Senior Planning and Assurance Analyst

City St George's, University of London; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational institution seeks a Senior Planning and Assurance Analyst to support statutory assurance and league table submissions. The successful candidate will analyze and validate statutory returns, optimize processes, and produce dashboards using Tableau. Ideal candidates should have strong analytical skills, experience with complex datasets, and knowledge of compliance in Higher Education. This role includes a sector-leading salary and a hybrid working arrangement.

Benefits

Sector-leading salary

Pension scheme

Benefits including staff training

Qualifications

• Experience with statutory Higher Education returns and compliance.
• Ability to analyze various data types for decision making.
• Knowledge of different technological platforms for data manipulation.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and validate statutory returns for accuracy.
• Optimize and submit information for league tables.
• Produce dashboards on the university's Tableau platform.

Skills

Data analysis

Statistical knowledge

Data visualization

Strong numeracy

Experience with dashboards

Tools

Tableau

Database management systems

Job description

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.

Background

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 directorates activities include strategy formation and deployment, academic and financial planning, business intelligence, student management information, statutory assurance, performance monitoring, benchmarking, and league tables analysis.

Responsibilities

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.

Person Specification

Candidates will have good knowledge of how statutory Higher Education returns are used for compliance and reputational purposes, including their use in league tables. You will be highly numerate with experience of analysing a range of different types of data (student / staff / financial) and influencing organisational decision making. You will have experience of using different technological platforms and systems to manipulate and analyse large, complex datasets as well as knowledge of designing and creating data visualisations and dashboards.

Additional Information

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.

Closing date: 8th February 2026 at 11:59pm

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.

The University of business, practice and the professions