Senior Business Analyst

Essential Employment; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Essential Employment is seeking a Senior Business Analyst in Guildford for a temporary full-time contract, offering hybrid work with 2 days onsite per week. The role focuses on performance monitoring and reporting, delivering Power BI dashboards for managers, leadership, committees and regulators.

The successful candidate will analyse service performance data, identify trends and risks, and develop KPIs across Housing Services, ensuring data quality and timely regulatory submissions.

Qualifications

• Experience creating and maintaining regular Power BI reports and dashboards.
• Ability to analyse service performance data and identify trends and risks.
• Develop and monitor meaningful KPIs aligned to priorities and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain regular Power BI performance reports and dashboards for service managers, senior leadership teams, committees, and external regulators.
• Analyse service performance data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, exceptions and areas requiring intervention across high volume and high risk service areas such as repairs, voids, damp and mould, providing clear interpretation of what the data shows and what action may be required.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) across Housing Services, ensuring they remain meaningful, aligned to service priorities, regulatory requirements and improvement objectives.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency across housing performance reporting.
• Support the production of TSMs and regulatory submissions, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of performance reporting systems and business intelligence solutions.
• Identify opportunities to automate reporting processes and improve data accessibility.
• Support service areas with creation and interpretation of ad-hoc analysis.

Skills

Power BI

Data analysis

KPI development

Regulatory reporting

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Senior Business Analyst needed in Guildford, £395.83 per dayPAYE – Reference: 5303498

Hybrid 2 days per week

Performance Monitoring and Reporting:

• Develop and maintain regular Power BI performance reports and dashboards for service managers, senior leadership teams, committees, and external regulators.
• Analyse service performance data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, exceptions and areas requiring intervention across high volume and high risk service areas such as repairs, voids, damp and mould, providing clear interpretation of what the data shows and what action may be required.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) across Housing Services, ensuring they remain meaningful, aligned to service priorities, regulatory requirements and improvement objectives.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency across housing performance reporting.
• Support the production of TSMs and regulatory submissions, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of performance reporting systems and business intelligence solutions.
• Identify opportunities to automate reporting processes and improve data accessibility.
• Support service areas with creation and interpretation of ad-hoc analysis.

This is a full time role on a temporary contract basis.

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

All our roles may be subject to pre-employment checks including references so please be prepared.

Due to high volumes of CVs received we are not able to respond to all unsuccessful applications. You will always however hear from us by phone if we are able to take your CV forward to the next stage.