Senior Data Analyst Business Partner

Barclays; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Data Analyst Business Partner to enhance data quality and governance within the organization. In this pivotal role, you will collaborate closely with business stakeholders to implement new data processes and drive data integrity initiatives. Your expertise in analyzing complex datasets and ensuring high-quality data standards will be crucial in translating business needs into actionable strategies. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to effective risk management and compliance while fostering partnerships across various business units. If you are passionate about data and looking to make a significant impact, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience with large datasets and high-quality data standards.
• Ability to analyze detailed datasets and make recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure successful implementation of data governance frameworks.
• Monitor data quality and identify areas for improvement.

Skills

Data analysis

Data integrity

Data governance

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

As a Senior Data Analyst Business Partner at Barclays, you will be at the heart of ensuring the highest standards of data quality while working closely with business stakeholders on implementing new data processes. Your primary focus will be improving data integrity, driving new data initiatives, and ensuring that data systems are streamlined and effectively integrated across the business.

To be successful as a Senior Data Analyst Business Partner, you should have experience with:

• Ability to analyse highly detailed datasets, identify trends, and make data-driven recommendations.
• Previous experience of working with large datasets and ensuring high-quality data standards.
• Previous experience with the implementation of data processes and systems.

This role will be located at our Glasgow office.

Purpose of the role

To enable effective data governance, risk management, and compliance within the bank, acting as a liaison between business units and the Data & Records Management (DRM) function, translating business needs into actionable strategies and ensuring efficient implementation of DRM.

Accountabilities

• Partnership with the local business unit to ensure successful implementation of data & records governance frameworks as appropriate to the needs of the business unit.
• Provision of guidance and support on records classification, retention, storage, retrieval and disposal to business units.
• Monitoring local data quality and records metrics and identify areas for improvement.
• Identification of opportunities for data improvement and optimisation.
• Partnership with the relevant business unit to support their data priorities and ensure appropriate decisions related to data & records are embedded in their BAU decision making and change programs.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.