Lead Business Intelligence Specialist (Data Analytics & Insights)

JR United Kingdom; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial sector is seeking a Lead Business Intelligence Specialist in Swindon. This role focuses on enhancing data insights and analytics, requiring strong programming skills in SAS, Teradata, and SQL. The position offers flexible working arrangements and a range of employee benefits, including a generous pension scheme and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Personal pension scheme with employer contribution

Paid volunteering days

Life assurance worth 8x salary

Salary sacrifice benefits

Access to health and wellness options

Performance-related bonus

Training for career development

Qualifications

• Recent experience in an analytical role within data management or insight.
• Demonstrable programming experience using SAS, Teradata, or SQL.
• Ability to translate technical details into clear messaging.

Responsibilities

• Deliver insights and user stories from data across the Society.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to colleagues.
• Identify opportunities to enhance data-driven outcomes.

Skills

Data management

Data insight

Programming in SAS

Programming in Teradata

SQL

Analytical skills

Relationship building

Job description

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Lead Business Intelligence Specialist (Data Analytics & Insights), Swindon, Wiltshire

Client: Nationwide Building Society

Location: Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Views: 1

Posted: 23.05.2025

Expiry Date: 07.07.2025

Job Description:

Data & Functions Technology Delivery exists to provide a broad range of data products to colleagues across the Society. We require a Lead Business Intelligence Specialist to help develop and deliver reconciliation and assurance across critical processes, as part of that team.

You will join a community of analytical practitioners whose collective role is to enhance value through data and helping colleagues across the Society to unlock value by utilising your expert capability and skills. From a task perspective, you will be working in one of our Insight and Analytics teams, focusing on delivering shared outcomes that you have helped to prioritise, bringing your insight development skills as part of a multi-skilled team.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK-wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, learn, and feel connected.

For this job, you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part-time, you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our Swindon or London office.

What you'll be doing

From a task perspective, you will be working on data from across the Society, focusing on delivering insights and user stories, bringing your analysis outputs to life with sound recommendations for action as part of a multi-skilled team.

You’ll be able to identify opportunities to deliver ‘more’, where you may be working alongside others or on individual assignments, and take ownership for ensuring things are done correctly.

This could mean applying your skills to supporting proposition development, unlocking insights to support Channel developments, or supporting resolution of Member operational incidents with auditable, well-controlled data.

As a Lead BI Specialist, you will be expected to provide coaching and mentoring to colleagues and invest time in growing collective capability in the Society through your core area of expertise.

About you

As a minimum, you’ll:

• Have recent experience within an analytical role within a reconciliation, data management, or data insight environment, with demonstrable programming experience using SAS / Teradata / SQL
• Have the ability to provide highly effective subject matter expertise to both internal and external stakeholders
• Have recent experience translating technical detail into clear and concise messaging
• Be proactive, self-sufficient, and innovative with the ability to work in collaboration with a small number of analysts to deliver shared outcomes.
• Be good at building relationships across all levels

Our customer-first behaviors put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviors that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathize with them and understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions, and using language everyone can understand
• Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity; we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development
• Get it done - We prioritize what will have the greatest impact, are decisive, and take accountability for delivering excellent customer outcomes.

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer-first behaviors resonate with you and where you may have already demonstrated these.

The extras you'll get

There are various employee benefits at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you contribute 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Access to an annual performance-related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career