Senior Planning and Assurance Analyst

City University London; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent London university is seeking a Senior Planning and Assurance Analyst to ensure compliance with statutory returns and support league table submissions. The role involves data analysis, creating data visualisations, and collaborating with the team to enhance processes through automation. Candidates should possess strong numerical skills and the ability to work with complex datasets. A competitive salary and benefits package is included, with a focus on professional development and equality in the workplace.

Benefits

Comprehensive staff training and development

Pension scheme

Sector-leading salary

Qualifications

• Experience with statutory higher education returns and their uses in compliance.
• Experience analysing large datasets and producing dashboards.
• Highly numerate and able to manipulate complex data.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and validate the accuracy of key statutory returns.
• Optimise and submit information to league tables.
• Enhance key processes through automation.
• Work collaboratively to produce dashboards for business intelligence.

Skills

Statutory Higher Education compliance

Data analysis

Data visualisation and dashboard creation

Numerical competence

Tools

Tableau

Various data manipulation platforms

Job description

Senior Planning and Assurance Analyst (Redeployee Applicants Only)

Location: Gloucester Building

Contract: Permanent • Full-time

Salary: £43,482

Closing date: 8 February 2026 at 11:59pm

City St George's, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George's, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.

Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.

The Strategic Planning and Performance (SPPU) directorate plays a critical role within the University to inform and facilitate the delivery of the Strategy and enable evidence-based decision-making. SPPU operates centrally in the University, reporting directly into the University’s Deputy President (Operations) and working closely with the University Senior Leadership team. The directorate activities include strategy formation and deployment, academic and financial planning, business intelligence, student management information, statutory assurance, performance monitoring, benchmarking, and league tables analysis.

The Senior Planning and Assurance Analyst role supports activities relating to statutory assurance and league table submissions and analysis. The specific responsibilities include analysing and validating the accuracy of key statutory returns, the optimisation and submission of information to league tables and enhancing key processes through automation. The post-holder will work in close collaboration with the broader SPPU team, supporting the wider operations of the directorate including the production of dashboards on the university's Tableau platform to support business intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and validate the accuracy of key statutory returns.
• Optimise and submit information to league tables.
• Enhance key processes through automation.
• Collaborate with the broader SPPU team to support directorate operations, including producing dashboards on Tableau for business intelligence.

Qualifications and experience

• Good knowledge of how statutory Higher Education returns are used for compliance and reputational purposes, including their use in league tables.
• Highly numerate with experience analysing a range of data (student, staff, financial).
• Experience using different technological platforms and systems to manipulate and analyse large, complex datasets.
• Knowledge of designing and creating data visualisations and dashboards.

Please note: This role is only open to redeployees at City St George's. Applications from individuals who are not redeployees will not be considered at this time.

To apply, please email your CV and cover letter to [e-mail] with the job title and reference number, demonstrating how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification.

City St George's offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George's, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors. We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. City St George's operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

Where a hybrid working arrangement can be accommodated, it is expected that colleagues will spend the majority (at least 60%) of their usual working time on campus each week. Specific details will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate. A hybrid working arrangement will not detract from any comprehensive induction, that will include relevant on-site activities. Regardless of where colleagues are working, City St George's, University of London's premises will be their primary and contractual place of work.