder agreement.
• Create business process maps and current/future state models, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, reporting and data quality.
• Develop and maintain data mapping, data lineage and data flow documentation.
• Use SQL and data analysis techniques to explore, interrogate and validate complex datasets.
• Work closely with data engineers, data architects and technical delivery teams to translate business requirements into effective data solutions.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops, playback sessions and solution reviews throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support the development and enhancement of dashboards, reports and analytical products that drive business decision-making.
• Identify data quality issues, risks and opportunities for improvement across key business processes.
• Support data governance initiatives and help establish best practice for data management and reporting.
• Build strong relationships across the organisation, influencing stakeholders and supporting successful delivery of change.

What You'll Bring

Essential

• At least 4-5 years' experience in a Business Data Analyst, Data Analyst or Business Intelligence Analyst role.
• Proven experience gathering, documenting and validating business requirements across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and management skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and influence outcomes.
• Extensive experience facilitating workshops, requirements gathering sessions and stakeholder reviews.
• Strong business process mapping experience, including identifying and implementing process improvements.
• Advanced SQL skills with experience interrogating large and complex datasets.
• Proven experience producing data mappings, data flow diagrams, data lineage documentation and data dictionaries.
• Strong understanding of data quality, data governance, data warehousing, ETL processes and data architecture principles.
• Experience working within large-scale change, transformation or data programmes.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively across a range of business and technical teams.

Desirable

• Experience using Qlik Sense, Power BI or similar data visualisation tools.
• Working knowledge of Python or other scripting languages.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Experience within the utilities, water or other regulated sectors.
• Knowledge of customer, billing, asset, operational or GIS data domains.
• Experience supporting data governance frameworks or master data initiatives.

Advert closes Friday 6th November

Benefits:

• Salary from £45,000 dependant on skills and experience
• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.
• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.
• Annual leave from 26-30 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
• A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.
• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)
• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.
• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.
• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets through our Tap4Perks scheme
• Discounts on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme through salary sacrifice
• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.
• Life Assurance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.