Data Analyst (Data Collection) in Leeds

Division: Data, Technology and Innovation

Department: Data Strategy and Services

Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £43,100 to £53,700 and London from £47,300 to £59,000 per annum.

Role responsibilities:

• Build effective working relationships with stakeholders across the FCA to support alignment with data collection best practice, while applying appropriate challenge.
• Evaluate data collection proposals to assess quality, value, proportionality, and risk, while providing constructive feedback to enhance outcomes.
• Develop clear, reusable data collection processes, documentation, and templates to enable consistent and scalable self‑service approaches.
• Apply analytical thinking to identify and assess issues in data collection design, improving data quality, consistency, and decision making.
• Use data tools and techniques including SQL, Python, and visualisation tools to validate and interrogate datasets, ensuring accuracy and integrity.
• Identify data issues and implement reproducible analytical approaches to support consistent and reliable management information reporting.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of end‑to‑end data collection processes by identifying opportunities to enhance tools, processes and reporting capabilities.
• Provide clear guidance within established frameworks, promoting best practice across the FCA to improve data collection approaches.

Minimum skills required:

• Experience translating business or regulatory needs into structured processes and solutions, applying data or business analysis techniques where appropriate.
• Proven experience working with data to investigate issues, produce clear reporting, identify risk and opportunities for improvement, with a strong understanding of how data is collected, managed and used.
• Experience in effectively communicating with and engaging stakeholders, with the ability to support and influence outcomes, as well as to explain technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.

Essential skills:

• Experience with data collection and management information reporting, delivering clear outputs aligned to reporting requirements.
• Contributed to the development and improvement of processes, documentation and standardised approaches, enhancing consistency and efficiency.
• Demonstrated high levels of accuracy and attention to detail in analysing, producing and quality‑assuring outputs.
• Ability to understand and document data requirements, including user needs, data needs, processes and flows.
• Knowledge of Financial Services Regulation, including regulatory reporting and compliance context.
• Intermediate proficiency, or clear ability to develop proficiency, in SQL, Python and data visualisation tools such as Tableau, to support data interrogation and reporting.
• Familiarity with workflow and delivery tools such as JIRA for task tracking, as well as familiarity with AI productivity tools, including responsible use of Copilot or similar for drafting and automation.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors).
• Non‑contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary.
• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance.
• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually.
• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle.