Data Analyst

Mears Group PLC; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave plus bank holiday

Annual Mears Fun Day

Volunteering Leave

Staff perks with Mears Rewards

Family friendly policies

Company Vehicle and Fuel Card

Access to EAP Counselling sessions

Job summary

Mears Group PLC is seeking a Data Analyst to support the PMP transformation for the AASC contract. You will turn PMP data into clear insights, enhance data quality, and improve reporting to enable confident operational decisions.

The role involves analysing complex data, building dashboards, and delivering KPI information across national sites with remote work options. Strong SQL, Excel, and PowerBI skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience analysing, validating and reporting on complex, multi-layered operational or project data.
• Strong SQL skills with practical experience writing queries and working across multiple SQL views to extract and filter data, join data from multiple tables, summarise data, investigate discrepancies and validate data quality.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills; including XLOOKUP / VLOOKUP, PivotTables, Complex formulas and conditional logic, data cleansing, validation and reconciliation.
• Skilled in the use of VBA & PowerBI and experience working with programme, project or operational performance data.
• Ability to identify trends, data quality issues and root causes, and translate into concise, meaningful insight and recommendations.
• Experience developing management information, KPI reporting or dashboards that clearly communicate performance and areas requiring attention.
• Clear communication skills, and confidence presenting insight.
• High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Existing Security Clearance is a preference.
• Central government or repairs and maintenance experience.
• Operational exposure and understanding.

Responsibilities

• Collect, organise, analyse and interpret programme data.
• Identify issues, trends, risks and insights to support decision-making.
• Develop reports, dashboards and KPI information.
• Support data validation, reconciliation and quality assurance.
• Recommend improvements to data, processes, controls and reporting.

Skills

SQL

Advanced Excel

PowerBI

VBA

Data analysis

Communication

Attention to detail

Security clearance

Tools

SQL

PowerBI

Excel

VBA

Job description

Annual salary: up to £45,000.00

Data Analyst

Location: Remote role but travel across national sites

Salary up to £45,000 per annum plus £4,000 company car allowance

Contract: Full time - 2-year fixed term contracts, Monday to Friday

About the Role

Mears Housing Management is looking for a Data Analyst to help deliver the Property Management Platform (PMP), a transformation programme for the Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract (AASC). The Data Analyst will help turn PMP data into clear insight, support better data quality, stronger reporting, benefits tracking and more confident operational decision-making.

PMP is being introduced to provide a single, more reliable way to manage property, occupancy and operational information across AASC. It will improve data quality, strengthen reporting and support more consistent ways of working across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Collect, organise, analyse and interpret programme data.

• Identify issues, trends, risks and insights to support decision-making.

• Develop reports, dashboards and KPI information.

• Support data validation, reconciliation and quality assurance.

• Recommend improvements to data, processes, controls and reporting.

Role Criteria

• Experience analysing, validating and reporting on complex, multi-layered operational or project data.

• Strong SQL skills are essential, with practical experience writing queries and working across multiple SQL views to:Extract and filter data, Join data from multiple tables, Summarise data, Investigate discrepancies and validate data quality

• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills; including:XLOOKUP / VLOOKUP, PivotTables, Complex formulas and conditional logic, Data cleansing, validation and reconciliation, Manipulating and analysing large datasets

• Skilled in the use of VBA & PowerBI and experience working with programme, project or operational performance data.

• Ability to identify trends, data quality issues and root causes, and translate into concise, meaningful insight and recommendations.

• Experience developing management information, KPI reporting or dashboards that clearly communicate performance and areas requiring attention.

• Clear communication skills, and confidence presenting insight.

• High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.

• Existing Security Clearance is a preference.

• Central government or repairs and maintenance experience.

• Operational exposure and understanding.

Benefits we can offer you

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!

• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.

• Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more

• Family friendly policies

• Company Vehicle and Fuel Card

• Access to EAP Counselling sessions

To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be aged over 21 have held your licence over 3 months and have less than 9 points.

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

As part of the recruitment process for this role, we will carry out a Background, Identity, Security clearance & BPSS check. For these checks to be completed, we will require from you the relevant identification, including Proof of Address, References, a valid passport and proof that you have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.

At Mears Group, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, we are a Disability Confident employer, valuing individuality and ensuring equal opportunities for all.

We proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and are honoured to have achieved the Gold Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) to coincide with this, we hold an Endorser Award for the Career Transition Partnership, recognising our commitment to veterans transitioning into civilian careers.

In our continued effort to promote social mobility, we invite applicants to voluntarily share their background information during the application stages to help us better understand the diverse experiences of our candidates. This is to ensure we are committed to improving social mobility. We use the Social Mobility Index to assess and enhance opportunities for individuals from diverse backgrounds. These questions are optional and will not impact your ability to apply.