Senior Data Analyst in Cupar

This role offers the chance to play a key part in shaping the future of pensions by turning complex evidence into clear insights that guide TPR’s regulatory strategy, policy development and day‑to‑day decisions. You’ll wrangle, analyse and interpret data, helping colleagues understand emerging risks, policy impacts and where to focus attention to protect savers. Working closely with teams across TPR, you’ll produce a range of analytical outputs tailored to different audiences, ensuring evidence is accessible, meaningful and easy to act on. You’ll bring expert skills in tools such as R, Python, and PowerBI while staying up to date with new analytical approaches across the regulatory and financial sectors. Collaboration, learning and continuous improvement are central to the role, with opportunities to deepen your technical expertise and contribute to shared understanding across the organisation. Through this work, you’ll help ensure TPR’s decisions are grounded in robust analysis and focused on delivering better outcomes for millions of pension savers.

In addition, you will own and lead the production of a TPR official statistics publication, ensuring it meets the highest standards of quality and transparency. You will proactively identify areas where further analysis is needed, including evidence gaps, and share results, recommendations and proposed mitigations across TPR. You will also be responsible for the technical review and assurance of statistical and modelling work carried out by other analysts, ensuring accuracy, rigour and consistency.

This role is ideal for someone who:

• Thrives on turning complex information into clear, meaningful insights that help others make confident, evidence‑based decisions.
• Enjoys working collaboratively, building strong relationships and influencing through evidence.
• Is naturally curious, proactive and motivated to spot opportunities for deeper analysis or improved understanding.
• Takes pride in producing high quality, accurate work and feels comfortable owning responsibility.
• Values continuous learning, staying up to date with new tools and techniques, and contributing to a culture of shared expertise.
• Can use independent judgement to determine appropriate levels of analytical rigor relative to the task at hand.
• Is able to work at pace whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.

The role criteria:

• Expert proficiency in statistical and analytical software, including either R or Python – Skills in PowerBI, Tableau and SQL are also advantageous.
• Expert/practitioner knowledge of statistical modelling, time series analysis, and forecasting.
• Expert experience of evaluating data sources for suitability, reliability & accuracy; and extracting data from complex data warehouses.
• Practitioner level communication of complex analytics in a clear and accurate manner; translating this into business needs and explaining its relevance.
• Strong knowledge and prior application of the UK Code for Official Statistics, and implementation of robust standards and quality assurance procedures in analytics.
• Practitioner level knowledge of Git, AzureDevOps, and AGILE or Dev/DataOps workflow methodologies.

The Strategy, Policy, and Analysis directorate plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of the pensions market by developing a regulatory framework that enables market innovation, and for strategic development and implementation right across TPR. As our creative engine, it brings together strategy, policy, economics, external risk, and analysis, and user insights generated from our colleagues in Compliance & Enforcement Group and Market Oversight, as well as external sources, to evolve our regulatory framework and best direct our resources towards mitigating risks and delivering good saver outcomes.

TPR offers genuine opportunities for learning and development, a values‑led, inclusive environment, hybrid working and flexible shift patterns, and a vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Mental Health, Women’s).

We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, a 35 hour working week (full‑time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.

TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, and we prioritise our people's growth and well‑being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, they are over two floors of a shared building facility and when designed in 2023 we followed the government’s workplace design guide to ensure accessibility by design was achieved for our section.

With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision‑making for positive saver outcomes. We’re committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment where everyone can thrive; understanding the link between the work we do and its positive impact on society.

To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications. Current TPR employees who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application. We welcome applications on a part‑time and job share basis.

If you are shortlisted for interview, we’ll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application however due to the large volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria will be offered an interview. Please note that if we receive a high volume of Disability Confident applicants, we reserve the right to offer an interview to those who best meet the essential criteria.

TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, enabling our people to feel supported, represented and do their best work. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with TPR.

Please visit our website to find out what it is like to work at TPR, our culture, interview process and our commitment to our employees. If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, email.