Lead Data Analyst

About the Role

Join us at an exciting time as we embark on our data transformation journey, helping shape a data-driven future of data here at Newcastle Building Society. Seen as a key role to the success of this, the Lead Data Analyst, you’ll play an integral role in ensuring our Data Platform and Data Products contain accurate & verifiable data that is consistent across all our Functional Domains. You’ll seek to understand user problems & business processes that the Products relate to and ensure accuracy & validity of our outputs, whilst interpreting underlying data sets to drive business decisions.

Ensuring data quality and accuracy along the value chain will be a core element of the role, as will ensuring user requirements we capture are technically viable, and the outcomes we create are observable, discoverable and accurate reflections of business processes and needs. You’ll maintain a strong connection to our Group purpose of ‘connecting our communities with a better financial future’ and work in collaboration with the wider Groups’ management community. You will embrace & promote our culture that is focused on being creative, courageous, collaborative, efficient and accountable.

About You

As an experienced Lead Data Analyst, you’ll be proficient in Excel, SQL and querying languages to interrogate data sets, with strong analytical skills and an understanding of statistical analysis. The ability to present complex data insights in a clear and understandable manner to technical and non-technical stakeholders is essential for the role, as is the ability to develop strong interpersonal connections to collaborate with both the Data team and across functional domains. An understanding of data warehousing concepts and tools, including data lakehouse is essential, as is the ability to comprehend data engineering principles such as ETL processes and data integrations techniques. Experience with R or Python would be beneficial, but is not essential for the role.

About Us

The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities. The Group provides traditional financial services, helping people own their own home, plan and manage their finances and operate a 32-branch network across the North-East, North-West, Cumbria and Yorkshire. Our Strategic Solutions subsidiary owns the UK’s leading savings management platform and provides managed technology services to new challenger banks and other established providers.

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.

What do you get in return?

• Financial Corporate bonus scheme (on target 10%, up to a maximum 15%)
• Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
• Annual performance related pay reviews
• Colleague mortgage scheme
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
• Access to our financial advisers
• Access to a range of high street and online discounts

Work/Life Balance

• A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions
• 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
• The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday
• Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based)
• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood

Health and Wellbeing

• Private medical insurance
• Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme
• Access to an employee assistance programme
• Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gyms
• Two paid volunteering days each year
• Cycle to work scheme

Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy.

Company: Newcastle Building Society

Why work here?

People are the focus of absolutely everything we do. We believe in people, we care deeply about their hopes, their dreams and their wellbeing. And that applies equally to our customers, our communities and our colleagues – which means you, if you choose to work here. It’s important to us that you know if you join us we will welcome you, respect you, encourage you and help you to achieve your goals.