Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

Barnsley Council; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A progressive local government authority in Barnsley is seeking a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst to lead data analysis projects aimed at improving performance and decision-making. The successful candidate will harness data visualisation tools and engage with diverse stakeholders to deliver actionable insights. Strong analytical and communication skills are essential. This is a full-time, permanent role with a competitive salary within the range of £42,839 - £46,142 per annum.

Qualifications

• Proactive and analytical with a passion for using data to drive improvement.
• Experience with data visualisation tools for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Conduct data quality assessment, cleansing, and profiling from multiple sources.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects for quality data analysis and advice.
• Provide advice on strategic and operational performance management.
• Develop and present data visualisations for key issues.

Skills

Data visualisation

Data analysis

SQL

Power BI

Communication

Education

Level 6 qualification or equivalent experience

Tools

SSRS

Visual Studio

Excel

Job description

Overview

Barnsley Council have 2 exciting opportunities for a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst to join the team based in Barnsley. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £42,839 - £46,142 per annum.

About the Senior Business Intelligence Analyst post:

Barnsley Council is a place of possibilities, and we are proud to be a double award-winning Council of the Year (LGC and MJ 2023), recognised for bold thinking, innovation, and delivering real impact for our communities. Now, we’re inviting two talented and ambitious Business Intelligence Senior Analysts to join our BI service.

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of data-led decision making in Barnsley.

We’ve been working hard as an organisation to ensure data is recognised as a strategic asset and redefining how we use our data. To enable this, we’ve launched a new operating model for Business Intelligence. Our service is built on the principles of Enabling Barnsley—encouraging innovation, empowering services to self-serve, and allowing our BI experts to focus on high-impact work that delivers tangible benefits for our organisation and its communities.

We’re not just about reporting — we’re about predictive analytics, insight-driven continuous improvement and intelligence-led culture change. Our work has earned recognition from government departments and national bodies and we’re proud to be seen as a centre of excellence.

We’re excited to be moving to Microsoft Fabric in the coming months, unlocking new possibilities for single view and end to end analysis, automation and scalable insight delivery. Our team is already embracing Copilot and other AI driven tools, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in local government intelligence.

The role will include:

• Working with teams of data developers and analysts to lead projects that provide the best quality analysis and advice, extracting, integrating, and analysing complex data from multiple systems using advanced SQL
• Providing advice to senior leaders on strategic and operational performance management, identifying where performance insights can inform business decisions, drive improvement and shape future plans.
• Working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders to understand requirements in order to deliver complex pieces of work, gather insights and support the development of new mechanisms to assess impact and measure performance.
• Developing and presenting data visualisations, including analysis of key issues using tools such as Power BI, SSRS, Visual Studio, and Excel
• Producing high quality, user friendly reports and dashboards that display complex information and statutory data, including analysis that draws on a range of sources and uses the most appropriate medium to visualise data to tell compelling and actionable stories with clear recommendations to improve outcomes for local people and organisational effectiveness.
• Ensuring that performance management information is timely and robust and used to improve data quality, share insights and strengthen accountability across the organisation.
• Enabling data to be accessed by colleagues through the development of self-serve capabilities.

Requirements:

• You are a proactive and analytical individual with a passion for using data to drive improvement
• Substantial experience of using data visualisation tools and specialist technical business intelligence solutions to provide information to a variety of technical and non technical stakeholders.
• Significant experience in conducting data quality assessment, data cleansing and data profiling techniques from multiple sources, to integrate and transform data
• You possess excellent communication and story telling skills, and able to tailor messages and deliver these to diverse audiences
• Experience of presenting information verbally at meetings, undertaking formal presentations and confident in using modern technologies and digital tools to enhance performance.
• You have strong interpersonal skills and can build effective relationship across the organisations in order to communicate complex information clearly to a range of audiences
• A level 6 qualification (or equivalent experience) in a relevant field

Closing date for applications: Friday 3rd October

Interviews will take place week commencing 13th October.

If you feel you have the necessary skills and abilities to join our ambitious team as our Senior Business Intelligence Analyst, click "apply" we’d be delighted to receive your application.

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