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Impact Futures; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Enhanced Sick Pay

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity leave

Life Assurance

Refer a friend bonus

Birthday day off

Employee Financial Wellbeing support

Buy extra 5 days leave

Employee Assistance Helpline

Company events and social gatherings

Job summary

Impact Futures Group is seeking a skilled BI Analyst to join our growing BI Team in a hybrid role, combining home-based work with our Birmingham office. You’ll deliver Power BI dashboards, analyse datasets from MIS, CRM and E-Portfolio systems, and provide insightful reporting to senior leadership and directors.

You’ll translate complex data into clear, actionable insights while engaging with stakeholders across departments.

Qualifications

• Advanced Power BI user with 2+ years' experience.
• Experience with large and complex datasets.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Experience with SQL.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Self-motivated with strong problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to translate complex data into clear insights.
• Confidence communicating with senior stakeholders.
• Strong PowerPoint skills and data visualization.
• Experience with CRM/MIS and E-Portfolio systems.
• Experience in the apprenticeship, education or training sector.
• Experience with unstructured or varied data sources.

Responsibilities

• Creating, developing and maintaining Power BI dashboards.
• Preparing and analysing complex datasets.
• Producing internal and external reporting and insight for a range of stakeholders and clients.
• Deriving intelligence from multiple and varied data sources.
• Maintaining and improving datasets, reporting processes and data quality.
• Responding to stakeholder queries in a fast-paced environment.
• Identifying trends, patterns and insights that can support better decision-making.
• Analysing local, national and global trends that could impact the organisation and wider industry.
• Creating bespoke reports and analysis for Directors and senior leaders.
• Presenting data and insight in a visually engaging way using PowerPoint.
• Sharing knowledge, generating ideas and supporting teams and stakeholders with data-led solutions.

Skills

Power BI proficiency

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Presentation skills

Problem solving

IT skills

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Excel

Job description

Could you turn complex data into clear insights that help shape business decisions?

Are you a Power BI expert who loves finding the story behind the numbers?

Do you enjoy working with senior stakeholders to turn data into action?

Impact Futures Group have two brand new opportunities for talented BI Analysts to join the team on a permanent, full time basis.

This is a hybrid working role; a blend between working from home and our Birmingham office. It will require attendance to Birmingham office at least once per week.

The Role

We're looking for a talented and analytical BI Analyst to join our growing BI Team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys working with data, solving problems and turning complex information into meaningful insights. You'll play an important role in providing reporting and analysis to our Senior Leadership Team and wider business, as well as creating bespoke reports and dashboards for Directors and senior stakeholders.

You'll work across existing reporting, developing new and bespoke solutions, and using your analytical skills to uncover the stories behind the data.

Our current reporting environment is primarily Power BI, with data driven from our MIS, CRM and E-Portfolio systems.

We're looking for someone who is naturally curious, self-motivated and confident in challenging the status quo. You'll be comfortable using statistically robust approaches to identify and communicate:

• Cause and effect
• Trends and forecasts
• Warning flags and opportunities
• Relationships and patterns across different datasets

You'll also be comfortable working with different formats and unstructured datasets, looking at information from different perspectives to uncover valuable insights.

Most importantly, you'll be a confident communicator who can take complex data and turn it into a clear, engaging story for a range of audiences.

What you'll be doing

As our BI Analyst, you'll be responsible for:

• Creating, developing and maintaining Power BI dashboards
• Preparing and analysing complex datasets
• Producing internal and external reporting and insight for a range of stakeholders and clients
• Deriving intelligence from multiple and varied data sources
• Maintaining and improving datasets, reporting processes and data quality
• Responding to stakeholder queries in a fast-paced environment
• Identifying trends, patterns and insights that can support better decision-making
• Analysing local, national and global trends that could impact the organisation and wider industry
• Creating bespoke reports and analysis for Directors and senior leaders
• Presenting data and insight in a visually engaging way usingPowerPoint
• Sharing knowledge, generating ideas and supporting teams and stakeholders with data-led solutions

You'll be joining a leading national training provider at an exciting time of growth and expansion, working in a fun and supportive environment in an organisation with a strong focus on people and culture.

Expect regular catch-ups and socials with your team, surprises in the post and company-wide social events- we're a friendly bunch.

The Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus public and bank holidays
• 3 additional days of paid leave for Christmas Shut down
• Enhanced Sick Pay
• Enhanced Maternity paid leave
• Enhanced Paternity paid leave
• Grandparent paid leave
• Bereavement paid leave
• Life Assurance
• Refer a friend bonus
• Birthday day off
• Refer a friend bonus
• Employee Financial Wellbeing support
• Buy an additional 5 days annual leave
• Employee Assistance Helpline
• Company events and social gatherings

About you

We're looking for someone who combines strong technical ability with curiosity, creativity and excellent communication skills.

You’ll ideally have:

• Advanced Power BI user (2+ years' experience)
• Experience working with large and complex datasets
• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience with SQL.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• A self-motivated approach with a strong problem-solving mindset
• Strong analytical, mathematical and IT skills
• The ability to translate complex data into clear, meaningful insight
• Confidence communicating with senior stakeholders across different departments
• Strong PowerPoint skills and the ability to present data visually and engagingly
• Previous experience of CRM/MIS and E-Portfolio systems
• Previous experienceworking within the apprenticeship, education or training sector
• Previous experience working with unstructured or varied data sources

This is a great opportunity to join a fast-growing organisation where your analysis will genuinely influence decision-making.

You'll have the opportunity to work on varied projects, collaborate with senior stakeholders and help develop how we use data and insight across the organisation.

If you're someone who doesn't just want to report the numbers but wants to understand what they mean, why they matter and what we should do next, we'd love to hear from you.

About Us

Impact Futures Group; one of the UK's largest independently owned training providers, delivering apprenticeships and vocational qualifications.

• Our expertise is underpinned by our Ofsted Grade 2 'Good' accreditation, and learner-centric delivery is at the heart of our continual operational evolution to ensure our learners receive an outstanding learning journey
• We are the 23rd best large employer in the UK and the 6th best education provider.
• We have been awarded a prestigious 2-star accreditation for been an outstanding company to work for
• We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitability qualified persons regardless of their race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An enhanced DBS check will be required for this role