Data Analyst in East Grinstead

We’re an award-winning, market-leading 3PL specialising in high-quality order fulfilment and delivery services. ILG customers are premium brands, many in the beauty, fashion and wellbeing sectors. Our mission is to help them succeed. ILG is a people business - we invest in training and development, recognising and rewarding our people’s achievements and creating opportunities for them to progress within our business. So, if you want to develop an exciting career, learn from a friendly team and realise your full potential in a fast-growing company, this is the role for you.

The Data Analyst role provides support to the finance function ensuring shipment data is accurately recorded in our systems. It requires manipulation of large volumes of data, investigation of variances by way of exception reporting resulting in corrective action being taken. You will be responsible for ensuring data is processed and corrected on a weekly basis whilst identifying trends, highlighting process improvements and working as part of a larger finance function, providing support and leadership to the rest of the finance support team and in other areas as required.

Key responsibilities

• Importing and manipulating large volumes of carrier data, and investigating variances arising between invoiced charges and accruals within our internal systems.
• Validation of carrier charges against agreed tariffs and taking corrective actions where appropriate to ensure cost accruals and pricing to the customer is correctly stated.
• Supervising the finance support team to ensure the above is achieved as a collective target, managing workload of the team and rolling out new processes as required.
• Supporting the wider finance team on ad hoc projects, administration and requests.
• Participating actively in continuous process improvement projects, seeking ways to develop current working processes.
• Providing management information where requested.

What we are looking for

• Strong working knowledge of Excel, including functions such as lookups, pivot tables and if statements.
• Strong experience of manipulating data, reporting and problem solving in Excel.
• Demonstrable experience of high levels of accuracy and attention to detail.
• An effective problem solver who enjoys seeing tasks through to completion.
• Enjoys working in a process driven environment and becoming an expert in their field.
• Ability to prioritise, manage own workload and proven experience of working to tight deadlines.
• Able to work successfully as a team leader and as part of a team.
• Knowledge of the logistics industry, reconciliation and previous experience dealing with couriers and industry suppliers is desirable but not essential.

Benefits

• Discretionary company bonus scheme.
• Following successful probation period opportunity for hybrid working in line with ILG policy up to 50/50 remote / office working.
• Pension, Life Assurance, Healthshield Cash Plan and Discount Perks.
• 22 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays) increasing to 25 days after 2 complete holiday years, with the option to buy/sell holiday.
• Free on-site parking, with electric car charging at certain locations.
• Range of employee awards.
• Employee assistance programme to promote mental health wellbeing.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.

Job Application Requirements

• Right to Work in the UK & Basic DBS Check – You must have the legal right to work in the UK, (we are not able to sponsor you). If successful, you will also need to pass a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check before starting employment.
• References – We reserve the right to request two or more references, to cover the past five years of your employment history. Please ensure you can provide accurate contact details for each of your referees.
• English Language – You must be able to work in English; enough to fully understand spoken and written work instructions, follow health and safety guidance and participate in discussions with your manager or colleagues.